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In Moscow's Shadows 82: What Prigozhin Wants, What Putin Believes, and Why Russia Might Create its own Bureau 39

In Moscow's Shadows

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The North Korean Ministry of Organized Crime

The North Korean Ministry of Organized Crime was formed in the 1970s. Estimates range from $1.5 billion to just under $20 billion annually, says John Defterios. It sets up a whole variety of false front companies through which money can be rooted and laundered, he adds. This is a point when you actually have a state that has decided to fully embrace this particular dark side of the modern global order, defterios writes.

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