The world's oligarchs have long known that the United States is a great place to stash their illicit wealth.
of the sanctions regime, were moored in jurisdictions outside Russia. Monaco, Hamburg, Saint Maarten, Nice, Panama, the Maldives, and Barcelona were all identified as locations where Russia’s oligarchs — many of whom accumulated vast fortunes following rapid privatization of Russian state-owned assets following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, in the 2000s, due to their political alignment with Putin — moored their nine-figure floating mansions.
There were attempts to sound the alarm about the U.S. national security risks incurred by weak anti-money laundering obligations on the private investment industry, many of which went unheeded. The report provided examples of Russian and Chinese attempts to access sensitive U.S. technology via private investment vehicles, opaque ownership by a Russian oligarch in a U.S. voting management firm, and “[a] leaked FBI intelligence bulletin included examples of illicit financial schemes using pooled investment vehicles involving Mexican drug cartels, Russian organized crime, and U.S. sanctioned countries.
Judging by the global network of yachts, luxury houses and apartments, and other expensive assets linked to oligarchs in Putin’s inner orbit, it’s worth looking back on the warnings about how welcoming the assets of oligarchs supports authoritarianism abroad and poses national security liabilities at home.
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