#KleptoCapture
DOJ disbanding Task Force KleptoCapture, Kleptocracy Team, and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery plays into hands of Putin and corrupt foreign oligarchs and criminals. This is what corruption looks like.
February 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Trump also shuttered the KleptoCapture task force, a DOJ unit formed in 2022 to identify and seize assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs.

The unit coordinated investigations across agencies, leading to high-profile seizures of yachts, real estate, private jets..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I missed this (Feb 6). Trump DOJ shut down “Taskforce Kleptocapture” that seized Russian oligarch super yachts.



www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs
The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.
www.reuters.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One reason I'm confident Trump will reverse the 2018 sanctions on people like Deripaska is that it is consistent with ending KleptoCapture, most of whose highest profile targets were built off those 2018 sanctions.

This was baked in from Pam Bondi's first day on the job.
March 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The US is shutting down KleptoCapture, the task force seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets — redirecting resources to fight drug cartels instead.

www.kyivpost.com/post/46728
White House Shuts Down Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs, Shifts Focus to Drug Cartels
Formed in March 2022, KleptoCapture was tasked with enforcing sanctions and export restrictions against Russia, particularly targeting “corrupt Russian oligarchs.”
www.kyivpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Interesting facts: The current Attorney General Pam Bondi once worked as a foreign agent for Qatar.

On Bondi's first day in office as Attorney general, she shut down the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, shut down the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture (which enforced sanctions on Russian oligarchs).
October 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
❗️A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, issued on Wednesday said the effort, known as Task Force KleptoCapture, will end as part of a shift in focus and funding to combating drug cartels and international gangs.
February 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“Task Force KleptoCapture, the [Justice] Department's Kleptocracy Team, and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, shall be disbanded. Attorneys assigned to those initiatives shall return to their prior posts...”
www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
Long live kleptocracy under Trump!
www.justice.gov
February 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In this context, it finally becomes clear why Pam Bondi, the 87th Attorney General, shut down the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force and the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture, and reduced the enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act on her first day heading the US Department of Justice.
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Like this tammy?
July 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
DOJ disbands foreign influence task force, unit tasked with seizing Russian oligarchs' asset: Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded a Biden-era initiative targeting Russian oligarchs as well as another designed to combat foreign influence. Task Force KleptoCapture was created in the wake of Russia’s…
DOJ disbands foreign influence task force, unit tasked with seizing Russian oligarchs' asset
Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded a Biden-era initiative targeting Russian oligarchs as well as another designed to combat foreign influence. Task Force KleptoCapture was created in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, coordinating a global effort…
thehill.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Trump’s dismantling of a Biden initiative to seize the assets of Russian oligarchs has fueled a wave of “dirty money coming into the United States.”
Trump Move Helped Russian Billionaires Hide Their Cash
The KleptoCapture task force hunted down the offshore assets of Russian oligarchs to fund Ukraine’s military defense.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Merkposten.
Für alle, denen noch nicht klar ist, wer seit ca. 25 Jahren die US-Wahlen beeinflusst und oder manipuliert.
www.n-tv.de/politik/Task...
US-Justizministerin Bondi will russische Oligarchen verschonen
Alles neu in der US-Justiz: Ministerin Pam Bondi löst gleich mehrere Taskforces auf. Darunter "KleptoCapture", die die Sanktionen gegen russische Oligarchen durchsetzen sollte. Auch die Beeinflussung ...
www.n-tv.de
February 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Justice Department has disbanded the KleptoCapture task force, a Treasury Department initiative launched in 2022 to target business figures with ties to the Kremlin.
U.S. Justice Department disbands task force searching for assets of sanctioned Russian billionaires — The Guardian — Meduza
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has disbanded the KleptoCapture task force, a Treasury Department initiative launched in 2022 to target business figures with ties to the Kremlin, The Guardian…
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I had missed that Trump and Musk killed a law enforcement group called "Kleptocapture." Which is so on brand it hurts. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Trump administration ends Biden-era task force aimed at seizing Russian oligarchs' assets
The move to disband Task Force KleptoCapture is one of several moves undertaken by the Justice Department under the new leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi that presage a different approach towar...
www.pbs.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trump Move Helped Russian Billionaires Hide Their Cash

Trump’s dismantling of Task Force KleptoCapture, an anti–corruption initiative set up in 2022 to seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, has set off a “dizzying” shift in “dirty money coming into the US,”

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-disma...
Trump Move Helped Russian Billionaires Hide Their Cash
The KleptoCapture task force hunted down the offshore assets of Russian oligarchs to fund Ukraine’s military defense.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Trump administration is also getting rid of much of the US's anti-kleptocracy investigative teams: "Task Force KleptoCapture, the Department's Kleptocracy Team, and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, shall be disbanded."

www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...
www.justice.gov
February 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Trumps Amerika das Land der unbegrenzten Kleptokratie
US-Justizministerin Bondi will russische Oligarchen verschonen
Alles neu in der US-Justiz: Ministerin Pam Bondi löst gleich mehrere Taskforces auf. Darunter "KleptoCapture", die die Sanktionen gegen russische Oligarchen durchsetzen sollte. Auch die Beeinflussung ...
www.n-tv.de
February 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Task Force KleptoCapture was responsible for seizing assets of Kremlin-linked oligarchs and prosecuting individuals accused of helping them evade sanctions.
U.S. Disbands Task Forces on Russian Sanctions, Foreign Influence - The Moscow Times
The U.S.
www.themoscowtimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Grievance. The renewable energy Trump used to take down America, prop up Putin, and take up fascism.
August 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
DOJ is disbanding an initiative launched after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

Memo from AG Bondi, issued on Wed during a series of orders, stated that Task Force KleptoCapture will end to fund "combating drug cartels and int gangs".
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Also because she defended his first impeachment. The first day she shut down the Foreign Influence Task Force the Task Force Kleptocapture and cut enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. She’s a coconspirator and a cleaner. Problem is this is messier than the Exxon Valdez.
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 PM