Friday, April 13, 2018

John Helmer — The Oligarch Sanctions – Steven Mnuchin Exposes Us Treasury Files To Court Challenge For Oligarchs With Less To Hide Than Oleg Deripaska

US lawyers report that until now the courts have been reluctant to accept challenges to the legality of sanctions. But Bruce Marks (right), whose firm Marks & Sokolov LLC has practised in Philadelphia, Moscow and Kiev for more than twenty years, says some of the latest sanctions have gone beyond the limits defined in the statute and the case law. “The Treasury has gone too far this time in regard to certain persons on the list,” Marks said. “The targeting of these persons appears to be arbitrary and capricious. Those terms satisfy one of the standards US judges say will justify overturning the designation. There’s also no rational connection between the facts and the government’s decision to choose some of these individuals to punish....
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The Oligarch Sanctions – Steven Mnuchin Exposes Us Treasury Files To Court Challenge For Oligarchs With Less To Hide Than Oleg Deripaska
John Helmer

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