A Spanish probe into Russian mafia 'could change the narrative of Putin in the West'

One of Russia's largest organized-crime syndicates allegedly operated out of Spain for more than a decade with the help of close allies of Vladimir Putin, then the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Bloomberg reports. Prosecutors in Madrid filed a 488-page petition to charge 27 people with money laundering and fraud in connection to the St. Petersburg's Tambov crime syndicate setting up shop in Spain in 1996.  Vladislav Reznik, currently the deputy head of the finance committee in Russia's lower...