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Midweek Roundup: Scottish LPs Enabling Sanctions Evasion, Cyprus Confidential Fallout Begins, and More

Limited partnerships, or LPs, in Scotland and elsewhere in the U.K. have served as intermediaries in more than 600 exports of dual-use and prohibited goods to Russia during the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bellingcat reported. More U.K. and EU-blacklisted oligarch Roman Abramovich sold shares in a Russian advertising firm to Russian President Vladimir Putin's friends at an abnormally low price, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported, citing a cache of leaked records obtained as part of the "Cyprus Confidential" investigation. More A possible decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the government's ability to permanently seize assets could...

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