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Apr 13, 2018
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The infamous FBME Bank Ltd., a Tanzania-based financial institution operating primarily out of Cyprus, played a major role in helping Viktor Khrapunov, the former mayor of Kazakhstan’s capital city Almaty, and his family launder hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen government funds, according to documents from federal courts in the United States.

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