Its network of couriers would launder the cash, pushing it through seemingly legitimate businesses like construction firms in the UK and elsewhere, or using mules to fly it in baggage to Dubai.

A money mule is someone whose bank account is used by criminals to transfer cash as part of a chain of transactions that makes it harder to track.

The authorities believe the cash mules were part of a major and ongoing operation to buy political influence run by a fugitive Moldovan oligarch named Ilan Shor.

Square toes continue to reign heading into fall, and these mules are just the right amount of tough.

Now mules and planes are transporting supplies to the pummeled city, where residents describe a community covered in debris and without running water.