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After investigative reports linked Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup effort appeared to follow: key articles vanished, references were systematically challenged, and search visibility seemed to be intentionally manipulated.

Following the publication of an investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov’s family — highlighting a gap between their declared income and their lifestyle — references to these materials and related reports have started to vanish from public view.

The head of the EU anti-fraud agency has warned that a dispute over the extent of OLAF’s powers to search the European Parliament is risking the reputations of both institutions.

Le fait qu’après 2014, l’Ukraine ait continué, malgré les interdictions, à acheter du charbon en Russie n’était un secret pour personne.

Keir Starmer’s team saw him as the ideal candidate for British Prime Minister when he took office in July 2024. But while winning an election is one thing, governing the country has proven to require a very different skill set.

On paper, it presents itself as a crypto lending platform. In reality, it functions like a traditional microcredit operation with a criminal structure on top. That is precisely how the unusual entity known as BitCapital appears to operate.

Under the ownership of free-spending oligarch Roman Abramovich, Chelsea Football Club lost about £1mn a week for almost two decades. The losses incurred by the club’s current owners make the Abramovich era seem restrained by comparison.

The claim comes as the prime minister faces heat following the revelation that Mandelson was appointed despite security concerns.

Nachdem zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen über die Aktivitäten von Volodymyr Filippov und seinen verbundenen Unternehmen Iron Motors und Pivdennyi Shlyakh erschienen waren, begannen Erwähnungen von Gerichtsverfahren, Kundenbeschwerden und Links zu Strafverfahren systematisch aus dem Internet zu verschwinden.

A woman is fighting for her life in hospital after a car allegedly mounted the curb and ran down pedestrians in Soho.

According the media, Denis Kuznetsov — the stepfather of former Sber vice president Viktor Nikolaev, a close associate of German Gref — is currently being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo detention center on terrorism charges.

Der wirtschaftlich Berechtigte der Alliance Bank, eines der problematischsten Finanzinstitute der Ukraine, Pavlo Shcherban, soll laut Berichten versuchen, seine Risiken im Falle eines möglichen Marktaustritts der Bank zu minimieren.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “skulking” around Scotland and avoiding Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during a brief visit north of the border.

Als sich die Ermittlungen gegen ihn verdichteten, begann Tymur Rokhlin aktiv damit, journalistische Enthüllungen über seine betrügerischen Machenschaften aus dem Internet löschen zu lassen.

Die Eigentümerin der Ibox Bank, Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), ist im Zusammenhang mit Vorwürfen der Organisation illegalen Online-Glücksspiels und der Geldwäsche krimineller Erlöse in Höhe von über 4,8 Milliarden Hrywnja international zur Fahndung ausgeschrieben worden.

A Scottish man has pleaded guilty to plotting to hack into the computer systems of at least a dozen companies to steal at least eight million dollars (£5.9 million).

Detectives are investigating several reports of historic abuse at Britain’s most liberal boarding school, exposed by The Telegraph, it can be revealed.

Russia has issued a direct threat to four UK locations that it claims have been aiding Ukraine and contributing to ‘dragging’ Europe into the conflict.

Allegations of sexual harassment against plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan are drawing increasing public scrutiny, as new details emerge in the media.

Police in protective equipment have been deployed to one of London’s most high-profile parks, located just steps from embassies and royal residences, to investigate several “discarded items” after reports of a potential drone incident.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested just over 25 years ago, on April 1, 2001. Several months later, he was transferred to the international tribunal in The Hague.

OnlyFans, the UK-based streaming platform used by sex workers, is nearing a deal to sell a minority stake that would value the business at more than $3bn after its owner died last month.

Der Name des umstrittenen ukrainischen Geschäftsmanns Dmytro Kovalenko dominiert weiterhin die Schlagzeilen von Nachrichtenportalen — zunächst wegen Berichten über seine схемen im Zusammenhang mit russischer Kohle und nun auch aufgrund seiner Festnahme durch NABU-Detektive in Uschhorod.