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Mar 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: What @a_cormier_ @jtemplon @scottpham & I reported in 2 stories over the past week related to the ways Russian oligarchs have gamed the system of financial regulations to hide their wealth FinCEN has just issued a warning about ImageImageImage
Our story last week
buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
And the second report

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
We have been reporting on these systemic institutional failures for more than 3 years

#FinCENFiles

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Mar 3
The White House just announced sanctions against more Russian oligarchs & their family members, including several @BuzzFeedNews has reported on over the past week and in the #FinCENFiles citing secret Treasury Dept docs.

Alisher Usmanov
Boris, Arkady & Roman Rotenberg Image
buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…

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FinCEN Files: Sanctioned Putin associate ‘laundered millions’ through Barclays

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Feb 25
Documents: Promsvyazbank was a conduit in some of the biggest money laundering operations in history.

Examiners at major Western financial institutions had flagged “suspicious” transactions coming out of Promsvyazbank as long ago as 2011.
buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon… via @buzzfeed
The documents show how PSB provided a conduit for anonymous shell companies to participate in global money laundering schemes and how it gave members of Putin’s inner circle unfettered access to the American financial system.

Among the most prominent were the Rotenberg family.
The US government first sanctioned Arkady Rotenberg, and others, in 2014 for their alleged role in the annexation of Crimea, a peninsula in southern Ukraine.
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Feb 20
Shadowy money built steel empire — with bank's help

Deutsche was warned about highly suspicious money involving Ihor Kolomoisky — but moved it anyway

post-gazette.com/news/crime-cou… @MikeSallah7
"Not until an effort by the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press and BuzzFeed News to press for data in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2020 did the judge agree last month to unseal records of the transfer summaries"
post-gazette.com/news/crime-cou…
A huge thank you to @katie_rcfp @Jen_A_Nelson & @rcfp for their painstaking legal work over the past 2 years on behalf of @BuzzFeedNews that led to the unsealing of these explosive court documents. This was part of our #FinCENFiles reporting
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Feb 12
🧵I'd like to separate the content revealed in this disclosure and explain why this news from the Mueller is important because I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about the work I do on the #FOIA front
With @mvtopic, we challenged a slew of redactions in the Mueller report starting in 2019 ago and a federal judge twice ruled that DOJ had violated the FOIA by improperly invoking an exemption and ordered the material released
We also challenged DOJ's use of privacy exemptions that protected the identities of some people Mueller didn't charge, arguing that their privacy rights were diminished b/c of prior govt disclosures. The district judge ruled in favor of the govt & we appealed to the DC Circuit
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Feb 11
🚨BREAKING: @BuzzFeedNews & I just got more passages unredacted from Mueller report

It reveals for 1st time that Mueller declined to charge Donald Trump Jr with a computer crime for accessing a website using a PW he got from Wikileaks & Stone for hacking
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
These new unredacted passages follows our lengthy legal battle against the Justice Department and our partial victory at the DC Circuit to unmask the identities of some people Mueller declined to charge.

Thank you to @mvtopic & his team for fighting this historic battle.
🚨Mueller's office also considered charging JD Gordon, the Trump campaign's director of national security
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Jan 25
BREAKING: Treasury Dept whistleblower Natalie May Edwards, our source whose brave disclosures exposed financial corruption on a global scale & formed the basis of our award-winning #FinCENFiles investigation, has just been released from federal prison
buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier…
May Edwards just told @a_cormier_, minutes after she was released from prison: “This chapter is officially closed. I will not be silenced anymore. My story will be told.”
buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier…
May (@3_Whistleblower)
served nearly five of her 6 month sentence.

Her sentence was unjust and unfair. Her disclosures have sparked AML reforms in the US and around the world.

I spoke with her a little while ago. I'm so relieved she's been released and is now with her family.
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