{
  "id": 9113447,
  "title": "Russian fintech A7 exploited Swift controls to funnel billion of dollars in sanctioned payments",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/russian-fintech-a7-exploited-swift-controls-to-funnel-billion-of",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-22T09:08:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Finextra",
    "slug": "finextra",
    "url": "https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48446/russian-fintech-a7-exploited-swift-controls-to-funnel-billion-of-dollars-in-sanctioned-payments"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An FT investigation has uncoverd a massive money laundering scam conducted by Kremlin-controlled fintech A7 that tricked international banks into handling billions of dollars in sanction-busting payments to Russian state companies.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}