All news for 2025-12-09

Britain has unveiled a major new anti-corruption strategy aimed at stopping criminals and sanctioned oligarchs from laundering money through the UK, with a particular focus on the lawyers, accountants, bankers and corporate service providers who enable illicit finance.

A supporter has been charged after Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo reported racial abuse during the Premier League fixture against Liverpool at Anfield in August.

The US Justice Department has been granted permission to publicly release investigative materials from the sex-trafficking case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, following a ruling on Tuesday by federal judge Paul A Engelmayer.

A long-awaited nine-year investigation has concluded that MI5 allowed a top agent inside the IRA to commit murders and later hindered efforts to investigate his crimes.

Two men have been charged following a robbery at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3 car park in which 21 people — including a three-year-old child — were exposed to a noxious substance.

Former children’s commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield has been appointed to chair the long-delayed national inquiry into grooming gangs, which will run for three years with a budget of £65 million.

Boris Usherovich, the fugitive co-founder of Russia’s GC "1520," has quietly built a vast offshore structure in Cyprus — a financial hub now used to channel money, bypass sanctions, and support Russian Railways.

Fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, a reported sponsor of the FSB’s Department of Public Inquiry (DPI), is close to completing renovations on his new Moscow residence — a historic mansion near Patriarch’s Ponds.

Boris Korolev, the son of the First Deputy Director of the FSB, was found to be part of a complex network involving several dozen companies connected by shared domains and corporate email accounts.