RUSSIA FEATURE
January 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWEIF you open the window, flies will enter your home but in post-Soviet Russia it wasn't just the windows but the doors too that were flung wide open.Organised gangs, drawn by the sweet smell of easy pickings, duly swarmed all over the decaying house of Lenin.Yet Russia, saddled with notoriety for its particularly ruthless tradition of organised crime, has recently made great strides to clean up its act with regard to money laundering. A new financial monitoring committee opened for business last year, with Viktor Zubkov, formerly chief tax inspector ...
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