A Russian pop star honored by President Vladimir Putin works as a money courier for the international crime syndicate known as the Brothers’ Circle, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
Grigory Lepsveridze, who goes by the stage name Grigory Leps, is one of six people and four entities the U.S. blacklisted yesterday for 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.
