Niko Shefer's takeover of Africa

Money from multinational oil companies moves through labyrinths of international bank accounts, avoiding national budgets and banks

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WASHINGTON, January 31, 2002 — Victor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker whose clandestine sales of weapons of war to some of the bloodiest r

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2002 — Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma personally authorized the clandestine sale of $100-million worth of high-tech