IN MOSCOW: MDM and Sobinbank have links to Russian bankers who funded Boris Yeltsin’s 1996 re-election campaign. They also controlled DKB and Flamingo banks.

THE NEW YORK CONNECTION: Money flowed from DKB and Flamingo, which had no banking license in the U.S., into the Bank of New York accounts of front companies set up by Berlin–Benex, BECS and Lowland

LAUNDERED MONEY: Once the money was in the front companies, it could be moved offshore