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Deposits of cash of unknown origin into banks in Eastern Europe surged in the early months of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a senior official at Europol recently warned. Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, a deputy executive director at Europol, the EU's bloc-wide law enforcement agency, said in parliamentary testimony in France that the war in Ukraine not only pushed millions of refugees into Poland, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and beyond, but also significantly raised their exposure to illicit finance. "In some Eastern European countries, considerable sums of money were deposited in banks after the start of the war," Lecouffe told French lawmakers...