Diamonds and divorces: Are the oligarch sanctions working?
How 'pre-emptive' divorce might be an oligarch evasion strategy.
Russia's deputy defence minister, Timur Ivanov, was sanctioned by the EU last October. Forty days before that happened, his wife, the socialite Svetlana Maniovich, divorced him. The Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Russian non-profit organisation, received a trove of emails that seem to suggest this 'pre-emptive' divorce might have been an evasion strategy. So what was really going on?
Guests:
- Maria Pevchikh, investigator for the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
- Tom Keatinge, Director for the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: CNN, ABC News, European Council.
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