[3pm]

There is no single 'Russia' and certainly not one entity _got_ the whole 1.9 billion. It looks like a fairly loosely coupled ecosystem of shady actors. They are privateers in a war. Not unlike Francis Drake. The war that everyone in Russia knows they're in.

[intuitionist]

No entity “got the whole 1.9 billion” because it was fictitious. The nature of the Wirecard fraud was (at least mostly) not that real profits were being siphoned off to nefarious entities, it’s that they were faking the profits.