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Mr. Tarwire quickly realized that he’d made an irreversible mistake when he arrived at a training facility outside Moscow and met other Africans—mostly from Cameroon, South Africa, Burundi, Rwanda, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe as well—who had fallen into a similarly perilous situation. Desperately seeking comfort and reassurance, he asked them: “Did you get your bonus? Have you sent money home to your families?”

Most answered in the negative, telling him that they’d either never seen the money that had been promised to them, or that they’d received it, but had no way of sending it outside of Russia, owing to the strict international sanctions regime imposed upon the Russian financial system.