lol, Wirecard fraudster Jan Marsalek met Pavel Durov in 2018 and funneled Libyan investors’ money into Telegram’s planned Toncoin sale before the SEC shut it down
The EU's No.3 in terms of pop & voting power throws its "heavyweight" behind a likely doomed "Plan B" that carries high debt burdens and requires unanimity. A major wrinkle for the elusive "reparations loan," less than a week before a crucial meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.
The European Union on Friday indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia, both with Moscow-friendly governments, can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
You'll be shocked to learn that another petty rivalry has struck Russia’s opposition in exile. Garry Kasparov has reportedly accused Vladimir Kara-Murza of using a treason sentence as a "PR stunt." Kara-Murza served 2+ years of a 25-year sentence before he was prisoner-swapped last year. In response to Kasparov, Kara-Murza is now leaving an antiwar committee where the two were members.
For today's newsletter, I look at a recent Mediazona investigation into the Russian soldiers who kill their own compatriots when home for R&R or stationed near the border. Some really brutal shit here. Especially disgusting: courts treat victims’ criticism of the war as a mitigating factor.
Russia's Central Bank is filing a lawsuit in Moscow's Arbitration Court against Euroclear, seeking compensation for losses incurred due to Euroclear's "unlawful actions" and "in light" of the European Commission's deliberations on the "reparations loan" seizure.
UK banks have pushed back against plans to use about £8bn in frozen Russian assets they hold, warning that the British government has not offered to indemnify them against potential retaliation by Moscow. "Significant legal risk if the assets were used to backstop zero-interest loans to Ukraine."
