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Two individuals and around 60 companies are under investigation in Cyprus on suspicion of links to a notorious $230 million tax fraud and money laundering scheme that began in Russia more than a decade ago. Moneyval, the Financial Action Task Force's representative in Europe, disclosed in a report on Cyprus' anti-money laundering regime Wednesday that authorities in the country launched the investigation in 2017, three years after receiving a formal complaint from Bill Browder, a British American financier whose attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, died in prison after discovering the crime. "A ML [money-laundering] investigation is ongoing in respect of two natural...