Hunting for billionaires-corders: in the United States arrested $ 1 billion of assets of the Russian Federation

For example, the previous package was about Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov's head and even the head of the Artek camp in Crimea. CBSnews has learned about the details of the US lawyers and investigators. Some of the assets arrested by US government officials will be used to assist Ukraine in the war with Russia, according to CBSnews. To do this, Congress has already accepted some changes in the legislation to make such actions possible. Monaco explained that $ 1 billion.

- This property of the oligarchs of the Russian Federation, arrested exclusively in the United States. But measures are underway to identify and arrest property in other countries on the planet. In particular, the official listed where the search engines went: such actions show the Russians that they will not be able to hide money if they are sought to impose sanctions. "We have shown that there is no room to hide," said Lisa Monaco. The US prosecutor manages the Kleptocapture special office.

Office staff aim to identify property that they try to hide the Russian rich. At the same time, they actively work with international partners. They also use different legislation points for legal action. This will get the property in the most exotic places: journalists have also received a comment from the Transparency International representative Mary Martini. The woman told why it is so difficult to identify Russian assets.

Method 1 - The sequence of Martini companies explained that it is easy to find some big private property, such as a yacht or house. However, it is much more difficult to prove who exactly owns it. For example, Russians use the sequence of companies to hide the true owner. For example, a yacht company belongs to the second company in another country, and in turn belongs to the third company. Investigators go through this sequence to understand who owns the property.

Method 2 is another way to throw sanctions - trust companies. These companies are private and are not obliged to disclose the details of their activities to government officials, - explained Martini's peculiarities of US law. But the arrests still impose, as if carefully the ends. For example, the US Department of Finance still arrested the Gulfstream on $ 60 million. and Boeing aircraft for $ 350 million, which belonged to the oligarch Roman Abramovich (it is still not under US sanctions).

The reason for arrest - court documents for the smart owners. Method 3 - Sanctions for trade in certain goods to make sanctions more preschool for the Russian Federation, restrictions on aircraft, spare parts for aircraft, certain American technologies have been imposed. When they made the appropriate decision, they warned entrepreneurs - it is not necessary to cooperate with the government, which began the invading war.

Method 4 - Changes in US laws officials have another problem by hunting Russian assets, Martini said. According to her, the Russians hid money in the United States: "The US was considered a very long, very attractive place for those who wanted to remain anonymous. " However, they made some changes to the laws, and now it has become impossible to hide the ultimate beneficiary. The investigator noted that in the United States information about corporate owners is in a closed register.

It has a limited number of persons - banks and law enforcement. However, despite this drawback, she is convinced that the Russians will continue to lose their west. "We hope that this will at least facilitate the work of the authorities on the imposition of sanctions or court prosecution of persons involved in criminal activity," - summed up the investigator Martini. We remind that on August 31, Chechnya Kadyrov responded to sanctions imposed on his family.