forces in ukraine have have been charged with being mercenaries, according to russian state media. and more than a million people are gathering on the streets of london for pride, as the lgbt plus community marks 50 years since the first march. now on bbc news, from russia with blood. are legal loopholes allowing russian criminals to launder dirty money? jim fitzpatrick follows the cash. money is just like clothes. the dirtier it gets, the more it needs washing. and there s a lot of dirty money in the world. an estimated two trillion in us dollars gets washed each year. but money laundering is no domestic chore. it s the economic engine of terrorism. ..the drugs trade. ..dictatorship. .. ..and war. and where do international criminals go when they need their money cleaned 7 in recent years, it s often been northern ireland. it s thanks to secret little northern ireland companies that allow criminals across the world to make a clean killing. they re called northern ireland lim
developers. the accounts filed in montenegro tell us little about what went on and how the irish property developers did business. you have to ask, did they do any basic checks on the person who was handing them 1.4 million euro for seven apartments? ireland has sophisticated money laundering laws, and checks on property buyers are routine. but maybe not in montenegro. the developers marketed the properties in montenegro through an irish registered partnership called baltimore holdings. it had a website. when we look at the website we learn some things. this is an archive of how it would have looked injune 2008. so we see baltimore
on what we ve uncovered and the remaining questions we have for the irish developers. the accounts filed in montenegro tell us little about what went on and how the irish property developers did business. you have to ask, did they do any basic checks on the person who was handing them 1.4 million euro for seven apartments? ireland has sophisticated money laundering laws, and checks on property buyers are routine. but maybe not in montenegro. the developers marketed the properties in montenegro through an irish registered partnership called baltimore holdings. it had a website. when we look at the website we learn some things. this is an archive of how it would have looked injune 2008. so we see baltimore holdings there.
montenegro tell us little about what went on, and how the irish property developers did business. you have to ask, did they do any basic checks on the person who was handing them 1.4 million euro for seven apartments? ireland has sophisticated money laundering laws, and checks on property buyers are routine, but maybe not in montenegro. the developers marketed the properties in montenegro through an irish registered partnership called baltimore holdings. it had a website. when we look at the website, we learn some things. this is an archive of how it would have looked injune 2008. so we see baltimore holdings there, a smarter investment , a nice picture, but we also see the website is offered in two languages, english and russian.
when we look at the website we learn some things. this is an archive of how it would have looked injune 2008. so we see baltimore holdings there. a smarter investment. a nice picture. but we also see that the website is offered in two languages, english and russian. and when we look at the contact addresses, there s a postal address in cork but sales offices notjust in montenegro but also in russia. the russian market, a key focus for the sales. it s not entirely clear who was really running celtic properties d00 at the time. we contacted the surviving people who were listed as shareholders. they either declined to comment or denied they were personally involved in, or gained from, any property sales. bill browder had identified one apartment linked to the russian blood money. spotlight has uncovered a name behind that purchase and six other deals totalling 1.4 million euro.