A case was opened against four residents of Kamchatka for the legalization of 712 million rubles.

A criminal case on money laundering in the amount of more than 712 million rubles has been initiated against four residents of the Kamchatka Territory suspected of laundering criminal proceeds. This was reported on June 26 in the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the region.

"A criminal case has been opened against four members of an organized criminal group suspected of money laundering on an especially large scale," the Maks messenger says.

According to investigators, the defendants were part of an organized criminal group and in the period from 2019 to 2025 stole more than 1 billion rubles, which were withdrawn through controlled legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.

Then they conducted over a thousand financial transactions and concluded several transactions, as a result of which they legalized more than 712 million rubles. The Investigative Committee clarified that a criminal case had been initiated under clauses "a" and "b" of Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code ("Money laundering committed by an organized group using official position").

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