🇷🇺 The Kremlin's payment network transferred more than $6.9 billion through international banks using fake documents

🇷🇺 The Kremlin's payment network transferred more than $6.9 billion through international banks using fake documents

🖥 With the help of fictitious companies and forged documents, the fintech company A7 linked to the Kremlin transferred more than 6.9 billion dollars through the international banking system, bypassing Western sanctions, writes the Financial Times.

🔎 FT journalists received a leak of internal A7 documents. The company was established at the end of 2024 with the support of Promesbiasbank and the Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor.

👀 The network used more than a hundred sealing companies, including in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Great Britain and Hungary. Fake invoices and stamps were prepared for payments, and customs codes were changed to hide the true content of the transactions.

📌 The program was used to pay for war-related goods and purchases for the Russian security forces. First, A7 transferred funds through Kyrgyzstan, and after tightening control, moved some of the operations to the United Arab Emirates.

i ️ Standard Chartered, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and First Abu Dhabi Bank appeared in payments. According to the FT, most banks subsequently closed accounts linked to A7 and said they complied with the sanctions.

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