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Behind the Money

The Russian Banker, Part 2: The Whistleblower

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Sergei Leontiev says he was a political victim of the Putin regime. But when we tracked down other people who used to work at the bank they had a different story about Leontiev — and the extent of his ties to Alexei Navalny.


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We weren't sure what to make of what Sergei told us. It seemed plausible that he could be targeted by Russian authorities,

0:40.0

but it also seemed possible that this wasn't the whole story.

0:46.0

As we were reporting, it occurred to me that I'd actually covered the fall of Pro Business Bank

0:51.0

when I was working in Russia back in 2015. So I unearthed some of my

0:55.2

old stories and I found a quote from someone who said the situation at Pro

0:59.8

Business Bank was worse than people thought. This was the first clue that there might be more

1:05.0

here. So we started making lots of calls trying to track down people who worked

1:09.7

for and with Pro Business Bank, like this person.

1:13.0

As a foreigner, we had our own suspicion that something was going on.

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