New efforts to sanction Russian oligarchs and companies have immediately come up against a wall of financial secrecy cultivated by decades of rich countries courting finance from dictators, tax evaders and money launderers. The Tax Justice Network has published a briefing detailing 10 transparency measures that the newly announced Transatlantic Task Force and Task Force KleptopCapture can take to cut through financial secrecy and expose the assets and wealth secretively held around the world by sanctioned Russian oligarchs.
Briefing: 10 measures to expose sanctioned Russian oligarchs’ hidden assets