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Manhattan real estate rife with dirty money, the West’s misguided Putin policy, and Syria provides illicit enrichment opportunities

Following recent tensions with the Kremlin and FSB raids, Mikhail Prokohorov is selling all his Russian assets. Yevgeny Prigozhin is suing Russian search engine Yandex over its refusal to remove unsubstantiated information, and has also filed lawsuits against Google and Mail.ru. Post-Brexit, the Kremlin may find it easier to persuade the EU to lift sanctions. Is Petro Poroshenko cultivating a…

Russia limits military spending, groups call on the Bulgarian government to protect reporters, and more heads will roll in China’s financial sector crackdown

A Russian media mogul is found dead in a D.C. hotel, a Ukraine minister is arrested for corruption, and a Chinese official’s death sentence is overturned

A Chinese controlled radio network is operating in the US, the US is a top safe haven for assets, and the man behind a $46 billion laundering scheme is detained

A former editor is ousted from the CCP, Ukraine detains an ally of Kolomoisky, and Poroshenko is now one of Ukraine’s wealthiest businessmen

A new documentary highlights the West’s role in facilitating kleptocracy, Ukraine launches a corruption case against former President Yanukovych, and Russia and China hold naval drills in the Sea of Japan

The U.S. Congress considers legislation to sanction kleptocrats, Moscow seeks to woo China into major gas deals, and Ukrainians hunt down the missing “golden loaf”

A respected anti-corruption agency calls unfettered lobbying a threat to European democracy, Clinton-era documents shed light on the rise of Russia’s oligarchs, and the Financial Times interviews China’s second-in-command on corruption and economics