(13 Mar 2023)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4423873

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Washington - 19 October 2021
1. FBI agents stand outside the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska during a raid
ANNOTATION:
US agencies are damaging Russia's economy to stop the Ukraine war by expanding financial penalties on facilitators of sanctions evasion.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington - 1 March 2023
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Adams, KleptoCapture Task Force Director: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"I think it can be quite effective to be sanctioning facilitators, and Treasury does in fact do that and has done that in the Russian program in particular. There are individuals who are going beyond money managers are in aviation services or maritime services who are essentially professional sanctions evasion brokers. And they have been listed to some extent. I think that can be a powerful tool. It's certainly one that in the Department of Justice's prioritization is at the top of the heap."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Washington - 23 January 2023
3. STILL A sign marks an entrance to the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Barcelona - 15 March 2022
4. Various of Valerie super yacht moored at shipyard
ANNOTATION: The US also wants to liquidate yachts and other property owned by Russian oligarchs where legally possible and turn it into cash to benefit Ukraine.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington - 1 March 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Adams, KleptoCapture Task Force Director: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"And we will not take assets that are not fully forfeited through judicial procedures and begin confiscating them without a legal basis. So the question of what you can do with a seized asset is very different from the question of what you can do with a fully forfeited asset. My focus, the task force's focus is on getting assets to be fully forfeited."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Washington - 20 September 2022
6. STILL Attorney General Merrick Garland and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin sign an MOU during a ceremony at the Department of Justice

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington - 1 March 2023
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Adams, KleptoCapture Task Force Director: ++COVERED++
"What this work is for is for attempting to offer some modest assistance to Ukraine through our forfeiture at work at the end of the day, and to plug holes in a global sanctions regime that has already had some success in slowing and frustrating the Russian war machine."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York - 1 September 2022
8. STILL Federal agents carry evidence boxes as they walk out of a Park Avenue high-rise linked to Viktor Vekselberg, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: St. Petersburg - 17 June 2022
9. STILL President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg speaks on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York - 1 September 2022
10. STILL Police stand inside the gated grounds of a home linked to Viktor Vekselberg
ANNOTATION: So far, more than $58 billion worth of sanctioned Russian assets have been blocked or frozen worldwide, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
STORYLINE:
The Biden Administration has initiated an aggressive new push to use punitive financial measures to inflict pain on the Russian economy in another effort to thwart the Kremlin invasion of Ukraine.

The case was coordinated through the KleptoCapture group.

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