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Biden is hitting Putin indirectly in the fight against corruption. PHOTO: Reuters
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It becomes the core of their foreign security policy, Joe Biden attacks Putin with this priority
The United States is making the fight against corruption around the world a key task of its foreign policy in the field of national security, said in a memorandum signed by President Joe Biden, CNBC reported.
The efforts of US federal agencies will be largely directed against corruption and financial crime.
The Daily Mail reports that Biden is indirectly attacking Putin, vowing to fight corruption, which is eating away at democracy from within and increasingly
becomes
in arms,
used by
authoritarian
countries
for undermining democratic institutions, ”the document said.
“We will attack tax havens and illegal funding, which increase inequality, provide funds for terrorism and generate dangerous foreign influence,” the memorandum said.
Particular attention will be paid to encryption and cybersecurity. National intelligence and the CIA will also be part of efforts to identify and uncover corruption and respond adequately to it, a senior US spokesman told Voice of America.
Among the measures, an important place is given to the modernization of the existing anti-corruption legislation. This will be done to give more opportunities for
fight with
criminal gangs,
using
cryptocurrencies
and other new ones
technologies
“We see cryptocurrency as a way of financial machinations, without in any way intending to limit new technologies,” a spokesman for the administration told CNBC. Measures will be taken against the secret offshore operations of some American business players, as well as against the use of anonymous companies to evade taxes.
It is noted that the anti-corruption policy is part of Biden’s foreign policy agenda, designed to act globally in the interests of the middle class.
Probably in this context, the last episode of this week should be considered, in which the United States sanctioned 6 Bulgarians for corruption, as three of them – Vasil Bozhkov, Delyan Peevski and Ilko Zhelyazkov, came under the Magnitsky law. It envisions not only a ban on entry, but also the freezing of their assets on American territory.
The memorandum commits the US government
within 200 days
to provide
of the White House
report with
recommendations
how the United States will be able to make better use of its own resources, as well as partner with its allies in the fight against corruption.
At the same time, the media recall that Biden’s son, Hunter, admitted in April that he could get a high-paying job at the Ukrainian gas processing company Burisma thanks to his name.
According to White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, as part of her European tour next week, the US president will discuss his advocacy of democracy against autocracy in his homeland. in the United States and around the world.
“We have always felt stronger when we work with our friends and allies,” Psaki said. During his 7-day overseas trip, Joe Biden will meet with G7 leaders, NATO and EU leaders. During these talks, Psaki said, they would talk about “the problematic actions of some countries with which we disagree, including Russia and China.”
In April, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on a number of Russian individuals and legal entities
intervention in
choose and
the hacker
attack against
the government
computer
network
Prior to their June 16 meeting in Geneva, Biden took a firm stand against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
On Wednesday, he did not rule out retaliation against Russia over a series of hacking attacks on US companies, the latest of which was against the world’s largest meat processor. Hacking attacks suspected by Russians will be among the important topics at the bilateral summit, Psaki said.
“President Biden certainly thinks that President Putin and the Russian government can stop and prevent this type of attack,” the White House spokeswoman added. She said the attacks had shown how important cybersecurity was to American business.
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