According to the Justice Department, the pair, who both worked for the FBI and investigated oligarchs, agreed to investigate a rival oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11667515/Ex-FBI-agent-arrested-links-Russian-oligarch.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

And if they did, it would take one phone call to some dodgy Russian oligarch to plug the hole.

Source: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/the-rising-cost-of-the-police-investigation-into-the-snps-finances-is-becoming-disproportionate-vladimir-mctavish-4226938

As for sanctioning the chief financial officers, the logic may be that British newspapers operate like many Russian ones, with a wealthy oligarch wielding all the power.

Source: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/the-kremlin-is-sanctioning-me-but-why-cant-they-get-my-name-right/

Bottom: Konstantin Malofeyev (left), the Russian oligarch alleged to have employed Hanick, also was indicted by the Justice Department.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/09/putin-russia-ukraine-sanction-justice-department-00090386

For a decade she was married to the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/style/dasha-zhukovas-oligarch-russia-art.html

He quoted Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska as saying: “There will be no money next year.”

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/31/roaming-charges-86/

Medvedev said he reported directly to the group's founders, Dmitry Utkin and Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/world/ukraine-russia-war-former-wagner-commander-describes-brutality-and-incompetence-frontline/d9d66670-ba9e-4496-8021-69ed7c965bf9

Russian oligarch turned warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is in exile in Belarus, but what will become of the tens of thousands of fighters who signed up to risk their lives for a paycheck or a ticket out of jail?

Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-01/wagner-group-fighters-russia-putin-ukraine-war

The associate of oligarch Roman Abramovich argued sanctions caused him "serious hardship," adding he hadn't seen Vladimir Putin for years.

Source: https://createsend.com/t/d-6DDA6398DF4105FB2540EF23F30FEDED

Very true, need the private jet to complete the oligarch trifecta.

Source: https://www.fark.com/comments/12801676?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark

What helped was that the war greatly reduced the value of oligarch assets in Ukraine.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/22/ukraine-postwar-reconstruction-corruption-united-states/

When Hunter Biden was given a seat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma and owned by a corrupt oligarch, so was Devon Archer.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/01/peter-schweizer-on-devon-archers-testimony-the-noose-is-tightening/

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries, is a Russian oligarch who has long been one of Putin's cronies.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11726955/365-days-Putins-bloodshed-comprehensive-look-Ukraine-war-unfolded.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Zingarevich Sr was a billionaire twice over, a part of the oligarch group, and his son went to Bearwood College, spoke English.

Source: https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/sport/23987854.reading-fc-icon-26-year-reign-anton-zingarevich-exit/?ref=rss