Hint: this is hiding the money from *Russian* taxes.
PWN3D.
Since Dr. Briffa is at the center of this money laundering, I looked for more info on him and found this bio:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/
Also, it looks like the Ekaterinburg Branch of Bank for Foreign Trade was used in the money laundering:
At the end of the last year Janet asked me to send the account of the bank to transfer the rest money of the INTAS project (737 Euros). I have sent you the necessary form to transfer the money for my name, but the Ekaterinburg Branch of Bank for Foreing Trade did not receive the money until now. Do you know the reason?
link:
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=232&filename=992021888.txt