NCA exposes a billion-dollar Russian ML network that allegedly bought a Lithuanian bank to funnel war-funding, revealing a sophisticated web of shell firms, corrupt intermediaries and global illicit finance

Through Operation Destabilise, the NCA uncovers a sprawling criminal network operating across at least 28 UK cities that funnels cash from drugs, firearms, and people-smuggling into cryptocurrency, and which uses a bank acquisition in Kyrgyzstan to channel funds to entities supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex. To date, authorities have arrested 128 suspects and seized more than £25 million in cash ….