Bush who helped pioneer the government’s modern financial campaign techniques to choke off terrorist money. He writes with a measure and balance that seem transported. Zarate, a White House counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Peter Baker (who covered the Bush White House first for The Washington Post, then for The New York Times) neither accuses nor excuses. “It’s something that could be done that would send a very clear signal of taking the gloves off and not just dance around it,” said Juan C. Putin’s financial circle, it is sending a not-very-subtle message that it thinks it knows where the Russian leader has his money, and that he could ultimately be targeted directly or indirectly. Now, as the Obama administration prepares to announce another round of sanctions as early as Monday targeting Russians it considers part of Mr. Obama’s response to the Ukraine crisis, while derided by critics as slow and weak, has reinvigorated a 15-year global hunt for Mr. Putin and repeated that denial on Friday. For all the rumors and speculation, though, there has been little if any hard evidence, and Gunvor has adamantly denied any financial ties to Mr. Putin may control $40 billion or even $70 billion, in theory making him the richest head of state in world history. Numbers are thrown around suggesting that Mr. Putin has a secret fortune has intrigued scholars, industry analysts, opposition figures, journalists and intelligence agencies but defied their efforts to uncover it.
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