When US$ 20 billion in dirty money swirled out of Russia and into Europe in one of the biggest money laundering operations yet uncovered in Eastern Europe, investigators in Moldova and Russia set to work to track down how it was done and who was behind it.

Reporters for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) talked with Alexander Grigoriev, a banker whose name shows up in the scheme. He denies he ever received money personally and his partner says if the transfers were not legal, then it’s the Russian government’s responsibility to explain what happened.

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