Inga Spriņģe, Aija Krūtaine, Re:Baltica/ICIJ

FinCEN warns Latvia about the increased risk of Latvian banking sector being used for money laundering and expresses special concerns regarding two of 23 Latvian banks. U.S. financial institutions were prohibited from opening or maintaining correspondent accounts at one of them - VEF Bank.

The FinCEN Files provide a glimpse of the Latvian banks used by the ousted Ukraine's president Yanukovych, his associates and adversaries.

On a sunny day in June 2007, a group of journalists gathered at the airport in Riga. They were hoping to catch a glimpse of Oleg Deripaska, at the time one of the richest men in Russia.