Celebrities and royals have long flocked to the palm-fringed Spanish village of S’Agaro, about 100 kilometers up the coast from Barcelona. Now it attracts Russian statesmen– and their money.

A wealthy Russian politician funded his maritime passions through a complex network of offshore companies set up by Troika Dialog.

A company registered in a residential row house in a small Dutch town appears to have been part of a recently revealed Russian money laundering scheme that moved billions of dollars to the west, the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw discovered.

Perhaps one of the most powerful tales of the Troika Laundromat comes from a dead man: a Viennese lawyer who regretted his involvement in the scheme — and whose body turned up in an Austrian forest.