ILZE INSIGHT: Attempts to confiscate frozen assets are set to reveal some very uncomfortable truths about the absence of harmonised laws across the west

By Ilze Znotina, AML Intelligence Expert Collumist

2022 was a year of radical changes in the world.

A year when, due to Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine, the long-known truth about the amount of Russian money of dubious origin.

This money has flooded the western world and was, conveniently1, integrated in exclusive goods and real estate.