Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from International Organized Crime and Its Impact on the United States: Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, May 25, 1994
The banking profession has allegedly become particularly dan gerons in Russia as organized crime groups attempt to take over banks by whatever means necessary. Last year, 30 bankers were murdered across Russia. Bank fraud has also become a hallmark of Russian crime groups. Stephen Handelman, author of an upcom ing book on Russian organized crime entitled Comrade Criminal, recently reported how Russian investigators, in 1992, uncovered a plot to swindle the Russian State Bank out of 25 million rubles, then worth about billion. Through bribes, a crime syndicate planned to get bank tellers in Moscow and other cities to accept false credit notes presented at their windows. According to Handelman, investigators said that if the scheme had been success ful, Russia's monetary system would have been threatened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
