All of the Putin tycoons must be scrutinized for sanctions. No escapes on their fancy yachts. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
“A good place to start is a list compiled by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, led by opposition leader Alexei @navalny, which named 35 business executives and top government officials, each of whom “actively participates in the oppression and corruption” of the Putin regime.
This was before the onslaught against Ukraine but is a useful guide. Some of those named by Mr. Navalny were on the sanctions list announced March 3 by the United States, including Igor Shuvalov, a former first deputy prime minister
who Mr. @navalny said had “significant assets abroad” and “was instrumental in creating the system of state corruption, which has come to dominate the country’s institutions.” Also on the latest U.S. list is oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who Navalny said is “one of the key enablers
and beneficiaries of the Kremlin’s kleptocracy.”
At the top of Mr. @navalny’s list was one of the richest of the Putin-era tycoons, Roman Abramovich, who has built a fortune based on oil and other businesses, and just announced plans to sell his Chelsea Football Club.
At the top of Mr. @navalny’s list was one of the richest of the Putin-era tycoons, Roman Abramovich, who has built a fortune based on oil and other businesses, and just announced plans to sell his Chelsea Football Club.
Mr.Abramovich has denied that he is close to Mr. Putin or done anything to merit sanctions. He is not named on U.S. and British sanctions lists. But any attempt to isolate Mr. Putin for his barbaric attack on Ukraine must examine every one of the tycoons, and their family members
and shell companies that have in the past been used to shield assets. As British financier and Putin critic @Billbrowder put it, speaking of the @navalny list, “You don’t get to be an oligarch unless you’re basically in cahoots with Putin.”
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