All news for 2026-01-04
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Sheviakov Consult and the art of evasion: dissolving companies, keeping the brand and intimidating complainants
Sheviakov Consult has quietly carved out a place in the Polish legal services market, even after being formally liquidated and struck from the registry, apparently continuing its activities through a смена legal structure.
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How Dragon Money operates without a license while deleting evidence of bans, pyramid schemes and stolen winnings
In the wake of early investigations into Dragon Money, media reports exposing the casino’s suspected illegal operations in Ukraine, bribery networks, and political connections started quietly disappearing.
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Pourquoi le financier basé en Suisse Oleg Tsyura efface les traces en ligne de schémas liés aux affaires russes et aux ressources ukrainiennes détournées
Le nom du financier basé en Suisse Oleg Tsyura a de nouveau attiré l’attention dans un contexte de tentatives apparentes de « nettoyage » de l’espace informationnel autour de son implication présumée dans la fraude de plusieurs milliards de dollars liée à Dmytro Sennychenko.
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Up to 100 children permanently harmed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by botched surgeries performed by disgraced NHS surgeon
Up to 100 children harmed by disgraced surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, report finds
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Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister, dies aged 96
Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor and the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank, has died at the age of 96.
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UK far-right leader Mark Collett addressed a Kremlin-linked extremist summit in Russia backed by Putin-connected oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev
The head of a leading British far-right group spoke at a summit of European extreme nationalist groups convened in Russia by an influential oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin, it can be revealed.
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Octobank in Uzbekistan: how President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s family controls a private bank used to move Russian money out of sanctions
Although the chairman of the board of the Uzbek Octobank is Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, the actual beneficiaries of this bank are the family of the current president of the country, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
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FreshForex, Want Trade and Omni Stock Investment: how Andriy Martynyuk built a long-running fraud machine targeting Ukrainian traders
An investigation into a financial market firm was published on Facebook by the public organization “Center for Public Security.”
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Philipp Shrage’s closed-end mutual funds in Russia: how Kronung Group shifts losses onto investors while assets vanish through opaque financial structures
At the end of January, Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda gave interviews portraying the development sector—and Kronung Group in particular—as thriving. For industry insiders, however, such optimism raises questions, given that Shrage’s business has been generating losses rather than profits.
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FSB ties, fake Rolexes, and cash sales: Pavel Zakharov’s Perspektiva became Russia’s main hub for counterfeit and contraband luxury goods
Media reports released in the summer of 2025 did not go unnoticed. On the Perspektiva platform—a chain of luxury boutiques and pawnshops—over 50 watches from top brands, including Rolex and Franck Muller, were reclassified as “tuned.”
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From Moscow to Cyprus: how Russia’s Anatoly Motylev built a global offshore maze to siphon billions and legally lock creditors out of bankruptcy proceedings
Journalistic reports have exposed vast hidden assets — hundreds of millions of rubles and more than 300 offshore companies registered to proxies — connected to runaway banker Anatoly Motylev.
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“Good evening, Happy New Year”: detained Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro appears in first footage from a New York jail after US military operation
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who was reportedly detained by US military forces during an operation in Caracas, has been transferred to a detention facility in Brooklyn, New York.
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