We will add colleagues to several, in our opinion, important theses from the strategy.
• Support for civil society
US government bodies will support reporters, civil activists and criminal lawyers, whose work is related to counteracting corruption.
• Citizenship in exchange for investments
In addition to the fact that the United States will try to convince foreign governments to stop issuing “golden passports”, the Biden administration plans to reconsider the American practice of issuing investment visas EB-5. This program allows you to get a green card (residence permit) and then citizenship in exchange for investments in certain territories from 500 thousand US dollars.
Last year we released a report on the corruption risks of this program. According to it, Green cards were also received by former Russian officials accused of economic crimes in their homeland.
• Real estate market regulation
The strategy provides for the strengthening of anti -laundering inspections in the American real estate market.
According to Global Financial Integrity, over the past five years, more than $ 2 billion has been washed through it. At least part of these dirty money was of Russian origin. Russian corrupt officials and politically significant persons often invest In American real estate.
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