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The Great Moscow Bank Shakedown
While supervising financial institutions, agents of the KGB’s successor—the FSB—have siphoned off serious money.
11 Dec 2019, 12:57 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Kirill Cherkalin told his parents the piles of cash stashed at their apartment—$50 million, €1.8 million ($1.9 million), and 17 million rubles ($267,000)—were “for work.” At the downtown pad he shared with a girlfriend he had shoeboxes, tote bags, and suitcases stuffed with $22 million, €6.5 million, and 794 million rubles. In his supercharged Mercedes-Benz SUV: $200,000. All told, he had some $100 million...
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