From the streets of the UK to the battlefields of Ukraine, a billion-dollar network ties drug deals to Russian military funding. The web is more tangled than you think.

Middle class drug users buying cocaine for their Friday night dinner party could be helping supply Russian weapons to arrive on the frontline in the war in Ukraine . The direct link between street drug deals and the Russian state was exposed as a billion-dollar money laundering network operating across the UK was found to have bought a bank in Kyrgystan to facilitate the evasion of sanctions and provide payments to support Vladimir Putin ’s military efforts.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) warn that money launderers who work for this network operate in at least 28 UK cities and towns but are risking lengthy jail terms

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