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Midweek Roundup: DOJ’s Russia Task Force Switches Targets, Britain Fines Julius Baer, and More

Task Force KleptoCapture, a unit that the U.S. Justice Department established this year to target illicit wealth from Russia amid the Kremlin-ordered invasion and occupation of Ukraine, is now pursuing cases against professional service providers who help Russian oligarchs evade sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the unit's director. More The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined the local subsidiary of Swiss private lender Julius Baer £18 million and banned three former bankers from working in the finance industry after finding that they handled corrupt payments to an employee of Russia's now bankrupt Yukos Group, Bloomberg reported. More The U.S....

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