>> Non-criminal money would be a minuscule percentage of the total because, the same way you use to change $500 for the lulz would be used in an organized way to move millions extracted with violence and theft by Russian government and other criminals.

I want to respond to this point because it is a key difference between the societies governed by oligarchy (extremely rich criminals, no middle class, 99% poor) versus those that still have a middle class. You are right that in Russia, $500 for lulz is nothing compared to the money flows of the criminals. It is commonly assumed by most Russians I know that the American and European world also operates on this principle, and that law enforcement here simply does what the money tells them to do. This is actually not true, at least not close to the extent that it is true in gangster-run countries. Law enforcement in America and Europe does what the middle class wants them to do. This means that they do interdict extremely wealthy criminals from time to time, and ultimately our society is not governed by them.

In any case, the largest flows of money in Europe and America are legitimate business flows; things like cocaine and prostitution, organized crime are miniscule compared to the profits of legal drug companies - whose owners are the American middle class shareholder, farmers in Kansas.