When Vadim ran these company names through this database, both popped up. These each led to another shell company. And another, and another. Vadim was ultimately able to trace the path of this $11 million from the Russian Treasury, to Universal Savings Bank, through Moldova and Latvia, and into Switzerland. As John Moscow had promised, every dollar transfer touched New York for a split second. And even though that money went through 11 different steps, our database picked it up. If our adversaries thought they’d obscured their footprints in the snow by laundering the money through so many
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