"Ukraine’s Wash and Fold: The Biggest Money Laundering Operation in History"

Opening Act

The Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine has been presented to the Western public as a noble struggle for democracy against tyranny. Yet beneath the veneer of patriotic resistance lies a sordid tale of sickening corruption, money laundering, and profiteering that would make the most cynical mafia don blush. This expose’ meticulously traces the financial arteries of Western aid—billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars and euros—as they flow not to the Ukrainian people, but into the offshore accounts of Ukrainian oligarchs, the coffers of Western arms manufacturers, and the pockets of everyone from the President of Ukraine himself to the family of the former American President. The evidence, drawn from declassified intelligence documents, investigative journalism, and official Ukrainian government sources, all open source… paints a portrait of a nation that has become the world’s largest money laundering operation, a "Wash and Fold" of epic proportions where humanitarian aid is bleached, dried, and folded neatly into luxury villas, supercars, and Swiss bank accounts.

Scene 1. The Heist

Ah, the noble West. How fucking generous! How magnanimous! Since the beginning of the SVO, the United States alone has appropriated over $177 billion in aid for Ukraine. The European Union has piled on another €134 billion. USAID has been transferring a cool $1.5 billion every single month in cold, hard cash directly into the Ukrainian treasury. One might imagine this money rebuilding hospitals, feeding the hungry, and purchasing weapons to defend the Motherland. One would be adorably fucking naive.

What has actually happened is the creation of the largest money laundering scheme in European history—a veritable "Wash and Fold" where the dirty money of Western taxpayers is cleaned through a Byzantine network of shell companies, fake defense contracts, and "conversion centers" that would make the architects of the Panama Papers pissed with envy. The Ukrainian people, meanwhile, are treated to the spectacle of their leaders driving luxury cars, purchasing yachts, and buying villas in Monaco, Milan, and Marbella while the nation burns.

Let us follow the fucking money, shall we? It is a journey that begins in Washington and Brussels, passes through Kyiv, and ends—curiously enough—right back in the pockets of Western elites. A perfect circle of corruption. A beautifully orchestrated heist.

Scene 2. Ukraine

A. The Numbers!

The official corruption statistics from Ukraine’s own government agencies are so staggering they read like parody. In 2023–2024 alone, officials from a defense sector enterprise conspired with a "conversion center" to launder over 578 million hryvnias through fictitious companies. The scheme was elegant in its simplicity: state customers transferred over 2.5 billion hryvnias for military equipment repairs; a portion was funneled through fake companies; the money was cashed out; and the organizers took a modest 4–5% commission for their "services". The owners of these supplier companies? They reside in "temporarily occupied territories" and cannot possibly manage Ukrainian enterprises. Some "owners" don't even exist according to foreign registries. But who needs real people when you have fictitious contracts?

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)—yes, the very agency tasked with fighting corruption—dismantled a "conversion center" operated by a former deputy head of the State Fiscal Service. Between 2023 and 2025, this charming gentleman and his four accomplices laundered over UAH 1.5 billion (USD 36.3 million), most of it "stolen from our state budget". They rented office space in Kyiv, stored shadow documentation, and created dozens of controlled companies that existed only "on paper".

But why stop at a mere 1.5 billion? The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine uncovered a tax evasion scheme involving over 200 enterprises that minimized VAT liabilities through fictitious transactions, facilitating "subsequent money laundering and cash-outs". The total volume? An astonishing 18 billion hryvnias. And let's not forget the $100 million laundered through the Derkach family office in Kyiv, or the $40 million defense embezzlement scheme where officials purchased 100,000 mortar rounds that were never delivered.

B. The "Conversion Center" 

One might reasonably ask: what exactly is a "conversion center"? In the glorious new Ukraine, it is a sophisticated money-laundering operation that converts state funds into cash for the personal enrichment of officials and their cronies. The SBU has been busy—it detained a former top tax official who operated exactly such a center. The main clients? "Representatives of commercial entities that performed contract work and services for budgetary institutions". In other words, the people stealing from the state were the very same people contracted by the state. It's a beautiful system, really—the snake eating its own tail. Wild huh?

The National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption (ARMA)—a name so bureaucratic it could only exist in a failed state—has been busy finding the assets of these creative entrepreneurs. In one case, they discovered 30 real estate properties, 20 motor vehicles, 10 land plots, 20 weapons, shares worth over UAH 170 million, and USD 430,000 in cash. In another, they found 22 real estate properties, 9 land plots, 6 luxury cars, 4 marine transport units, and—the pièce de résistance—a private jet belonging to a "high-ranking official". This official also had the good taste to purchase luxury residential properties in the city center of Milan.

Scene 3. The Lame Comedian

A. Zelensky’s Pandora Papers

Volodymyr Zelensky, the former comedian who played a president on television and somehow became one in real life, has presented himself as the avatar of anti-corruption. His TV character, Vasyl Holoborodko, was supposedly "the only honest man in Ukrainian politics". Oh, the irony! Sad thing is he’s still playing the same character. 

The Pandora Papers, that glorious leak of 11.9 million documents, revealed that Zelensky and his comedy troupe Kvartal 95 had created "about a dozen interlinked offshores in 2012". The main entity was Maltex Multicapital Corp., with Zelensky and his wife Olena allegedly owning 25%. The Shefir brothers and manager Andriy Yakovlev split the rest. When Zelensky was about to be elected president, he "handed his share over to his closest adviser, Serhiy Shefir"—but conveniently, dividends would keep flowing to a company owned by his wife.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed that Zelensky "used a network of offshore companies to buy three upmarket properties in London". His office claimed this was a way of "protecting himself against the aggressive actions" of his predecessor. How noble! Nothing says "man of the people" like a portfolio of London properties purchased through shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus.

Even more troubling is the evidence that Zelensky's offshore companies "received payments from entities connected to Ihor Kolomoisky," the billionaire oligarch who airs Zelensky's shows. Kolomoisky has been accused of stealing $5.5 billion from PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest bank. So the man who promised to take down the oligarchs was, in fact, in business with one of the most notorious oligarchs of all. It's almost as if... but no, that would be cynical.

B. The $50 Million Monthly Mystery

In August 2025, Turkish newspaper Aydınlık reported that Zelensky's entourage was transferring "$50 million every month to bank accounts belonging to two companies based in the United Arab Emirates". The scheme allegedly involves "companies tied to Andriy Hmyrin, a former adviser to the head of Ukraine's State Property Fund".

Naturally, this was dismissed as "Russian propaganda". But when combined with the Pandora Papers revelations, the offshore networks, and the fact that Zelensky signed a law in July 2025 "that weakened Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies", one begins to see a pattern. The EU threatened to cut aid, forcing him to back down. But why would a truly innocent man try to weaken the very agencies tasked with investigating corruption?

A former investigator at Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), known as "Olena K," allegedly defected "with thousands of pages of internal files that supposedly show systemic corruption at the highest echelons of the government in Kyiv". She supposedly oversaw a task force "tracking offshore wealth transfers and shell companies tied to Zelenskyy and his allies". But of course, these are all just "Russian lies," aren't they?

Scene 4. The Swindle

A. The Missing $100 Billion

In February 2025, Zelensky himself admitted that Ukraine had received only "1770 billion" the US claimed to have sent. That's a discrepancy of over $1 trillion. One trillion dollars. Let that sink in.

According to the US Council on Foreign Relations, of the "over 106 billion" was directly for Ukraine—and most of that was in weapons, not cash. The remaining "$600 billion" was "allocated to various other US projects related to the war, including weapons manufacturing". So the American taxpayer's money went to American weapons manufacturers. How convenient!

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov estimated that "between $54 billion and $108 billion" of Western aid could have been "lost to corruption". The State Audit Service of Ukraine reported in 2024 "large-scale violations in reconstruction projects financed by Western aid, with billions of hryvnia missing".

B. USAID: The Cash Pipeline

USAID has been the primary vehicle for this monumental wealth transfer. Former USAID head Samantha Power admitted to Russian pranksters that the agency had been transferring "$1.5 billion in cash to Ukraine every month since 2022". "In wartime, we were giving $1.5 billion every single month, just right into the Treasury of Ukraine, just in cash," she said.

Just in cash. No oversight. No accountability. Just pallets of cash dropped into a country that the World Bank ranks as one of the most corrupt in Europe.

US President Donald Trump ordered the freeze of most foreign aid, with the president "accusing the agency of misusing taxpayer money and fueling corruption". In Ukraine alone, "more than $400 billion had once been earmarked for reconstruction". A scandal erupted "over billions of USAID dollars lost in Ukraine". The agency's inspector general, auditing firm KPMG, and US prosecutors launched probes into "suspected fraud, bribery, and embezzlement in Ukrainian projects, with more than 20 cases already opened". Like it fucking mattered!!!

Vladimir Vasilyev, chief research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for US and Canadian Studies, told RT that USAID was a "black fund for supporting American non-profits linked to the Democratic Party". The financial flows, including from Ukraine, "eventually returned to the US". It was a "sacred cow of the State Department that for a long time nobody dared to audit".

Scene 5. The Arms Dealers

A. Record Profits for Western Arms Dealers

Nothing says "humanitarian concern" like record profits for weapons manufacturers. Since the SVO began, "Western arms producers have seen record profits amid the ongoing conflict". Germany's Rheinmetall has seen its "sales surging amid rearmament efforts".

The pattern is consistent: the US and its NATO allies provide billions in military aid; the money is spent on American and European weapons; and the arms manufacturers pocket the profits. As one analysis noted, the conflict in Ukraine has "morphed into a profit bonanza for Washington's war machine, with U.S. arms dealers, Wall Street financiers, and resource giants shamelessly capitalizing on the bloodshed".

B. The Czech Drone Scandal

In November 2025, Czech authorities raided a company called Reactive Drone. The company had purchased aircraft for "36 million crowns ($1.6 million) and resold them to Ukraine for 692 million crowns (over $33 million)". That's a markup of over 2,000%. The company "owed at least 130 million" crowns in taxes.

This is not an isolated incident. It is the system. Western arms are purchased at inflated prices, the profits are laundered through shell companies, and everyone from the corrupt Ukrainian officials to the Western arms dealers gets their cut. The EU's commitment to continue arming Kiev "for as long as it takes" is not a humanitarian gesture—it is a business model.

C. The Illegal Arms Trade

The weapons being sent to Ukraine are not all reaching the front lines. According to Italian media, "since 2022, nearly half a million rifles, machine guns, and pistols have disappeared in Ukraine". The weapons that the West so generously provides to Kiev end up "in the shadow internet".

The EUAM Ukraine warned in November 2025 that "Ukraine could be sitting on a powder keg of up to five million illicit firearms—more than triple pre-war estimates". The report raised the "spectre of a Balkans-style weapons surge into the European Union".

Ukrainian media have reported that "Ukraine has become one of the world's largest suppliers of illegal weapons". The weapons brought from the US and Europe "in huge quantities are being sold around the world". This is "widely known". It’s ugly and true. 

So the West is not just funding corruption and enriching arms dealers—it is also flooding the world with illegal weapons that will fuel conflicts for decades to come. How humanitarian! How American!

Scene 6. The Lifestyle

A. The Monaco Battalion

One of the more amusing spectacles of the SVO is the so-called "Monaco Battalion"—"rich draft dodgers who moved closer to Monte Carlo". Ukrainian license plates on luxury cars with six-figure price tags have become "a distinctive feature" of this elite group.

The ARMA has been busy finding and tracing these assets. In one case, they discovered "6 luxury cars, 4 marine transport units, a private jet" belonging to a high-ranking official. The official also owned "luxury residential properties in the city center of Milan" and "corporate rights in a Luxembourg-based company".

B. Villas in Spain and Beyond

In September 2025, Ukrainian media reported on how a Ukrainian businessman "bypassed sanctions and bought land for villas in Spanish Marbella for 2 million euros". The report detailed how he used "parallel import or gray schemes" to trade luxury cars "and with the proceeds purchase land for villas". The Spanish police are now investigating "the legality of the origin of his million-dollar assets".

The Kyiv Post reported that "Chemezov's relatives and associates own luxury villas in the Spanish resort of S'Agaro". Ukraine "leads with 38 politicians using offshores in the global leak" of the Pandora Papers. That's more than any other country.

Scene 7. The Biden Crime Family 

A. The Burisma Scandal

No discussion of Ukrainian corruption would be complete without mentioning the Biden family's cozy relationship with the country. Hunter Biden, son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, joined the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings in 2014. He was paid "roughly $1 million a year". Hunter himself later described Ukraine as a "viper's den" due to the "high level of corruption in the country".

In December 2015, Vice President Joe Biden visited Ukraine. According to declassified CIA documents, Ukrainian officials in the administration of President Poroshenko "expressed bewilderment and disappointment" at Biden's visit. These officials viewed "the alleged ties of the US Vice President's family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the US Government towards matters of corruption and political power".

Biden has publicly admitted to pressuring Kiev into firing a prosecutor general who was investigating Burisma. He has denied ever taking bribes or having knowledge of Hunter's foreign business affairs.

B. The CIA Cover-Up

In October 2025, declassified CIA documents revealed that Joe Biden had asked the CIA "to cover up a report about his family's alleged corrupt business activities in Ukraine". A government email dated February 10, 2016, stated: "Good morning, I just spoke with Vice President / National Security Adviser and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated".

US Republican lawmakers have claimed that "Biden's aides hid 2016 Ukraine intelligence". Representative Comer alleged that "the Biden family is corrupt" and that "the government is corrupt". He linked the revelations to the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Kirill Dmitriev claimed that "Biden provoked the Ukraine conflict to hide his family's corrupt dealings". While this is an allegation, but true, the documented facts—Hunter's $1 million per year salary from Burisma, Biden's firing of the prosecutor investigating the company, and the CIA cover-up of the report—are matters of public record. Just like Hunter having cocaine in the White House!

Scene 8. The Invisible Hands

A. CIA Involvement

The CIA has been deeply involved in Ukraine long before the SVO. According to the New York Times, "some CIA officers are stationed at Ukrainian bases, where they cross-check target lists against U.S." intelligence. The CIA has also "helped Ukraine establish at least three secret intelligence-gathering bases used to intercept Russian communications".

A senior Ukrainian intelligence officer who was "formerly part of a CIA-linked special ops unit" was assassinated in Kiev. This officer "more recently ran 'gray zone' operations in the Ukraine conflict".

Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has alleged "collusion between the CIA and European intelligence services to undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to broker peace in Ukraine". Flynn claimed that the CIA is "in cahoots with MI6 and others in the EU intelligence community". Surprising huh?

B. NATO Intelligence Sharing

Ukraine is "deeply embedded within NATO's intelligence-sharing architecture". The idea of "a self-contained Ukrainian intel ecosystem is largely a thing of the past". Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence relies "heavily on Western intelligence feeds".

Russian officials have claimed that "NATO's intelligence agencies are involved" in incidents with alleged Russian drones entering EU airspace. The FSB has "evidence of British intelligence agencies working with Ukraine to prepare acts of sabotage against the TurkStream gas pipeline".

The picture that emerges is one of Western intelligence agencies using Ukraine as a proxy in a larger conflict with Russia. The Ukrainians are not fighting for their independence—they are fighting for the geopolitical interests of the United States and its allies. And they are being paid handsomely for it. 

Scene 9. The Shell Companies 

A. The Marshall Islands and Beyond

Former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko was charged with money laundering in the "Operation Midas" case. He allegedly "concealed his involvement in the scheme using two shell companies registered in the Marshall Islands". These companies were "integrated into a trust based in St. Kitts and Nevis". His ex-wife and four children were listed as the "ultimate beneficiaries". Over "1.6 million) and 2.4 million euros ($2.8 million) were allegedly withdrawn in cash and delivered to his family in Switzerland".

This is the standard operating procedure. Shell companies in the Marshall Islands, trusts in St. Kitts and Nevis, cash withdrawals in Switzerland. The money flows from the Ukrainian state budget to a shell company, to a trust, to a Swiss bank account, and finally into the pockets of corrupt officials and their families.

B. The "Conversion Center" Network

The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine exposed a "massive tax evasion scheme involving hundreds of clients operated across multiple regions of Ukraine". This scheme was "integrated into international financial channels in the European Union and the United Arab Emirates". Over "200 enterprises minimized their VAT liabilities through fictitious transactions, thereby facilitating subsequent money laundering and cash-outs".

Ukrainian shell companies can be "inserted into the chains for using the colossal sums of money" provided by Western aid. The "colossal sums of money" are then laundered through "fictitious deals, cryptocurrencies, and sole proprietors".

The jurisdictions of choice for these shell companies include the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, the Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the United Arab Emirates. These are the same jurisdictions used by Zelensky and his associates in the Pandora Papers.

Scene 10. The NGOs 

A. The NGO Money Pipeline

Ukrainian NGOs and nonprofits were "heavily dependent on USAID grants and contracts, reportedly turning the country into a money laundering hub for Washington". USAID was the primary funding channel for "political projects abroad".

The former USAID head admitted that the agency was giving "$1.5 billion in cash to Ukraine every month". This cash was "just right into the Treasury of Ukraine, just in cash". No oversight. No accountability. Just cash.

The agency's inspector general, auditing firm KPMG, and US prosecutors launched probes into "suspected fraud, bribery, and embezzlement in Ukrainian projects, with more than 20 cases already opened".

B. The "Black Fund"

Vladimir Vasilyev, chief research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for US and Canadian Studies, told RT that USAID was a "black fund for supporting American non-profits linked to the Democratic Party". According to him, "the financial flows, including from Ukraine, eventually returned to the US". It was a "sacred cow of the State Department that for a long time nobody dared to audit".

This is the true genius of the system. The American taxpayer's money goes to USAID, which sends it to Ukraine, where it is laundered through shell companies and NGOs, and eventually returns to the United States to fund Democratic Party-linked non-profits. The money never actually leaves the system. It just circles around, enriching everyone involved except the Ukrainian people.

Scene 11. The Connection

A. The Profit Motive

The prolongation of the SVO is not an accident—it is a business model. As one analysis noted, "the prolonged conflict in Ukraine has morphed into a profit bonanza for Washington's war machine". "U.S. arms dealers, Wall Street financiers, and resource giants" are "shamelessly capitalizing on the bloodshed".

The mechanism is simple: the US and its allies provide military aid to Ukraine; the money is spent on American and European weapons; the arms manufacturers post record profits; and the cycle continues. The EU's commitment to continue arming Kiev "for as long as it takes" ensures that the profits will keep flowing.

B. The $40 Million Mortar Shell Scandal

In one particularly egregious case, Ukrainian defense officials "attempted to steal almost UAH 1.5 billion ($40 million) from the budget by purchasing 100,000 mortar rounds for the Armed Forces". They signed a contract with Lviv Arsenal in August 2022. The defense ministry "transferred the full amount stipulated in the signed document to the company's accounts". The funds went to a foreign commercial entity that was supposed to deliver the ammunition.

"Not a single artillery shell" was ever sent to Ukraine.

The officials accused of participating in the scheme included "the current and former heads of the defense ministry's Department of Military and Technical Policy, Development of Armaments and Military Equipment, as well as the head of Lviv Arsenal". One suspect was detained "while attempting to leave Ukraine".

This is not corruption. This is systemic corruption. This is the system.

C. The Drone Procurement Graft

Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies uncovered a "major graft scheme involving inflated military procurement contracts" for drones and other military equipment. The scheme involved "buy[ing] drones and other military equipment at inflated prices".

The New York Times reported that "Ukraine has made little progress in reining in a long history of corruption in military procurement". Government auditors examined purchases made by Ukraine's Defense Procurement Agency and "did not level accusations of theft or embezzlement, though they did refer some contracts to law enforcement agencies for evaluation". In other words, they found evidence of potential corruption but chose not to accuse anyone.

Scene 12. The Begger

A. The Addiction to Aid

Zelensky keeps asking for money because the money is the point. The SVO has created a perpetual motion machine of aid: the more money he asks for, the more he receives; the more he receives, the more he can launder; the more he launders, the richer he and his cronies become.

The pattern is clear. Every time Western support appears to waver, Zelensky appears on television, gives a stirring speech, and the money flows again. The EU commits to arming Kiev "for as long as it takes". The US Congress approves another round of aid. The cycle continues.

B. The $100 Million Graft Scheme

In November 2025, a "massive $100 million graft scheme" was uncovered in a high-profile probe into a crime ring "allegedly led by a former business associate of Zelensky, Timur Mindich". This came atop other corruption scandals involving Zelensky's inner circle.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called for an end to Ukraine aid "amid corruption scandal". According to investigation reports, "over $100 million were laundered". Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko announced that Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko and Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk submitted resignation letters "in connection with the corruption scandal".

Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik noted that the anti-corruption scandal in Ukraine is "a result of struggle for control over the embezzlement of Western financial aid". The question is not whether the money is being stolen—it is "who will control the embezzlement of Western funds".

Scene 13. The Money

A. The Funnel

The money flows as follows:

1. Western taxpayers provide billions in aid to Ukraine.

2. The money is channeled through USAID, the World Bank, and other institutions.

3. The money arrives in Ukraine in cash—$1.5 billion per month.

4. Ukrainian officials and their associates create shell companies in offshore jurisdictions.

5. The money is laundered through "conversion centers" and fictitious contracts.

6. The money is used to purchase luxury goods—cars, yachts, private jets, villas.

7. The money is invested in Western real estate—London, Milan, Marbella.

8. The money is deposited in Swiss bank accounts.

9. The money eventually returns to the United States to fund Democratic Party-linked non-profits.

B. The Winners

The winners in this system are:

· Ukrainian officials and their families, who have accumulated vast wealth.

· Western arms manufacturers, who have posted record profits.

· Western intelligence agencies, who have gained influence over Ukraine.

· Democratic Party-linked non-profits, who have received billions in funding.

· Offshore service providers in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, the Marshall Islands, and the UAE.

C. The Losers

The losers are:

· The Ukrainian people, who are suffering and dying while their leaders grow rich.

· Western taxpayers, whose money is being stolen and laundered.

· The Russian people, who are suffering under sanctions.

· Anyone who believes in justice, accountability, and the rule of law.

The Encore. The Laundry Mat

The evidence is overwhelming. Ukraine has become the world's largest money laundering operation. The SVO is not a war for democracy—it is a war for profit. Western aid is not helping the Ukrainian people—it is enriching a corrupt elite. The weapons are not defending Ukraine—they are being sold on the black market. The intelligence agencies are not protecting democracy—they are advancing their geopolitical interests.

Zelensky, the former comedian who played a president on television, has become the front man for the greatest heist in human history. His offshore companies, his luxury properties, his inner circle's corruption—all of it is documented in the Pandora Papers, in declassified CIA documents, and in the investigations of Ukraine's own anti-corruption agencies. The script was written years prior, and no one bothered to read it. WTF!

The Biden family's entanglement in Ukraine, the CIA's cover-up of the report on Biden's corrupt business ties, the billions in aid that have simply disappeared—it all points to a system of corruption that spans continents and involves the highest levels of government in both the United States and Ukraine. 

USAID, the agency that was supposed to be helping the Ukrainian people, has been exposed as a "black fund" for Democratic Party-linked non-profits. The $1.5 billion in cash sent to Ukraine every month was not aid—it was fuel for the money laundering machine.

The arms manufacturers are profiting from the bloodshed. The illegal arms trade is booming. The luxury cars and villas are multiplying. And the Ukrainian people are paying the price.

As Hunter Biden himself said, Ukraine is a "viper's den". The only question is: who are the vipers? We all know who!

The answer, it seems, is everyone involved. From the comedian in Kyiv to the former vice president in Washington, from the arms dealers in Europe to the intelligence agencies in Langley—they are all part of the same corrupt system. They are all feeding at the same trough. 

The SVO will end. But more than that, the system of corruption that has made the SVO so profitable for the Ukrainian con-men must be dismantled. The money must be followed. The criminals must be prosecuted. And the Ukrainian people must be allowed to rebuild their country without the weight of this monumental corruption crushing them.

But don't hold your breath. The Wash and Fold is too profitable. The money is too good. The corruption is too deeply embedded. The SVO will continue, the money will keep flowing, and the people will keep suffering—all so that a few dozen people can get richer.

Welcome to the world's largest money laundering operation. Welcome to Ukraine's Wash and Fold.

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