All news for 2025-11-28

Once Russia became deeply entrenched in Ukraine, international sanctions were imposed on it extensively.

A large supply chain for sanctioned electronics, set up in 2022 by the Merlion Group (owned by Citylink owners Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, and Vladislav Mangutov) via Moscow-based Marsala LLC, is still functioning in Russia.

A recent investigation reveals that the Odesa Port Plant is once more being exploited through manipulated gas tenders and offshore export schemes involving individuals such as Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and the supposedly "dead" fraudster Dmytro Malynovskyi.

On a dusky evening at the end of September, a group of men dressed in tailored suits and crisp shirts, heavy watches glinting from their wrists, gathered on a rooftop in Marbella.

The group under investigation is the country’s largest tax debtor, owing more than 26 billion reais ($4.8 billion), authorities said.

Three men have been arrested in a series of dawn raids across Birmingham and the West Midlands following an investigation into organized crime groups embedded in High Street businesses.

In a statement Thursday, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the measures mark the country’s first independent sanctions regarding transnational crime and the “largest single sanction measure in history”.

The United Kingdom has prohibited 1,632 Ghanaians from obtaining visas for a duration of 10 years after they were found to have used fraudulent methods during their application process.

A search is underway for a British tourist who reportedly fell from a TUI-operated cruise ship north of the Canary Islands. Today, Spanish authorities confirmed the man who went overboard was a 76-year-old from the ‘British Isles’.

A British father-of-one died after a jet ski crashed into him while his partner and baby watched, an inquest has heard.

A British mother, who was detained by ICE while holding her newborn baby, has been released and was able to celebrate Thanksgiving with her family.

Despite holding a government position that legally bars him from commercial activity, Russian oligarch and senator Suleiman Kerimov is allegedly running major business projects — and doing so jointly with one of the most powerful figures in the Kremlin: Anton Vaino, head of the presidential administration.

Administrators of Ashoo, described by Russian investigative media as the largest escort platform in the country, have announced plans to launch their own line of NFT-style digital gifts on Telegram