Money-Laundering Network Linked To Drugs and Ransomware Disrupted

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed details of Operation Destabilise, a years-long international law enforcement investigation into a giant Russian money laundering enterprise that handled billions of dollars for drug traffickers and ransomware gangs worldwide. The multi-billion dollar Smart and TGR networks are said to have used a complex system of cash handovers and cryptocurrency exchanges to move illicit funds, making it difficult for the authorities to trace. According to an announcement by the NCA, it has disrupted TGR and Smart, and arrested 84 Russian-speaking people so…