Gli spacci di droga del venerdì sera aiutano la macchina da guerra russa, avverte l’agenzia criminale britannica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8030m1g2ygo
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Gli spacci di droga del venerdì sera aiutano la macchina da guerra russa, avverte l’agenzia criminale britannica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8030m1g2ygo
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> The NCA said a man linked to a Russian-led money-laundering network operating in the UK had bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan which was used to make payments on behalf of the Russian war machine.
> Last year the NCA said it had identified two networks called TGR and Smart that worked together to process cash for drugs gangs, suppliers of illegal firearms and people smugglers.
> Rossi bought the bank through his company Altair Holding SA. On Christmas Day 2024, Altair Holding SA took a 75% stake in Keremet Bank.
> Further work showed that Keremet Bank was facilitating payments for a Russian state-owned bank called Promsvyazbank (PSB) which is described by the US treasury as a “sanctions evasion hub”., external
> The NCA says Keremet Bank was helping PSB make payments for “Russia’s military-industrial base”, in other words, for the arms factories making weapons for the Ukraine war.
> At street level TGR and Smart provide a “full spectrum of money-laundering services”, the NCA said.
They allow people like drug dealers and suppliers of illegal firearms to swap their cash for cryptocurrency.
> Investigators say the money-laundering network was operating in at least 28 towns and cities across the UK “sustaining an entire architecture that allows crime to pay in our country”.
Sounds like the guy is just a front to the state run operation.
Sounds like a great reason to legalise, regulate and tax.
Hell if you’re that concerned about Russia, give ten percent of the tax raised to help Ukraine. The amount of ching Britain gets through that’ll have Putin pushed back to Vladivostok by next Christmas.
The sad truth is selling drugs is more profitable, easier work and less risky than normal salaried employment.
I buy my drugs on Thursday, this is nothing to do with me
Why does the headline call them UK Crime Agency when they’re called the National Crime Agency and referred to as that throughout the article?
Buying drugs has always funded dodgy causes. It the nature of a black market.
All the more reason to look at legalising and regulating.
Reminds me of a couple of years back where they reckoned that pirate movies were supporting the Heroin trade! Because as we all know you can just take it or leave it with heroin but Harry Potter withdrawal is a horror!
Sounds a bit like we should bring the majority of the market within legal sales then?
Title makes it sound like the issue is money being taken out of the UK rather than the crime itself lol
I’m so grateful to the BBC for today’s revelatory insight that money from drugs deals could go to dubious people.