The leaked secret documents of the US financial intelligence (FinCEN) exposed the criminal schemes of oligarchs from different countries, which allowed them from 1999 to 2017 to launder about $ 2 trillion through the largest banks. The information was published by the international investigative project of journalists "Kassandra", which is carried out by 110 media from 88 countries, including ICIJ, BuzzFeed and OCCRP. #FinCENFiles: Secret documents show how criminals use famous banks to finance terror and death, and the government doesn't stop it https://t.co/7Jv9RU5txj - BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) September 20, 2020 Investigation based on leaked more 2100 Suspicious Financial Activity Reports (SARs) that global banks file with FinCEN. A number of financial transactions that have caught the attention of FinCEN are associated with Russian oligarchs. Among them are entrepreneurs Oleg Deripaska, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, ex-head of Boris Yeltsin's administration and presidential adviser Valentin Yumashev, as well as cellist and close acquaintance of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Roldugin. According to FinCEN, the American holding company Bank of New York Mellon transferred more than $ 1.3 billion "related to Oleg Deripaska" from 1997 to 2016. According to the documents, transactions worth $ 11 billion were made through Deutsche Bank from 2003 to 2017 in the interests of Deripaska.The Rotenberg brothers, despite the sanctions, carried out international settlements through the London bank Barclays, writes the BBC who participated in the investigation. Arkady Rotenberg donated $ 7.5 million to buy La Poitrine by René Magritte. Earlier this fact was pointed out by the US Senate, but the businessman's representative denied the accusations, calling the deal legal. Putin's adviser Valentin Yumashev, according to journalists, received $ 6 million from Epion Holdings Limited from the British Virgin Islands. The company is reportedly owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov. Sandalwood Continental, associated with the cellist Roldugin, in October 2010 received $ 830,000 from Cypriot Dulston Ventures, allegedly for extending a loan agreement. According to the consortium, Dulston Ventures is on the list of affiliates of several Russian companies that are part of the Severgroup of billionaire Alexei Mordashov. The ICIJ database compiled from FinCEN reports contains information on 3810 potentially suspicious transactions involving the largest Russian banks (Sberbank, VTB, Rosbank, Alfa-Bank, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank, Raiffeisenbank and others). In total, financial institutions of the Russian Federation received $ 7.28 billion, and sent $ 3.50 billion. The most active foreign counterparty in these transfers was Bank of New York Mellon (2992 transactions). Among the Ukrainian companies in the scandal are the structures of Igor Kolomoisky, Rinat Akhmetov, Dmitry Firtash, associate of Viktor Yanukovich Yuri Ivanyushchenko, Andrey Klyuev and others.