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🧵The U.S. launched the hunt for Roman #Abramovich's hidden assets
The West has seized more than $330 billion worth of Russian assets, including half of the foreign currency reserves. But these were relatively easy prey: yachts, private jets, real estate, money in known accounts.
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First, some background: Kharitonin became a billionaire by "co-founding" the pharmaceutical company Pharmstandard with the sanctioned mafioso Roman #Abramovich in 2003 by stealing a bunch of existing pharmaceutical factories and merging them under this name.
