New focus
Justice Minister Bondi wants to dissolve US-Taskforce against Russian oligarchs
The bid administration had introduced the Taskforce at the beginning of the Ukraine War. The new US government thinks that the officials should target other criminals.
US Justice Minister Pam Bondi has ordered the ministry to dissolve a law enforcement unit to enforce sanctions against Russian oligarchs.
The employees working in the Taskforce “Kleptocapture” are to return to their former posts and the resources used to combat drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations are to be used. This emerges from a memorandum signed by Bondi, which according to media reports became public on Thursday (local time).
According to Trump’s instructions, Bondi wants to “complete the” complete elimination “of drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations, according to the document. “This strategy requires a fundamental change in the way of thinking and in the beginning,” said Bondi in the memo. Accordingly, the ministry of money laundering should also concentrate on activities of drug cartels and criminal organizations.
US-Taskforce should enforce Russia sanctions
After the beginning of the Russian attack war against Ukraine in 2022, the task force “Kleptocapture” was launched under the then US Justice Minister Merrick Garland in order to “take account of” corrupt Russian oligarchs “, as was in a message from the Ministry from the Time was called. The unit should therefore help to enforce the sanctions and export restrictions that the USA and other states had introduced in response to Russia’s attack.
“We will not leave anything unexpected to determine, arrest and pursue those who are criminal, whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue this unjust war,” said Garland at the time.
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Source: Stern
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