The Troika Laundromat - OCCRP

The trail of suspicious cash flows goes from the top of the Russian power company to the British throne, and to a Danish bank branch in Vesterbrogade.Banking leak reveals how LLPs allowed people to move money under the radar.Charterhouse one of 50 private education providers to have received funds via Baltic bank.A leak reveals that the company sold tens of thousands of handsets to a company owned by an illegal arms dealer.For the first time, leaked data reveals in detail how the Russian elite hid and transferred huge cash flows, including some with criminal origins.A leak reveals that hundreds of millions of euros of money from suspicious sources ended up in Nordea's accounts.Nordea bank in Finland received hundreds of millions of euros, some of it from suspicious sources, according to leaked documents.For years, ABN AMRO, ING, the Dutch branch of GarantiBank and the Russian-led Amsterdam Trade Bank were part of a money laundering operation that took in billions, according to leaked bank transactions.Billions in suspicious Russian money was channeled through Lithuania to banks in the Netherlands and other countries.Part of the money from the Troika Laundromat ended up in Oss for the purchase of two luxury yachts.The two banks that are central to the Troika Laundromat sent hundreds of millions to the Netherlands. The profiteers include a good friend of Vladimir Putin.For the first time, bank documents show in detail how huge sums of money flowed to Swiss banks, with $37 million landing in the Zurich account of a Putin straw man.Nordea's Vesterport branch was the center of hundreds of offshore and shell companies for more than a decade, involved in hundreds of millions of suspicious transactions.An exclusive investigation reveals how Troika Dialog channelled $4.6 billion to Europe and the US.The family of Artyakov, number two in Russia's largest public defense technology company, acquired property in S'Agaró with money from tax havens.More than 6 billion euros was spun through a massive network of companies and accounts that facilitated the laundering of money tainted with fraud, corruption, and even blood.