The Great Moscow Bank Shakedown

摘要

Kirill Cherkalin told his parents the piles of cash stashed at their apartment-$50 million, €1.8 million (S1.9 million), and 17 million rubles ($267,000)-were "for work." At the downtown pad he shared with a girlfriend he had shoeboxes, tote bags, and suitcases stuffed with S22 million, €6.5 million, and 794 million rubles. In his supercharged Mercedes-Benz SUV: $200,000. All told, he had some $100 million in various currencies, dozens of pricey timepieces such as gold-and-diamond Patek Philippes, four apartments, and a 5,000-square-foot house in Razdory, a leafy suburb where rich Muscovites keep homes modeled on English country estates.