RUSSIAN BILLS OF LADING TRADE FRAUD ON THE INCREASE
October 1st, 2008
BY JAMES FLYNN
RUSSIAN organised crime has left its fingerprints across eastern and western Europe in recent years. But now the gangs have begun to turn their sights on the international shipping industry, manipulating documents that are fundamental to the movement of international cargo for their own - usually money laundering - ends. James Flynn reports.
IT'S been labelled the "fraud of no goods". Russian organised crime networks have picked up on one of the easiest ways in which to move virtual cargoes around the world, both as a means of parting ...
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