Attorney general also announces charges against Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev for sanctions violations
Highlights
- US has disrupted a global “botnet’ controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency.
- Attorney General Merrick Garland also announced charges against Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev for sanctions violations.
- TV producer John Hanick, 71, a US citizen charged with violations of sanctions and false statements.
- The indictment is the first of a Russian oligarchs in the US since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Garland: “Our message to those who continue to enable the Russian regime through their criminal conduct is this: it does not matter how well you.
- conceal your assets, it does.