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Day 135 📌 The size of mass graves in the 🇷🇺-occupied village of Stary Krym near #Mariupol has doubled compared to the beginning of May, as the occupiers began to dismantle the rubble of multi-story buildings damaged & destroyed by the 🇷🇺 army. More ⬇️sharethetruths.org/2022/07/08/war…
There may be up to a hundred dead local residents in each of the destroyed multi-story residential houses in #Mariupol. Most often, the bodies are taken to the Stary Krym, where the closest to Mariupol is a cemetery with places of mass burials.
🇷🇺 forces Ukrainians, who want to leave the occupied territories & to escape the shelling through the territory of #Crimea, to sign falsified documents about alleged ‘crimes’ of the Ukrainian Armed Force, says @T_Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of 🇺🇦 in Crimea.
The fossil fuel industry is not just in terminal decline; it's also corrupt. #Vitol's settlement w/the Dep't of Justice over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act #FCPA is an important reminder that transparency & disclosure alone aren't enough to prevent abuse. Thread:
Full disclosure (pun intended): I wrote a lengthly law review article about this topic a decade ago. See "Transparency & the Natural Resource Curse: Examining the New Extraterritorial Information Forcing Rules in the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… /2
The FCPA is an extraterritorial criminal statute that makes it illegal for US firms to bribe foreign officials. Congress passed it in 1977 in response to genuinely outrageous behavior by Lockheed. Notably, until 2010 or so, the US was alone in criminalizing foreign bribes. /3
