A Russian pop star and supporter of President Vladimir Putin moonlighted as a message and money carrying mule for the Eurasian criminal enterprise called the Brothers’ Circle, according to the U.S. Treasury Department
Grigory Lepsveridze, who sings under the stage-name Grigory Leps is on the U.S. black list as an agent acting on behalf of the Brothers’ Circle, the Treasury said in a statement on its website.
It prohibits U.S. citizens from conducting transactions with those identified and freezes any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
The Brothers’ Circle is one of four organized crime groups targeted in executive order 13581 which President Barack Obama signed in 2011.
The others are Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel, Italy’s Camorra mafia and Japan’s Yakuza syndicate read rest on Bloomberg
