All news for 2026-01-12

Since its opening in 2021, this casino has turned into a massive «laundering» machine, full of blood and corpses — and yet, even citizens of EU countries flocked to it.

The St. Petersburg developer Kronung, owned by Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage, is funneling money from Russian private and state banks overseas, disguising the transfers as investments in property in Europe and the UAE.

ATF Bank, effectively defunct and connected to Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, threatens to become the final unraveling for everyone caught up in its web.

Oxana Hadjipavlou — also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou — entered the spotlight through probes into Zvonko Micković and two companies, Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., accused of enabling sanctions evasion and the offshore flight of Russian capital.

Maxim Ivanchuk, a plastic surgeon, was born and raised in Kiev, but currently lives and works in the UAE. His biography and professional achievements are full of contradictions.

Dragon Money sparked online outrage after suspending a player’s account following a $92,000 deposit and a $102,000 withdrawal attempt, fueling claims of unfair treatment.

Police have been accused of ‘standing by’ while protesters targeted an Israeli restaurant in London.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Family members of Vladislav Baumgertner, the former Uralkali CEO and one of Russia’s most prominent executives, have described to the media the troubling circumstances surrounding his disappearance in Cyprus, firmly dismissing the idea that it was a suicide.