Report: Washington intends to expose Putin’s Swiss bank account

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Washington’s non-military sanctions against Russia’s adventurist gambits in Ukraine is getting personal with the reported public disclosure of Vladimir Putin’s enormous, certainly ill-gotten, assets in a Swiss bank account worth more than $40 billion.

Putin’s Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the reported measure “absurd,” believing it was a hoax, out of which “one can only get a good laugh.”

But the measure is credible when one considers that the centerpiece of the U.S.-led sanctions targeted key figures in the inner circle of Putin’s presidency, banning their visa applications, freezing their western bank accounts, etc.

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Report: Washington intends to expose Putin’s Swiss bank account added by World Tribune on April 29, 2014
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