The Financial Times uncovered records showing that Assad’s regime, while desperately short of foreign currency, flew banknotes weighing nearly two tonnes in $100 bills and €500 notes into Moscow’s Vnukovo airport to be deposited at sanctioned Russian banks between 2018 and 2019. https://on.ft.com/3DdReLh
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Apparently there's ~$150.000.000.000 missing
Apt idioms:
Like 2 peas in a pod.
Birds of a feather…
(If reliable is important to you, of course.)
Like Mr. Prigozhin. He had many cubic metres of money, gold etc. and he gave it all up!
"For the Good of the Cause."
He was just planning ahead, sending some "walking around money" there for safe keeping.
You don't say.....