A7A5: A breakout sanctions evasion capability

Russian sanctions evasion, illicit political finance, and more

In 2015, Europe’s poorest nation woke up to a nasty surprise. One billion dollars had vanished from three of Moldova’s leading banks, plunging the country into deep crisis. The money had moved out of the banks through a series of transactions to UK and Hong Kong-registered companies that held bank accounts in Latvia; those companies, in turn, were owned…