The US Department of Justice on February 22 announced a series of criminal and civil actions aimed at sanctioned Russian oligarchs and others accused of supporting the Kremlin and its military.
Source: The KleptoCapture task force at the US Department of Justice, designed to monitor compliance with sanctions in the country, writes “European truth”
Details: In New York, charges were made public against a Russian banker, the president of Russia’s second largest bank, VTB, Andrei Kostin, and two of his intermediaries living in the United States, who were arrested on February 22.
Kostin is accused in the States of participating in a scheme to circumvent sanctions and launder money to finance two superyachts and maintain a luxury home in Colorado.
An indictment was published in Washington against Russian Vladislav Osipov, who lives in Switzerland. He is accused of bank fraud related to the operation of the luxury yacht Tango, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
Osipova together with the Briton Richard Masters last year already charged for concealing Vekselberg’s ownership of this superyacht.
In the state of Florida, pro-Russian Ukrainian metallurgical magnate Sergei Kurchenko has been charged for attempting to evade sanctions, and they are also trying to confiscate two luxury real estate properties of the sanctioned Russian businessman Viktor Perevalov through the court.
After all, in Georgia earlier in February, Russian citizen Felix Medvedev pleaded guilty to facilitating the laundering of more than $150 million through bank accounts under his control.
KleptoCapture said it has obtained bench warrants, seizures and asset forfeitures of nearly $700 million over the past two years for violating U.S. sanctions, and has charged more than 70 people for violating sanctions and export controls.
Earlier it became known that the United States would hand over to Estonia 500 thousand dollars of confiscated Russian assetsto direct them to support Ukraine.
2024-02-22 19:57:07
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