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U.K. Police Charge 3rd Man in Effort to Kill Russian Dissident
The authorities added a suspect in the attempted assassination of Sergei V. Skripal in 2018. Separately, a European court blamed Russia for Alexander V. Litvinenko’s murder in 2006.
February is one of the coldest times of year in Moscow, and it was in that frigid month that Australian accountant Graeme Briggs touched down in 2015. He was there for a face-to-face meeting with a client.
Briggs took his seat at the upmarket La Maree seafood restaurant, minutes from the Kremlin, to join Herman Gref.
Gref was chairman of Russia’s biggest bank, SberBank, and a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, having once served in his ministry. He needed Briggs’s help to protect his vast wealth.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-04/pandora-papers-australian-accountant-asiaciti-graeme-briggs-leak/100482936
Briggs took his seat at the upmarket La Maree seafood restaurant, minutes from the Kremlin, to join Herman Gref.
Gref was chairman of Russia’s biggest bank, SberBank, and a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, having once served in his ministry. He needed Briggs’s help to protect his vast wealth.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-04/pandora-papers-australian-accountant-asiaciti-graeme-briggs-leak/100482936
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He made a $62m fortune keeping his rich clients' secrets. Now they are spilling out
They're called the Pandora Papers. A leak of 11.9 million files reveals how the rich and powerful disguise and move their money offshore.