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Mar 19, 9:45 pm
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Zakharova: US offers rewards for snitching and snitching
The United States is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about the assets of Russians from the list of sanctions. The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called it “a program to support whistleblowing and snitching”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on the US Treasury Department’s announcement of a reward for information about the assets of “Russian oligarchs”, said that the United States has launched a “program to support whistleblowing and snitching.”
March 16 US Treasury announced launching a program called the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program. Cash rewards will be available to those who provide information that will help seize or confiscate assets associated with corrupt foreign governments, including Russia’s. Speech goes for a fee of up to $5 million.
“Washington called on its citizens to report, where appropriate, all funds “obtained as a result of corrupt practices involving the government of the Russian Federation.” They promise financial rewards.” wrote Zakharov in Telegram.
The Telegraph learned about the creation by London of a service to search for “Putin’s assets”
The Ministry of Finance handed over to the representatives of Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and the European Commission a list of 50 people who are a priority target for the United States. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance made public the names of only 28 people from this list who fell under US sanctions. Among them are Russian President Vladimir Putin, director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, billionaire Oleg Deripaska ($3.8 billion according to
Forbes), the owner of the gold mining company Polyus Suleiman Kerimov, the head of VTB Andrey Kostin, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces – Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the main shareholder of Rossiya Bank Yuri Kovalchuk, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, the chairman of the board of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, businessmen Evgeny Prigozhin, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Chairman of the Board of Rosneft Igor Sechin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, member of the Board of Directors of NOVATEK and Sibur Gennady Timchenko (not included in the list of candidates for the new board of directors of NOVATEK), the founder and main shareholder of USM Alisher Usmanov, and others. The Financial Times wrote about an attempt by a “group of Russians” to sell real estate in New York.