€75 million through “currency mules”: brothers Vladlen Hirin and Hennadiy Hirin, who laundered drug cartel money in the EU, are scrubbing the internet of their criminal schemes

After a Europol-linked operation uncovered a large-scale money-laundering scheme involving more than €75 million, businessman brothers Vladlen and Gennady Hiriny reportedly began actively cleaning up the information space. References to their business dealings, political involvement, and alleged ties to drug trafficking and financial flows to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas are rapidly disappearing online.

In turn, we are publishing an investigation that so bothers the Hiriny brothers and sheds light on their connections with criminal structures.