Who really owns real estate leased by the U.S. government? / Deutsche Bank fined $630m for $10bn Russia mirror trading scheme / Congress moves to repeal key extractives transparency law this week

Kleptocrats exploit EB-5 visas / Trump aide talks investment with sanctioned firm / Putin’s pal wins $285m Crimea railway contract

Casey Michel talks to Aaron Bornstein about how the West can use a war-chest of frozen bribery funds to help the victims of kleptocracy.

Leading stories on kleptocracies and their enablers…

Trump appears on Kremlin propaganda network, Ukraine’s e-declarations system crippled, and senior Australian politician resigns over Chinese firm’s payments

Ilya Zaslavskiy talks Putin’s kleptocracy and KI at the Spy Museum, Biden affirms U.S. support for NATO in Baltics, and Poroshenko praises military on Ukraine’s Independence Day

Manafort denies Ukraine payments, Ukraine journalists under fire, Putin as Russia’s “solitary man,” and Kazakhstan’s PM trolled on Twitter

The week’s leading news and features about kleptocracy and its enablers

DC PR firms profit as South Sudan slides back to war, China invests in Ukraine, Shuvalov’s wife uses $62m jet to transport corgis, and Trump named in Russian mobster’s tax scam

Kleptocracy in Central Asia, China moves to lead global anti-graft efforts, and sports minister implicated in Russia doping scandal