Russian authorities detect illegal transfers of money into Baltic banks

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The economic security and anti-corruption department of the Russian Interior Ministry has detected illegal transfers of large amounts of funds from Moscow to non-residents' bank accounts in Estonia and Latvia, the ministry said in a press release.

It has been established on the basis of documents that first fictitious measuring apparatus supply contracts were concluded with foreign legal entities after which more than one billion rubles (EUR more than 19 million) was transferred to non-residents' accounts in Estonian and Latvian banks. The apparatus for which the transfers were made actually never reached Russia.

A criminal investigation has been launched. In its framework searches of the homes and offices of 15 suspects have taken place in the course of which documents and objects have been seized.

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