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Alexei Ulyukayev, Russia’s economy minister, was arrested and charged with accepting a $2 million bribe from the sale of Bashneft shares to Rosneft. (Reuters)
A company linked to the Turkish government hired a lobbying firm owned by Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior Trump advisor. (Politico)
Ziad Takieddine has repeated claims that Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi gave Nicholas Sarkozy €50 million for his 2007 French presidential campaign. Sarkozy denies the accusation. (Guardian)
A villager who became a symbol of China’s dispossessed after murdering a local party boss has been executed. (WaPo)
Mossack Fonseca was fined $440,000 by the British Virgin Islands over compliance failures. (WSJ)
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Source: Kleptocracy Initiative
