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Ukraine raids home of billionaire in war-time anti-corruption crackdown

February 02, 2023

Security services searched the home of one of Ukraine's most prominent billionaires on Wednesday, moving against a figure once seen as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's sponsor in what the authorities called a war-time anti-corruption purge.

US moves to seize Russian oligarch Abramovich's planes

June 07, 2022

A U.S. court on Monday issued warrants for the seizure of two luxury planes owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich under U.S. measures imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, court records showed.

Fiji seizes $300 mln yacht of Russian oligarch on U.S. request

FRIDAY, MAY 06, 2022

Authorities in Fiji have seized a $300 million yacht of Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov at the request of the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday (May 5), as Washington and its allies press Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. takes aim at Russian oligarchs in fresh sanctions

FRIDAY, MARCH 04, 2022

The United States on March 3 imposed sanctions against Russian oligarchs as it targeted Russia’s super-rich and others close to President Vladimir Putin, further ratcheting up financial pressure over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Book World: How Putin pushed aside the oligarchs and made Russia his own

FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020

Putin's People By Catherine Belton Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 624 pp. $35 ---

Report on inequality puts the onus on politicians

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018

ECONOMISTS are calling on politicians to take advantage of the debate on Thailand’s wide income gap and unequal society to propose solutions in the run-up to general election.