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The Coin Laundry

November

Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov is the alleged mastermind of a series of cryptocurrency scams. He co-wrote a new film starring Kevin Spacey and produced by Elvira Gavrilova.

Inside a Russian crypto guru’s Hollywood gambit

How the alleged mastermind of a multimillion-dollar crypto scam teamed up with a globe-trotting influencer and a disgraced Oscar winner as he pushed his latest dubious project.

Inside the crypto underworld enabling ‘unlimited’ crime

From gritty backrooms in Kyiv to gleaming towers in Dubai, a parallel banking system turning crypto into cash is operating in anonymity and ripe for abuse.

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