использовать(divert to or use in a role different from the usual or original one: [with OBJ. and INFINITIVE] social scientists were co-opted to work with the development agencies. n adopt (an idea or policy) for one's own use: the green parties have had most of their ideas co-opted by bigger parties. NOED. Apparent efforts by the authorities to co-opt rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Russia ahead of elections for Parliament in December seem to have compounded their troubles. NYT Alexander Demidov)
переманить(в своих интересах: to persuade or lure (an opponent) to join one's own system, party, etc. (Collins Dictionary): He considers the Chinese Communist Party to be a "transnational criminal organization" akin to the Mafia that has committed crimes against its own people and humanity in general. The centerpiece of their strategy has been to co-opt American elites and receive preferential treatment for the marketplace and trade, he maintained, adding that "they transferred something on the order of 3 to 6 trillion dollars from our pension funds, our mutual funds...to the Chinese Communist Party."coasttocoastam.comART Vancouver)
