Russian sanctions: Biden admin must tighten, change rules to be taken seriously
Fox News
The effectiveness of the Biden administration’s sanctions regime has been mixed, and news of a flagrant attempt by Russia to evade these sanctions isn’t promising.
Chad Wolf is the executive director of the America First Policy Institute and former acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In January, the former head of FBI counterintelligence in New York City was arrested for violating U.S. sanctions laws by taking payments from a well-known Russian oligarch. This FBI official was paid to try and have an oligarch removed from the U.S. sanctions list through an elaborate scheme involving money funneled to him through multiple shell companies via forged purchase orders.
The Russian oligarch also avoided the sanctioning of his business, a Russian aluminum manufacturer, by divesting himself, on paper, of a controlling ownership stake in the company. But the fact that he had bribed a high-level U.S. intelligence and law enforcement official delegitimized this divestiture, which he made to close members of his family, amounting to little more than sleight of hand.
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