Article: RUSSIA: SWISS INVESTIGATOR PROCEEDS WITH IMF LOAN CASE.

Geneva Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet said on 14 August that he had ordered raids on two banks in the Ticino canton in connection with the possible diversion of a $4.8 billion IMF loan to Russia in 1998, UPI reported. Kasper-Ansermet is one of the Swiss investigators currently carrying out a broader investigation of alleged money laundering through western institutions, including the Bank of New York and the Republic National Bank. Meanwhile, Aleksei Kudrin, the vice prime minister for finance, told RBK on 15 August that the Russian government had not been informed ...

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