The almost non-existent know-your-customer/anti-money laundering (KYC/AML) procedures allow users to buy and sell crypto via Bankoff without revealing their identity, Dossier said. (An OTC is a broker-dealer as opposed to a centralized exchange.)
To close a deal with [OTC Broker] Bankoff, one must go to the Federation Tower of the fancy Moscow City business district in Russia's capital, and bring cash to the office.
[T]he office space belongs to a company named Bratsk Electric Networks [which] owns a crypto mining farm in the Russian city of Bratsk, It is owned by three people, of which [is Andrei Lugovoi's wife, Ksenia Lugovaya].
Andrei Lugovoi [is] the Russian parliament's chief crypto expert.
Lugovoi, an ex-KGB officer [...], participated in the poisoning [and murder of another] ex-KGB officer and defector Alexander Litvinenko.

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