@Thebratdragon @thecommongreen and the government listens to the City.

Because after all, it's the City that makes the wealth, isn't it?

...Isn't it?

#KleptoCapture
#Kleptocracy

@iandunt.bsky.social Why should there be any cap at all on Electoral Commission fines? No matter how much they are, offshore black money has enough to make them just part of the acceptable cost of buying governments.

#KleptoCapture

The task force had coordinated investigations across agencies, leading to high-profile seizures of luxury yachts, real estate & private jets. The #DOJ recently established a task force with a similar structure to focus on Hamas, according to Andrew Adams, the former head of #KleptoCapture.

The DOJ declined to comment on the closure of the task force.

#Trump #Russia #PutinsPuppet #complicit

A #State Dept spox said that the delisting was “independent from our ongoing efforts to advance a negotiated end to the war,” but that it was “unable to comment on the specifics of this delisting.”

In Feb, the #DOJ shuttered the #KleptoCapture task force, a unit formed in 2022 under the #Biden admin to identify & seize assets belonging to #RussianOligarchs around the world who were under #sanctions.

#Trump #Russia #PutinsPuppet #complicit

Trump's Justice Department ends Biden-era task force aimed at seizing assets of Russian oligarchs

The Trump administration's Justice Department has disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as a means to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. The move to disband Task Force KleptoCapture is one of several moves undertaken by the Justice Department under the new leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi that presage a different approach toward Russia and national security issues. The department also ended the Foreign Influence Task Force, which was established in the first Trump administration to police influence campaigns staged by Russia and other nations aimed at sowing discord, undermining democracy and spreading disinformation.

AP News

@nullkitty

the #JusticeDepartment is shutting down its #kleptocracy initiative that’s recovered billions of dollars from corrupt overseas officials since 2010 and the #KleptoCapture task force, which has led efforts to confiscate yachts, planes and real estate from rich Russians sanctioned over the war in Ukraine.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondi-scales-back-us-justice-department-white-collar-enforcement

#PamBondi #DOJ #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

Bondi Scales Back US Justice Department White Collar Enforcement

The Justice Department is scaling back enforcement of laws governing foreign agent registration and bribes of foreign officials, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced.

New actions by Task Force KleptoCapture ahead of 2nd anniversary of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, including:

Andrey Kostin indicted

Sergey Kurchenko indicted

Feliks Medvedev pled guilty in $ laundering case

Vladislav Osipov superseding indictment

#Russia #RussianOligarch #russianinvasion #KleptoCapture

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/task-force-kleptocapture-announces-array-new-charges-arrests-and-forfeiture-proceedings

Task Force KleptoCapture Announces Array of New Charges, Arrests, and Forfeiture Proceedings in Advance of Second Anniversary of Illegal Invasion of Ukraine

From the outset of Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Department of Justice has prioritized enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed alongside our global partners.

DOJ Seeks to Give Seized Russian Asset Proceeds to Ukraine - Political IQ

The Department of Justice has asked Congress to expand its authority to give proceeds from seized Russian assets to Ukraine.

Political IQ

Interesting meeting with 🇺🇸 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) on the US Asset Seizure for #Ukraine Reconstruction Act. We also discussed the necessity for the 🇪🇺 Freeze and Seize and 🇺🇸 #KleptoCapture Task Force to work hand in hand and share joint expertise @USAmbEU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/dreynders/status/1627736301611978759

Didier Reynders (@dreynders)

Interesting meeting with 🇺🇸 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) on the US Asset Seizure for #Ukraine Reconstruction Act. We also discussed the necessity for the 🇪🇺 Freeze and Seize and 🇺🇸 #KleptoCapture Task Force to work hand in hand and share joint expertise @USAmbEU

Nitter

🔴 LIVE now: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-legal-affairs_20220614-1430-COMMITTEE-JURI #UkraineWar #Reparations #Reconstruction #Ukraine @EP_Legal
RT @SLagodinsky: We have to talk about reparations & reconstruction in #Ukraine. At today’s hearing in @EP_Legal, I am glad to welcome Irina Mudra, Vice-Minister for Justice Affairs of Ukraine, Peter Csonka, DG JUST, & Andrew Adams US #KleptoCapture Tas…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/SLagodinsky/status/1536703608829378563

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