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Tu\u0161iranka comments on the story of Ostro.si about the Russian colonisation of Croatian island of Mali Lo\u0161inj<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Family members and close associates of Mihajlo Peren\u010devi\u0107, a wealthy Croatian businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, received millions of dollars from Russia under the guise of fictitious real estate purchases.<\/p>\n

The funds were deposited in the recipients\u2019 personal bank accounts in Austria, thereby possibly evading Croatian money laundering controls, taxes, and questions about their origins.<\/p>\n

The exact source of the money is unknown. But the offshore company that made the payments is connected to a network that was used to launder funds stolen from the Russian state budget in the so-called \u201cMagnitsky Case.\u201d The transfers to Peren\u010devi\u0107\u2019s family and associates took place just as that money was being funneled out of Russia. <\/p>\n

Reporters found the transactions \u2014 and some of the unfulfilled <\/strong>contracts that underpinned them \u2014 in a set of leaked records from Ukio Bankas. The now-defunct Lithuanian bank was central to the Troika Laundromat<\/a>, a vast money movement scheme that was revealed by OCCRP and its media partners last year. The dozens of offshore companies that formed the Laundromat also used fictitious deals to justify large transfers of money out of Russia \u2014 and they also used Ukio bank accounts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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What is Tu\u0161iranka? <\/h3>\n

Generally, we publish Tu\u0161iranka only in Slovenian language as a weekly visual commentary created by brilliant Slovenian illustrators. <\/p>\n

Given complete media censorship of our the story about Russian investments in Croatia<\/a> we decided to break our routine and translate it into English and Croatian.<\/p>\n

Tu\u0161iranka puts the illustration on the pedestal above the word. It upgrades the traditional press commentary by using principles of newspaper caricature in order for it to find new life in the digital world. <\/p>\n

A \u00bbtu\u0161iranka\u00ab is an ink drawing, but on O\u0161tro.si<\/a> it is a weekly visual commentary, which is holding a critical mirror up to current events. Sometimes it provokes laughter, even bitter, sometimes it acts like a cold shower. For me or you. For all of us. For society. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tu\u0161iranka: Russian Laundromat highlights an O\u0161tro investigation that uncovered millions of dollars transferred from Russia to family members and associates of Croatian businessman Mihajlo Peren\u010devi\u0107 through fictitious real estate transactions. 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