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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tom Watling

Russian criminals and UK drug gangs caught in multi-billion pound money laundering scheme

A multibillion-pound money laundering network between Russian cyber criminals, UK drug dealers and sanctioned oligarchs has been dismantled in an international operation.

The network, which used cryptocurrency to launder illicit funds, was uncovered in “Operation Destabilise”, the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) largest money-laundering investigation in a decade.

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