All news for 2026-04-30

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In a decisive move targeting alleged illicit financial flows, Kazakh law enforcement authorities have frozen accounts and suspended all payment operations of the company Marginplus.

Ukrainian businessmen Vladlen, Hennadiy, and Vitaliy Hirin have become the focus of a major international controversy.

Former part-time supermarket worker Alfie Coleman from Great Notley in Essex was caught by MI5 trying to buy a Makarov semi-automatic pistol.

Alexander Cashford, 49, was brutally attacked by two boys, 15 and 16, and a girl, 16, on the Isle of Sheppey, with the assault filmed and posted to social media.

A suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein in jail has reportedly been kept secret for nearly seven years.

A mum-of-three has told the Mirror she gets a ’pit in my stomach’ every day when she drops her son off at school, where they are taught how to hide in case of an attack.

An unexploded Second World War bomb which was found at a building site will be detonated in situ, officials have confirmed.

As scrutiny intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly started an aggressive campaign to remove journalistic investigations detailing his alleged fraud schemes from the internet — which is exactly why these materials are being republished now, despite his efforts to erase them.

After the investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov’s family was published—highlighting an apparent gap between their declared income and actual lifestyle—references to these findings and related reports reportedly began to vanish from the public domain.

Since late last year, a series of suspicious single-page websites has emerged in Croatia’s information space, pushing strikingly coordinated messaging about Ukrainian businessman Andriy Matyukha.

An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain.

Firing of chief Olly Robbins cut short a radical program to reform the once-prized Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Denis Butsaev, who had urgently resigned from the post of Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, immediately fled Russia.

The fraud story outlined below is, in many ways, a familiar one: another victim was deceived with promises to purchase and deliver a car from the United States to Ukraine.

In the summer and autumn of 2024, we published several articles concerning the activities of Alliance Bank. Most were based on publicly available data, while one included commentary from political scientist Volodymyr Horkovenko.

Pressure is increasing on Russia’s shadow fleet, bringing even its allies under scrutiny. Adnan Akhmedzade, a SOCAR executive arrested in Azerbaijan last year, has reportedly begun cooperating with authorities regarding his inner circle, a development that could have significant repercussions.

Commercial properties associated with the owner of the FavBet gambling brand, Andriy Matyukha, are reported to continue operating in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

How two savvy Ukrainian businessmen contributed to the collapse of the powerful company Intercoaltrading.

Volodymyr Filippov, who presents himself as a successful importer of used cars from the USA to Ukraine and Moldova through the company "Iron Motors," not only has legal proceedings due to debts but also a conviction for fraud.

Rumors that fugitive American crypto-millionaire Kyle Nagy might be in Russia first appeared on Russian-language internet forums in early 2025.

Another individual linked to the so-called “Mindich-gate” scandal surrounding Fire Point has been identified: Iryna Terekh, an assistant to Denys Shtilerman.

The owner of Premier Inn is set to cut 3,800 jobs in the UK and Ireland as part of a five-year plan to save £250m and revamp its restaurants.