This time the banks took us seriously and sent us every single dollar payment for dozens of banks in Russia and the former Soviet Union over a 28-month period. It was a windfall. In all, we received a database with over 1.3 million transactions from multiple Russian banks. Initially, we thought this would be the key to unlocking the money laundering mystery, but when we started looking at it, we realized it was actually too much information. We had tens of thousands of company names, account numbers, and amounts, but absolutely no context. Without some sort of roadmap linking this data to the
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