Fighting back: We live in an era of authoritarian influence, writes Thorsten Benner. How should democracies respond? (Foreign Affairs)
Anonymous companies: At a Helsinki Commission hearing on Russian disinformation yesterday, Molly McKew responded to Sen. Whitehouse’s question on U.S. shell firms: “The anonymous movement of money… into our system isn’t about buying real estate and yachts – it’s about buying us.”
Prevezon: When Natalia Veselnitskaya met Donald Trump Jr. last year, she was also representing a company ensnared in the ongoing U.S. criminal investigation into the $230 million fraud that killed Sergei Magnitsky. (Bloomberg)
Ethics: After a quiet change in the rules, White …read more
Source: Kleptocracy Initiative