The outgoing Obama administration had similar fears. Following Trump’s victory but before his inauguration, they added five more names to the Magnitsky List, including Andrei Pavlov. He had been one of our highest value targets right from the start. He’d played a central role in almost everything that had happened, from orchestrating the collusive court judgments that had been used in the $230 million fraud, to showing up in Monaco at Dmitry Klyuev’s side, to threatening Alexander Perepilichnyy. But because he wasn’t a Russian government official or a colorful ex-con, he had managed to slip
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