Record asset seizure: Authorities confiscated $7.6 billion in holdings tied to Vadim Moshkovich, the largest nationalization in recent years.

Part of wider campaign: The Kremlin has transferred an estimated $89.7 billion in private assets to state control since the Ukraine war began.

Elite on alert: Billionaires are showing loyalty to avoid similar fates, with some making large voluntary contributions to the state budget.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

with some making large voluntary contributions to the state budget

In the US, we call these campaign contributions.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Trump has gotten more brazen. Buy his cryptoscam, pay to build his ballroom, give his wife a sweetheart movie deal, the list goes on and on. And yeah, then there's the IRS tax audit immunity that would allow him and associated people to steal an estimated $100 million in forgone taxes. Truly a man who looked at the Russian kleptocracy and said "I want some of that."

  • source
  • parent