Analysis: How Russian oligarchs are finding safe havens outside the West
and is increasingly being viewed as a sanctuary for Russian cash. The same teenage tracker who trolled Elon Musk by monitoring his private jet’s movements also tracked the March arrival in Dubai of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner belonging to Abramovich on March 4.
At least 38 business executives or officials linked to Putin own a multitude of properties in Dubai worth more than $314 million, the New York Times reported, citing data compiled by the nonprofit Center for Advanced Defense Studies. Some of those owners are under sanctions by the United States or the European Union.“Sanctions are only as strong as the weakest link,” Adam M. Smith, a lawyer and former adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department,.
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