Diamonds and divorces: Are the oligarch sanctions working?

Diamonds and divorces: Are the oligarch sanctions working?

Author: The Times May 22, 2023 Duration: 32:48

Russia's deputy defence minister, Timur Ivanov, was sanctioned by the EU last October. Forty days before that happened, his wife, the socialite Svetlana Maniovich, divorced him. The Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Russian non-profit organisation, received a trove of emails that seem to suggest this 'pre-emptive' divorce might have been an evasion strategy. So what was really going on?

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Guests:

- Maria Pevchikh, investigator for the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

- Tom Keatinge, Director for the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

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