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Two years ago, attorneys with a global human-rights organization teamed up with local investigators in Ukraine to begin gathering testimony from victims who have had their property and other assets stolen and sold by occupying Russian forces, often under threat of violence. After identifying suspects involved in funding Russia's invasion of Ukraine or pillaging and selling the country's natural resources and agriculture, primarily grain, on the global market, the organization, LexCollective, shares their names with LSEG World Check, which supplies and updates lists that banks use to screen clients and payments for sanctions and anti-money laundering purposes. But working from...