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by alexro 2389 days ago
Is anyone able to explain how they have jumped from this

"Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world’s biggest money-laundering scam"

to this

"—one reportedly used by Putin’s family and the FSB." ?

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Your source is jumping big between the facts too
The last paragraph:

> FSB representatives served on the board of at least one of banks that wired billions out of Russia as did Igor Putin, Putin’s cousin. He was a manager and executive board member in the Russian Land Bank. This bank wired more than $9.7 billion to Moldindconbank in Moldova, most of which went on to Trasta Komercbanka and from there on to the world.

So, how this is considered to be corruption if money are moved to somewhere? Isn't it what every government is doing, including various US funds helping all kinds of crooks abroad?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering

> Money laundering is the illegal process of concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions. The overall scheme of this process returns the money to the launderer in an obscure and indirect way.

How this proves that the money

1) has been moved 'illegally' (which authority is responsible)

2) linked to Putin's family personally

3) linked to the 'uncovered' scheme

This is what I call jumping between the facts