Valtteri Tamminen

To Evade Sanctions, the Kremlin Turns to a Convicted Money Launderer Ilan Shor claims his Russian sanctions evasion network, A7, has moved $86 billion. Here’s how—and what can be done to stop it.

Why would a bank hire a thief to run a payments company?

This was the question which I kept returning to while investigating the massive Russian sanctions evasion network, A7.

I think I worked it out. Here's me in @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-e...

October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

Putin Scraps Summit Over Lack of Attendance From Arab Leaders There simply weren’t enough Arab leaders saying ‘yes’ to warrant holding a summit. That’s what forced Russian President Vladimir Putin into a last-minute delay of an event he’d hoped would boost his s...

”…delay underscores that much of the Arab world is now more interested in building ties with Trump, who has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin’s refusal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine despite US diplomatic efforts.”

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How China Secretly Pays Iran for Oil and Avoids U.S. Sanctions A hidden funding conduit has deepened economic ties between the two U.S. rivals in defiance of Washington’s efforts to isolate Tehran.

Exclusive: U.S. sanctions make it nearly impossible to pay Iran for its oil. China has figured out how to do it anyway, in an arrangement that has largely been secret.

Excited to unveil the new @washingtonpost.com slogan:

"Democracy Dies in Darkness -
But Anything Dies When We JDAM it.
USA! USA! USA!"

Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship

This is so perfectly corrupt I’m almost impressed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...

"The Development Finance Corporation remains the best tool the United States has to deploy market-based solutions to address global challenges," writes the CSIS Americas Program.

Learn more about the DFC in the Americas: www.csis.org/analysis/ame...

The fact Ukraine still has an independence day in the 4th year of my 3 day war shows I remain a master strategist.
#деньнезалежності

US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision Singer B. Howard will join acts from Belarus, Cuba and Venezuela at event in Moscow.

The United States is taking part in Russia’s version of the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside a sizable number of dictatorships.

Referring to someone as an "OFAC-sanctioned timeshare fraudster" makes me laugh every time.
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Wonder how Ben and Jerrys feel about being aligned with Donald Trump over Ukraine.

Unconfirmed reports that, in addition to soldiers, missiles and howitzers, Russia is now importing ship launching expertise from North Korea.

New Russian navy ship Captain Ushakov capsized

Six Steps to Sanction Russia’s War Economy For months President Donald Trump has been attempting to stop the fighting in Ukraine, and he may meet with Vladimir Putin in the coming days to discuss the war’s end. While the White House prepares f...

New from me: Russia’s war economy is finally running out of road.

Here are six steps Trump should take to hasten that process—and generate the leverage he needs to force Putin to back down.

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for years I was baffled by what people were complaining about re "debanking" until I realized that it was just standard anti-money-laundering practice

OTD in 1975 USSR signed Helsinki Accords promising to respect borders & let countries join what orgs like they want.

As we, the self declared successor state, have *always* followed this, you can trust over a peace deal with Ukraine now.

Elite Russian university launches degree program on sanctions evasion The Higher School of Economics (HSE), a leading Russian institution, said the two-year course will focus on international corporate compliance and business ethics, and will be taught in both Russian a...

Wonder if they'll post a few syllabi for me to read...
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Join us next week for the OCCRP Briefing: The New Sanctions Evasion Playbook. Don’t forget to sign up us2.campaign-archive.com?u=8a7b7dd3a0...

a small black pug puppy is sitting on a wooden floor looking up at the camera . ALT: a small black pug puppy is sitting on a wooden floor looking up at the camera .

Sanctioning Russia is my love language!

Top Andorran Bankers Jailed over €70M Laundering Plot Andorran court imposes prison terms and fines on BPA execs who laundered millions for a Chinese businessman tied to organized crime.

Andorra’s top court sentenced 18 executives of Banca Privada d’Andorra to prison terms for laundering money in favor of a client in a complex case lasting 20 months.

Ex-CEO Joan Pau Miquel was sentenced to seven years in prison and a €30 million fine.

Sanctioned Russian’s Son Charged in Spanish Money Laundering Case Spanish court charges son of Russian defense official in major laundering probe after weekend arrest.

Dmitry Artyakov, the son of a top Russian defense official, has been charged by a Spanish judge with being “criminally responsible for the crime of organized crime” in addition to “money laundering,” according to court documents obtained by OCCRP.

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Interactive Brokers settles with OFAC for $11.8 million after disclosing 12,367 apparent violations across multiple sanctions programs. Definitely one of the longer enforcement notices and worth a read.
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NK TechLab Law Database - 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea NK TechLab, a new project of 38 North, will be creating and publishing data obtained from North ...

38 North's NK TechLab project obtained a database of North Korean laws updated through mid-2024. Learn more below:

‼️ Russia: “FT: Hundreds of Russia-linked trusts paralysed in Liechtenstein”

www.kommersant.ru/doc/7871105

Donald Trump lifts most US sanctions on Syria President’s executive order also reviews Damascus’s designation as state sponsor of terrorism

Trump lifts most US sanctions on Syria https://on.ft.com/3Gg1e8A

Putin Says Russia to Seek Defense Cuts Though It Depends on War President Vladimir Putin said Russia plans to cut defense spending, acknowledging growing strains on the budget even as he insisted that reductions would depend on winning his war in Ukraine.

“We plan to reduce spending and they [NATO] plan to increase it,” he said. “So who is acting aggressively?” V. Putin

Sorry, irony just went and jumped off the window🤣

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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.

In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.

1/n

A joke right? While Russia bombs Ukrainian cities, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio congratulates Russians on "Russia Day" and says the U.S. remains committed to a "bright future" for the Russian people — and seeks "mutually beneficial relations" with the Kremlin.

The US & Chinese trade negotiators have negotiated a handshake agreement to seek signoff to agree that a previously-agreed agreement is still their agreed upon agreement. (That agreement is not an agreement but a framework for seeking future agreements.) www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Compatriots or Covert Ops? How Russia Finances Influence Networks Abroad For over a decade, the Russian state-backed foundation Pravfond has operated under the radar, offering legal aid to “compatriots” living abroad. But newly uncovered internal documents tell a far more…

On June 5, an OCCRP Briefing will take you inside a cross-border investigation that reveals how a seemingly benevolent legal aid organization became an instrument of hybrid warfare.

Join investigative reporters as they unpack this covert network.

Exclusive: Europe to hand billions in frozen Russian cash to Western investors, sources say Euroclear plans to seize and redistribute about 3 billion euros of Russia's funds that are frozen at the Belgian clearing firm after Moscow grabbed investor cash in Russia.

So much for all the whinng that it is impossible to confiscate such assets.

Now, just hand over all the rest of the frozen Russian assets to Ukraine...

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