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  • Documenting Russian Federation Corruption

    With documentation from several secret bank accounts and offshore corporate records, Barron's Dow Jones traced how Russia's most powerful officials have looted their nation in cahoots with cops, gangsters, and oligarchs. They show how a worldwide network of money laundering professionals that facilitates that plunder, while also abetting other global mischief like drug smuggling and arms trafficking.

    Tags: corruption; drug smuggling; arms trafficking; Russia

    By Bill Alpert

    Barron

    2011

  • Corruption in the Russian Federation

    A series on corruption within the Russian Federation by Barron's Senior Editor Bill Alpert.

    Tags: Russian Federation; Corruption

    By Bill Alpert

    Barron's

    2011

  • Russian River Flooding

    The Press Democrat found that "$6 million dollars in federal grants intended to protect homes along the Russian River from flooding has been spent, in large part, on houses least in danger of flooding and on property owners least in need of money."

    Tags: flooding; Russian River; grants; tax money; federal flood grants

    By Tom Chorneau

    Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.)

    2002

  • Russian Mob Series/ FBI Tracked Alleged Russian Mob Ties of Giuliani Campaign Supporter; San Francisco Bank Linked to Laundering Probe at Bank of New York

    These reports are the first two in an investigative series about "how billions of dollars are entering the U.S. from the former Soviet Union. Emigres from Russia and other former Soviet states are being tracked by US and international law enforcement, but cases against alleged ties to Russian organized crime are rare."

    Tags: Money laundering FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations KGB embezzlement

    By Knut Royce

    Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C.)

    1999

  • From Russia With Diamonds

    In 1995, Golden ADA, a San Francisco diamond-importing firm, collapsed, unveiling an international trail of theft and betrayal. SF Weekly finds newly unsealed court files showing that high-level members of the Russian government are tied to Golden ADA -- and to the theft of more than $100 million in diamonds and gold owned by the Russian people.

    Tags: Murder; Bankruptcy; Russian Federation

    By Peter Byrne

    SF Weekly (San Francisco, Calif.)

    1998

  • Loose Nukes

    `Frontline finds that the three most alarming cases of nuclear material being smuggled from Russia were connected to a trader still living in a Russian nuclear city, and that the Russian federal security service knows who and where he is, but has guaranteed the culprit's freedom in exchange for his silence. (November 19, 1996)

    Tags: Jones Nalder Fanning Loose nukes Contest entry 30 pgs. TAPE

    By Jones;Nalder

    None

    1996

  • No title (id: 13290)

    Five nights a week, at least $100 million in crisp new $100 bills is flown from JFK nonstop to Moscow, where it is used to finance the Russian mob's vast and growing international crime syndicate. State and federal officials believe it is part of a multi-billion-dollar money-laundering operation. New York magazine investigates how the Republic National Bank and the United States Federal Reserve prefer to ignore the problem because they a make millions off the currency sales to Russian mobsters. (Jan. 12, 1996)

    Tags: Friedman The Money Plane Russian Mafiya 10 pgs.

    By None

    New York Magazine

    1996