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"So you have these massive loopholes where criminals engage in selling legal products, but they knowingly sell them to criminal entities," says Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institute.

And at the other end of the scale were the drivers who ripped across the junction, either knowingly or accidentally taking advantage of others' hesitancy.

Mr Shvidler's lawyers said there can be "no question of Mr Shvidler, either knowingly or negligently, being involved in an unlawful scheme to avoid paying tax".

The lawsuit also accuses the Broad of failure to prevent retaliation, and Gerlach of defamation for allegedly knowingly making false claims about Mitchell and his ability to do his job.

Trump was accused of pressurising officials to reverse the 2020 result, knowingly spreading lies about election fraud and seeking to exploit the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.