Russian beauty entrepreneur exposed for laundering billions of USD in USDT, aiding Wirecard spies to escape and funding military assassinations.

The NCA's revelation that Wirecard was hollowed out of money to enter London through the “Smart” network for espionage and assassination shows that cryptocurrencies are being weaponized. (Summary: Taiwan's Financial Regulatory Commission severely fined 6 major trading operators!) Involved in money laundering prevention law, lack of KYC, fines totaling 7.02 million yuan) (Background supplement: Ethereum is all illegal? New York prosecutors prosecute “MEV robot crime”: nodes should hold integrity duties, ranking transactions as fraud and money laundering) The UK's National Crime Fighting Agency (NCA) released a blockbuster report on the 20th, revealing the whereabouts of the evaporated funds after the Wirecard collapse in 2020: This multi-billion euro black hole is believed to be the former chief operating officer of Russian spies Jan Marsalek laundered through the “Smart” cryptocurrency network to fund spy surveillance and assassination plans on the streets of London. What was thought to be one of the biggest financial frauds in history for five years has now been exposed as a new arms supply for hybrid warfare. From accounting black holes to street assassinations The funding path was restored for the first time The NCA noted that instead of using the bank Swift system, Marsalek relied on the “Smart” network set up by Russian businessman Ekaterina Zhdanova, an underground clearing house that bought cash from British drug dealers and fraud syndicates, which were exchanged for Tether (USDT). Enable money flows to quickly jump across borders on the blockchain. It is understood that providing huge liquidity to customers, ranging from sanctioned British television station “Russia Today” to the Kingham family criminal group and more, Smart acts as an illegal clearing house, receiving cash in one country and providing equivalent funds in another. Records show that Zhdanova alone helped oligarchs move more than $100 million out of Russia, prompting the Smart network to be described as a “high-frequency money laundering service,” while the six newly convicted Bulgarians were paid £45,000 for spying on journalists and plotting attacks for Russian intelligence in London through Smart transfers. The court ruled to a maximum of 10 years in prison, marking the first time that the link of physical violence on the Smart chain has been judicially recognized. Street cash and geopolitical lines disappear Sal Melki, NCA's deputy director of economic crime, warned: “This financial chain directly links the street drug trade to global organised crime and state-sponsored terrorism.” The implication is that a drug deal completed in the back alleys of London could turn into explosives for drones in the open sea the next day, or travel expenses for overseas assassination organizations. In an effort to cut off the belt, British police have arrested 45 suspects and seized millions of pounds in cash in the past year, code-named Operation Destabilise, but law enforcement officials acknowledge that the speed and sophistication of decentralized networks is outpacing traditional forensics. Common bottom line under the divergence of attitudes between the United States and the United Kingdom Since the return of the Trump administration to the White House in 2025, Washington has shown a more tolerant stance on commercial cryptocurrencies, and the market has quickly recovered; However, once the gold flow comes to assassination or hostile intelligence, the United States and Britain are not soft on sanctions and freezing wallets. The NCA report prompted the two countries' financial intelligence units to set up a joint working group to cross-compare on-chain addresses with entry and exit lists in order to get a head start on the sequel to “Marsalek Mystery.” The regulatory focus has also gradually shifted from “whether to use cryptocurrencies” to “the behavior behind the wallet”. Law enforcement officials revealed that they are not locking in a single transaction, but a “island-hopping mode” in which multiple chains collide in a short period of time and then immediately cash out through an over-the-counter exchange (OTC). One official involved in the investigation described the Smart network as like putting a traditional underground money bank on a turbine engine, turning tracking into a race against algorithms. The Wirecard scandal, once seen as a case of regulatory failure in Germany, is now a prelude to understanding financial weaponization. From false accounting accounts to physical assassinations, Marsalek has allowed capital to transform roles on a hard-to-monitor highway. For law enforcement and regulators, the battleground is no longer bank ledgers, but nodes and hashes scattered around the world. As blockchain analytics companies work further with intelligence agencies, it may be possible to flag high-risk wallets in advance in the future, but the existence of the Smart network is also a reminder that as long as there is cash, cryptocurrencies and political conflicts around the world, funds can be freely deformed. There is no end to the cat-and-mouse game, and the Wirecard case is just the first dominoes to be revealed. Related reports 9 enterprises and 3 women in Taiwan are involved in the “Prince Group” fraud empire! 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