The Russian Ex-Con With a Thriving Banking Business in Crimea
- Indicted in U.S. stock fraud, Dvoskin builds bank in Russia
- Central bank said to have tried to block expansion but failed
Yevgeny Dvoskin in his Simferopol office. Photographer: Evgenia Pismennaya/Bloomberg
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Yevgeny Dvoskin says he’s “no angel.”
As he tells it, he knows the tricks of the money launderer’s trade. He was deported from the U.S. after tax-fraud convictions. He has served as an aide to the man suspected by U.K. authorities of poisoning former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. Protection from the KGB’s successor helped him fend off extortion allegations in Moscow.