News
The net is closing around a duo of fugitive oligarchs and their kin accused of laundering Kazakh money in high-end U.S. real estate — including Trump Organization properties.
The Federal Reserve fined Deutsche Bank AG $41 million for “unsafe and unsound” anti-money-laundering practices.
One of President Trump’s closest confidants, his personal lawyer, has now become a focus of the expanding congressional investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 campaign.
A Moscow court has ruled in favor of Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanovin his defamation lawsuit against opposition politician and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
Nigerian lawmakers passed a bill aimed at cracking down on money laundering by urging foreign countries where currency crooks are hiding to cooperate in prosecuting them.
Features
“Whatever the merits of the [EB-5 visa] program as a matter of public policy, one aspect of the program that has not received as much attention is its potential for abuse by kleptocracy or other fraud fugitives overseas to seek a safe harbor in the United States.”
-Forbes China on the EB-5 Visa Program
An American Russia scholar on why he doesn’t believe the New York Times, doesn’t think the DNC was hacked, and just wants the U.S. and Russia to get along.
Meduza and Transparency International Russia examine the children of Russian oligarchs in a new infographic. For more information on some of these oligarchs, be sure to check out our Archive. (in Russian)
