The Rocky Mountain mansion owned by Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch targeted by the Western sanctions, could be among the first assets frozen by the U.S. government under the U.S. KleptoCapture initiative. The 14,000-square-foot modern mega-home on 200 acres in Snowmass, Colorado, is just outside the glamorous Aspen.
The U.S. Government started to call out Russian oligarchs as kleptocrats. On 2 March 2022, the U.S. Government announced the multilateral enforcement taskforce KleptoCapture, FinTelegram reported. As part of the effort to target the Oligarchs a/k/a kleptocrats, the U.S. Treasury also launched the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program (KARP).
In a jaw-dropping twist that reeks of conspiracy, Virginia Giuffre, the fearless accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, was found dead at her remote Western Australia farm on April 25, 2025, in what authorities hastily labeled a suicide. The 41-year-old mother of three, who bravely exposed the sordid underbelly of Epstein’s sex trafficking empire, allegedly took her own life just months after a bizarre car crash she claimed nearly killed her.