"The money screamed across the wires, its provenance fading
in a maze of electronic transfers, which shifted it, hid it, broke it up
into manageable wads which would be withdrawn and redeposited elsewhere,
obliterating the trail."
Nest of Vipers by Linda Davies
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See also Scandals involving Central Banks
N.B. Compare this case with the plot of Into the Fire, a fictional account of a Peruvian spy chief involved in money laundering, written before this revelation. A new edition of the novel is now out!
For a thriller about murder and fraud in the Russian aluminium industry see Forged Metal by Lesley Campbell.