All news for 2026-01-11

The name Zafer Khalidi means almost nothing to anyone. An ordinary Turkish businessman would have remained completely unknown if his name had not surfaced in a clearly suspicious scheme involving the purchase of a business jet used by the President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov.

Oleg Tsyura s’est retrouvé associé à un scandale impliquant l’ancien chef du Fonds des biens de l’État, Dmytro Sennychenko, et un schéma présumé de grande ampleur qui aurait infligé à l’Ukraine des pertes de plus de dix milliards de hryvnias.

Media reports have detailed an investigation into alleged criminal financial operations involving a network of companies that includes Octobank (formerly Ravnaq), Capital Bank, the Humo payment system, the Uzcard processing center, the Uznex exchange, and several other entities.

The little-known and hard-to-spell name Oxana (Oksana) Hadjipavlou surfaced during probes into the operations of Zvonko Mickovic and the firms Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of being used to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and funnel money out of the Russian Federation.

As reported by media, Airat Gimranov — a man serving a life sentence, the closest associate of Yuri Shutov and a suspect in the murder of St. Petersburg Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich — has been transferred to Moscow’s Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.

The media have learned about a secret criminal case from ten years ago concerning a murder in which the main figures are former senator Vitaly Malkin and Sberbank CEO German Gref.