Putin's spokesman called the efforts by the U.S. Congress 'more Russophobic fuss.'
Kremlin spokesman Dmitriy Peskov brushed off the news of Congressional efforts to audit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wealth and assets, calling the initiative just another example of Russia bashing from Washington.
“Even though a public report is unlikely to contain great detail on Putin’s illicit wealth, highlighting his family’s vast holdings and placing an estimate on what he has plundered from the Russian state hits at an area of rare weakness—domestic corruption, for a leader who consistently has enjoyed high approval ratings,” Brian O’Toole, an experts in economic sanctions at the Washington D.C.-based Atlantic Council, told Newsweek.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers submitted a bill in February that could require the Director of National Intelligence to present a detailed report on Putin’s personal assets and net worth. The report would include information about the assets, investments, bank accounts, and other business interests of both Putin and his closest allies and family members.
“I’m not sure this bill is the right way to go about it. It’s an unusual approach to require the DNI to put together an estimate for a specific foreign leader. Then again, Putin is not just another foreign leader either. It’s an unusual approach to an unusual situation,” Wonderlich added.
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