The United States should seize and sell the yachts, mansions and other assets of Russian oligarchs and then send the proceeds to Ukraine, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Sumer, DN.Y. “I will add provisions that will allow us to hunt down oligarchs, take their money and send it directly to Ukraine,” Sumer said, referring to the provisions he intends to add to a $ 33 billion aid package requested by the Biden government. this. week. “There is no reason for Putin’s evil and these illegal profits to remain as they are when Ukraine desperately needs the money,” he added. A Civil Guard stands next to a yacht owned by a Russian oligarch named Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo / Francisco Ubilla) President Biden asked Congress on Friday to approve $ 33 billion in military, economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, more than double the $ 13.6 billion package approved by Congress in early March. RUSSIA INVASES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES The Ministry of Justice launched the KleptoCapture Task Force to hunt down the wealth of Russian oligarchs in March. Investigators worked with Spanish authorities to seize the 225-foot, $ 90 million luxury yacht Tango from Russian oligarch Victor Vekselberg last month. Russian President Vladimir Putin is using state media to spread the Kremlin message. (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY / Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that he was “grateful to the American people” for their continued support of the proposed $ 33 billion bailout package. RUSSIAN EMPLOYEES MUST “BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAR CRIMES”: GEN. BREEDLOVE “President Biden rightly said today that this step is not cheap,” Zelensky said. “But the negative consequences for the whole world from Russia’s attack on Ukraine and against democracy are so enormous that US support is comparatively necessary.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday. (Press Office of the Ukrainian Presidential Press via AP) CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION The provisions that Schumer said he would add to the aid package would also streamline the foreclosure process and make it a federal crime to have proceeds obtained through “corrupt dealings with the Russian government.”
