🇪🇪 An international consortium of journalists analyzed close to 300 Estonian-registered #crypto companies and discovered dozens of crimes: massive-scale fraud, money laundering, #sanctions evasion, and illicit financing of #Russian paramilitary organizations such as Wagner Group.

Reporters also found links between an Estonia-registered crypto company and #Sberbank, Russia’s largest, majority state-owned bank.

https://kyivindependent.com/investigation-baltic-registered-crypto-firms-service-payments-for-russian-private-army-allow-sanctions-evasion/

#estonia #russia #cryptocurrency