Western sanctions and their consequences on Russian business leaders and oligarchs have formed most of the work supply at the "K" department of the FSB's economic security service, the SEB. The department, headed by General Ivan Tkachev, employs singular methods to monitor business bosses in their interdependent relations with the Russian state.

Unlike most of the intelligence services, which prefer to keep their activities under the radar, the K Department appears to love the limelight, making sure