On the Steppes

Russia may no longer be on the FATF blacklist, it has new laws and a financial intelligence unit in place, but the jury remains out on the efficacy of its new anti-money laundering regime. Mark Rowe reports.

If you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn’t just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open. Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.