A billion-pound money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan to fund the Russian war effort in Ukraine . The global operation, based in Moscow , links Britons "buying cocaine on a Friday night" to the "highest levels of organised crime" and the "Russian industrial military complex", the National Crime Agency revealed on Friday. It takes dirty cash from crime gangs for a fee and exchanges it for untraceable cryptocurrency, hiding illegal profits from police. The network