“Igor changed his mind?”
“No, something else. I'll send in my report and we can discuss it after you read it. I'm on my way back.” I decided not to mention the attack. There were too many people around me waiting to find an available pay phone, or maybe to eavesdrop on me. I couldn't be sure.
Back in my New York office, I forwarded to David in DC my summary of the facts I had gathered from Oksana's trash.
On December 1, 2002, Igor Razov opened a bank account at the Global Kredit Privatbankiers in Frankfurt am Mein. On the same day, he deposited into that account sixteen cashier's checks totaling approximately $60 million. Four days later, that money was wire-transferred to Barclays Bank in Nevis, the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, into an account owned by Bright Metalwork Ltd., a Nevis company. A week later, the money continued its route through Panama City to Caracas until it resurfaced as a deposit made by Sling & Dewey Goods and Services, PLC, registered in Australia. Then the money was sent, probably by mail or by courier, to Eagle Bank of New York. Additionally, several checks were drawn on a bank in the Seychelles Islands. The source of the money is still unknown.
I called David two hours later waiting for his litany of praise. Nothing. It had taken a full week of my life to unravel the whirlwind tour of the laundered money around the world. I'd rummaged through garbage, taken a beating, and endured a ringing ear, and this was the thanks I got? Granted, it took me only twenty minutes to actually write my report.
“Good progress,” he finally said. “But we need to know why the money traveled as it did. Usually money launderers take one or two interim steps, not five or six. Why so many? And where did Igor get this kind of money, anyway? It's way out of his league.”
“No clue. I have no doubt that the money isn't his. Maybe it's Zhukov's.”
“We looked into that possibility, too. The whirlwind is also very much unlike Zhukov.”
“Maybe this one is different; Zhukov's or not, somebody worked very hard to obscure this money's source. But there could be any number of other possibilities,” I said.
“Keep going, then. Sort them out,” said David.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
FOREWORD
PREFACE
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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