There are two Putin buddies who—despite their known history of using the Kremlin for corrupt financial gain and their role in implementing Putin’s malign foreign policy agenda—have yet to be blacklisted by the U.S.
over the years. Although not directly involved in Putin’s decision-making, Russia’s oligarchs have formed an indispensable part of Putin’s kleptocratic regime over the years.
Russian billionaires and businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven attend the plenary session of the Congress of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on the sidelines of Russian Business Week in Moscow, Russia, March 16, 2017.
During the '90s, as their business empire grew, Aven and Fridman were dogged by allegations, including from the FSB and the Russian parliament, of connections with organized crime, drug trafficking, and money laundering. In 2005, a United States district court in Washington, D.C.
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