New BBC Report Sheds Light on Ukrainian Mafia's London-Based Money Laundering
Earlier today, the BBC published the results of its long awaited investigation into London property holdings of a prominent Odessa based Ukrainian mafia clan. The article boils down the results of the BBC’s investigative television show “Panorama,” which will be airing its documentary investigation tonight.
The bombshell investigation alleges that members of the clan and their immediate families engaged in money laundering in order to purchase high-end real estate properties in the middle of London. Deliciously , one of the homes is in an apartment building once occupied by T.S. Eliot. The allegations, while well known to experts on Ukrainian and Russian organized crime and professional Ukraine watchers, flesh out in an easy to comprehend popular manner the revelations of the so-called “Paradise Papers”, the November 2017 data hack of more than 13 million financial documents that were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. This investigation also focuses heavily on evidence provided to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project by Italian mafia investigators who were unable to open a case as none of the crimes were committed on Italian territory.