A Russian Communist lawmaker accused the “Jewish banking mafia” of money- laundering for Russian organized crime in a scheme involving a U.S. bank. In the article published by the nationalist newspaper Zavtra, or Tomorrow, Yuri Ivanov noted the Jewish-sounding names of the individuals who have been linked to an alleged scheme to funnel more than $15 billion out of Russia through the Bank of New York.
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