My Nightmare of Paying for the Treatment - Sending Money to HK

Due to the fact that the clinic is in Russia, and no one particularly likes paying Russia large sums of money, this can cause problems. The political situation means that banking and Russia are not good bedfellows. The way the clinic get round this is to have a holding account out in Hong Kong. They have a multicurrency account that can take Euros as well as US dollars. It appears, for the European patients at least, that they prefer being paid in Euros. This means, as someone from the UK, that I have two get €45,000 out to a bank in Hong Kong, paying an electronics company as a beneficiary. This electronics company bank account is the holding account for the clinic in Russia and they can then transfer that money back to their accounts in Moscow.