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Dec 2024
26m 28s

US sanctions Georgian billionaire

Bbc World Service
About this episode

The US has imposed sanctions on Georgia's former prime minister and billionaire founder of the Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

One of crypto-currency's most notorious figures is facing extradition to the US on charges of massive fraud. What do we know about Do Kwan?

Also in the show, nine months on from the Baltimore Bridge disaster, we speak to two local companies about how they're trying to put their businesses back together.

And how volunteering - also a multi-billion dollar industry in the US though often overlooked, is back on the rise in the US.

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