The Department of Justice is quietly unraveling a complex web of shell companies and middlemen used by Russian oligarchs, and President Vladimir Putin himself, as it accelerates efforts to seize assets belonging to the Kremlin's most wealthy and influential players, the Justice official charged with leading the team hunting the assets told CNN on Thursday.
Like other Russian oligarchs on the US sanctions list, Putin is a target for the Justice Department's corruption task force as it wages a global campaign against money-laundering Kremlin insiders in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "I can tell you nothing about what the US knows about any particular person, but he's certainly on the list," Andrew Adams, the head of the Justice Department's KleptoCapture task force, told CNN in an interview.
But that is the signal that I would look for in terms of the solidity and stability of Putin's grip on these people." "If they're saying it publicly, then that's, I think, all that we can ask them to do," he added.The US and its partners have rolled out a series of sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, targeting key institutions and individuals who Adams said he believes"the Kremlin expected would be off the table.
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