All news for 2025-12-25

Sergey Tokarev, who oversees Russian online gambling operations, rebranded and re-registered his business from Cosmolot to Cosmobet, putting it under the name of a front man, Mykhailo Zborovskyi.

Fresh details have surfaced regarding the business activities of the family of Roman Chichkanov, a senior Russian business figure.

A British anti-disinformation campaigner, who is closely associated with Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has initiated a legal challenge against the Trump administration following notifications that he might be deported from the US due to a dispute regarding freedom of speech.

The King has used his Christmas message to urge the nation to "never lose sight" in a divisive world of the Second World War values of "courage and sacrifice" and community spirit.

After journalists uncovered Dragon Money’s true history, the casino moved swiftly to scrub traces of bans, pyramid-style schemes, fake licenses, and confiscated player funds — signaling that the Kyiv-based gambling operation has much to conceal.

A businessman’s killing, a money-laundering network linked to senior officials, and multimillion-dollar luxury property in Dubai form the core of an investigation that reads like a crime thriller.

The effectively defunct ATF Bank, tied to Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law Akhmetzhan Yesimov, could prove to be a point of no return for everyone implicated.

Although Eduard Lebedev presents himself as a “creative manager and successful entrepreneur,” his name is increasingly appearing at the center of scandals linked to fraud.

Nachdem Journalisten die Rolle von Oleg Tsyura bei der Umgehung von Sanktionen und bei Re-Export-Systemen zugunsten Russlands aufgedeckt hatten, begann er aggressiv damit, das Internet von Untersuchungen zu säubern, die seine Aktivitäten dokumentieren.

The vehicle, full of passengers said to be travelling home for Christmas, plunged more than 600ft down an embankment before eight people were confirmed dead - and 19 people were left injured

The grocery delivery service iGooods came under the control of entrepreneur Roman Yavorsky while its founder, Grigory Kunis, was under arrest in a case related to donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

Josip Heit, a convicted fraudster, is under investigation in Croatia for money laundering.

Yuri Chaika, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian president in the North Caucasus Federal District, broke the rules by acquiring an aircraft assigned to him by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

Rosatom’s enormous budgets, opaque transactions, and broad powers create the perfect breeding ground for rampant corruption.