Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to work on a project exploring the financial dimension of international crimes, i.e. war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression. The project’s premise was that international crimes are big business, and generate a significant financial footprint, yet their financial disruption — and prosecution ofContinue reading “Economic Complicity in International Crimes: Principles and High-Level Roadmap”
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Lord Leggatt’s Lament: Why the Dissent in Shvidler is Wrong
Eugene Shvidler is a British multi-billionaire of Russian origin. He is a friend of Roman Abramovich, formerly of Chelsea Football Club’s fame, and until March 2022 used to sit on the board of Evraz, a UK-listed company with subsidiaries all over the world, including Russia. Despite being a British citizen, Shvidler is now sanctioned byContinue reading “Lord Leggatt’s Lament: Why the Dissent in Shvidler is Wrong”
Russia (Non) Sanctions Matrix
There are multiple databases or ‘trackers’ of Russia sanctions. They are important for compliance purposes and assessing the effect of sanctions. What is lacking is an accessible summary of sanctions that could be, but have not been, imposed on Russia. Such a resource could be a repository of ideas for Western governments to draw upon,Continue reading “Russia (Non) Sanctions Matrix”
Frozen Russian State Assets
The Key to Enforcing the Largest Financial Debt of Our Times? This post was first published on Verfassungsblog and is re-published with its kind permission. In February 2022, a coalition of states including all G7 economies froze approximately US$300 billion in Russian state assets. Those consist of foreign currency reserves accumulated by the Central BankContinue reading “Frozen Russian State Assets”
More Joint Cybercrime Sanctions — And a ‘Two-Tier’ Ransomware Universe
Following on from the Australian, UK and US joint sanctions designations of Russian cybercriminals in January 2023 (in connection with the Medibank hack) and May 2024 (targeting a member of the LockBit ransomware outfit), these three countries struck out with joint cybercrime sanctions again. On 2 October, they designated three Russian nationals allegedly involved inContinue reading “More Joint Cybercrime Sanctions — And a ‘Two-Tier’ Ransomware Universe”
Economic Crime Law 