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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums@USTreasury rolls out its biggest ever package of corruption sanctions (65 people/entities), includi
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Josh Rudolph
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Jun 2, 2021
Wow@USTreasury rolls out its biggest ever package of corruption sanctions (65 people/entities), including Bulgaria's richest oligarch (& most infamous gangster) and a media tycoon investigated by the OCCRP (& his front man) and all their companies. 👏👏👏 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0208



Josh Rudolph
@JoshRudes
So now that he's sanctioned for bribery and influence peddling, if Delyan Peevski demands that his D.C. lobbyists at BGR Group repay the $180k he gave them since the November election to work out "issues in the US," they wouldn't even be allowed to oblige.
I also liked the bombshell revelation that Vassil Bojkov plans to bribe Bulgarians to create a channel for the Kremlin to influence the Bulgarian gov't. Now that Bojkov's new political party (Bulgarian Summer) is sanctioned, how will Russia support it? Winter has come for Bojkov.
Josh Rudolph
@JoshRudes
But the best part of the release is the overall commitment to targeting corruption.
Today's words and actions from @USTreasury OFAC are a strong way to say happy #UNGASS2021 week.
Read more below about how the fight against corruption needs economists.
The Fight Against Corruption Needs Economists
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Budi
(15,325 posts)1. WOW & Big Kudos!
Wonder of Jared connects to Bojkov, hiding out in Duba, UAE evading Bulgarian extradition.
Those fkers are all connected with a direct line from tRump to Putin.
And with Manafort conspicuously installed as tRump's 2016 mgr, it's one big organized criminal network.
Semion Mogelevich was Vladimer Putin's mob boss.
The USA was the big prize.
We need a graph connecting the crime org.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. Impressive Biden Administration