Sentences with phrase «corrupt oligarchs»

& financial elites, (societally - sabotaging / damaging, corrupt oligarchs, such as Goldman Sachs, J.P.Morgan / Rothschild scamsters et.

Vladimir Putin's circle of corrupt oligarchs gouge whatever money they can from the impoverished Russian economy and move it to bank accounts overseas.

Donald Trump's best friends are corrupt oligarchs.

Not exact matches

Tillerson's predecessor, Lee Raymond, tried to buy Russia's most profitable oil company Yukos from the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had gained control of it during the highly corrupt privatizations under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

Since the 1950s, a series of dictators had devastated the Argentine private sector, concentrating wealth into the hands of politically connected oligarchs, corrupt government contractors, and, most recently, foreign investors.

Similarily, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a release, «Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.»

But unlike other Russian oligarchs, Khodorkovsky now enjoys an exceptional moral authority for surviving years in Russia's dismal penal system and waging legal battles in a corrupt and troubled justice system.

Two fascinating stories published this month provide two very different perspectives on the clashes between once - powerful Russian oligarchs and a Russian legal system that many believe to be incurably corrupt.