On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss The Russian asset tracker, a new collaboration by media organizations to track down and catalog the vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Guests:
Kevin Hall, North America editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Matt Smith, award winning political and investigative journalist
Web Resources:
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: Russian Asset Tracer
The San Francisco Standard: Search for Russian Oligarch Wealth Hits a Wall in SF, Thanks to City’s Disregard for Public Records Laws
The Guardian: $17bn of global assets linked to 35 Russians with alleged ties to Putin
