Record asset seizure: Authorities confiscated $7.6 billion in holdings tied to Vadim Moshkovich, the largest nationalization in recent years.

Part of wider campaign: The Kremlin has transferred an estimated $89.7 billion in private assets to state control since the Ukraine war began.

Elite on alert: Billionaires are showing loyalty to avoid similar fates, with some making large voluntary contributions to the state budget.

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    23 hours ago

    And do what? They are not some united people. They’re literally just grifters that will take as much scrap as possible and if Piotr is dead and his money is taken - good maybe there’s an opportunity for me to grift more now and I didn’t like Piotr anyway.

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      23 hours ago

      They’re United in their efforts to remove windows from upper floors.