In the News
"US lawmakers are proposing legislation that would force trust companies, lawyers and other financial middlemen to investigate foreign clients seeking to move money and assets into the American financial system."
"The proposed law, known as the Enablers Act, would amend the 51-year-old Bank Secrecy Act by requiring the Treasury Department to create basic due diligence rules for American gatekeepers who facilitate the flow of foreign assets into the United States."
"The proposed law, known as the Enablers Act, would amend the 51-year-old Bank Secrecy Act, by requiring the Treasury Department to create basic due-diligence rules for American gatekeepers who facilitate the flow of foreign assets into the United States."
" Corruption is the fuel of human rights abuse and dictatorship and is the primary means by which dictators and their cronies influence government and society. I want to thank the large group of bipartisan colleagues who supported this amendment, many of whom are members of the Counter-Kleptocracy Caucus." - Congressman Steve Cohen
"В санкционном списке фигурируют, в частности, бизнесмены Роман Абрамович, Алишер Усманов и Олег Дерипаска, председатель «Роснефти» Игорь Сечин, глава «Газпрома» Алексей Миллер, гендиректор «Первого канала» Константин Эрнст, главный редактор RT Маргарита Симоньян, председатель Следственного комитета Александр Бастрыкин, директор ФСБ Александр Бортников, директор Росгвардии Виктор Золотов."
"While the Biden administration remains hesitant to sanction top Russian oligarchs involved in corruption and human rights abuses, the two co-chairs of the new Congressional Caucus against Foreign Corruption and Kleptocracy are hoping to change that."
"Two senators from the United States have recently introduced a bill that would counter abuse of Interpol in an effort to prevent cases like Mr. D’Aniello’s. Known as the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention (TRAP) Act, the bill would establish US priorities for responding to Interpol abuse and promote reform within Interpol," writes Alexis Martin.
"We write to join our colleagues with the U.S. office of Transparency International, the Transparency International Anticorruption Center in Armenia, Transparency International Malaysia, and Transparency International Ukraine in supporting the Countering Russian and Other Overseas Kleptocracy Act (the “CROOK Act”) and hope you will pass it into law."
"From our collective experience working and living around the world, we believe the Act would help expose and counteract authoritarian and kleptocratic regimes across the globe, and begin to appropriately address foreign corruption as a U.S. national security interest of the first order."