@USTreasury rolls out its biggest ever package of corruption sanctions (65 people/entities), includi
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Josh Rudolph
@JoshRudes
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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.
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