

Abhishek Varman as writer of adapted screenplay and director impresses in his first outing. First half breezes through while second half drags a bit although nice music and quirky dialogues helps you keep going through melodramatic scenes. The rough father-son relationship between Arjun and Ronit is done upright. I felt southern India flavor of movie was captured more effectively than northern flavor. As their parents, Amrita Singh, Ronit Roy, Revathy and Shivkumar do quite well. Alia looks charming and does better than Arjun in emotional scenes. Based on the book of Chetan Bhagat where he touches the details of cross cultural marriage in a humorous way, 2 States remains faithful to the idea and as a movie experience also it does not disappoint. In April, the Justice Department asked Congress to expand the assets that can be sent to Ukraine, particularly funds seized for violating export controls.Īt the time, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Washington was “leaving a lot of money on the table”.2 States. In December, Congress passed a law that allowed certain assets seized by the Justice Department to be funneled to Ukraine via the US Department of State. US President Joe Biden, meanwhile, called on Congress last year to make it easier to transfer seized oligarch assets to Ukraine. “We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to investigate, arrest and prosecute those whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue this unjust war,” Garland said at the time.Īmong the assets seized by Washington was a fleet of superyachts, including a 106m (348-foot) vessel owned by Suleiman Kerimov valued at over $300m, which had been docked in Fiji. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Garland announced a new task force, dubbed KleptoCapture, that specifically targeted Russian oligarchs who sought to evade the deluge of US sanctions imposed against Russian entities.
