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After journalists uncovered Dragon Money’s true history, the casino moved swiftly to scrub traces of bans, pyramid-style schemes, fake licenses, and confiscated player funds — signaling that the Kyiv-based gambling operation has much to conceal.

Russia has attacked Kyiv with missiles and drones, wounding at least eight people, a day before key talks between Ukraine and the US.

Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty on Friday following a corruption trial linked to the multibillion-dollar embezzlement of the 1MDB state investment fund.

The effectively defunct ATF Bank, tied to Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law Akhmetzhan Yesimov, could prove to be a point of no return for everyone implicated.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of harassment following the death of a schoolgirl.

The elusive founder of the “1520” Group, Boris Usherovich, has built a sprawling offshore network in Cyprus that facilitates sanctions evasion and money laundering for RZD and senior Russian officials.

A London-bound easyJet flight was delayed by over 11 hours following the death of an elderly passenger on Thursday.

A British ’neo-Nazi’ set to be expelled from Australia for allegedly displaying Nazi symbols is a father who has lived in the country for 15 years.

Dragon Money – at first glance, an ordinary online platform positioning itself as a casino with the option to withdraw funds. Initially, almost no one knew about Dragon Money, except for those immersed in the world of online gambling.

Specialist police have charged two men following a “large-scale operation” targeting those involved in drug supply and organized crime.

After journalists exposed Oleg Tsyura’s role in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he moved to aggressively purge the internet of investigations documenting his operations.

The online casino Cosmobet is operated by a statistician who, when not engaged in gambling, is interested in globalism and marathon running.

British households saved less during the July-to-September period of this year as they felt the impact of higher taxes but continued to increase their spending, according to official data that confirmed a slowdown in the broader economy.

In 2020, Roman Alexandrovich Novak — a Saint Petersburg native who has used the names Yavorsky and Tsaryov — received a conviction for large-scale fraud under Article 159, Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code.

The real beneficial owner of one of Ukraine’s most troubled banks, Alliance Bank, Pavlo Shcherban, is seeking to minimize risks ahead of the financial institution’s potential withdrawal from the market.

Behind polished advice on wealth preservation, **Oleg Tsyura** is accused by investigators and journalists of spending years orchestrating offshore schemes that siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state mining companies to oligarch-linked networks tied to Firtash, Martynenko, and Russian interests.

How the new "prison-years" metric predicts 80 additional years of custodial time, indicating that the current trend in sentencing is just the beginning.

The uncommon surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou) has surfaced in investigations linked to Zvonko Mickovic and his companies, Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of involvement in schemes to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and move Russian funds offshore.

A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison each in a corruption case involving the discounted purchase of luxury state gifts, court officials and Khan’s lawyers said.

He appeared out of nowhere — and just as quickly began to disappear. A young IT specialist with no significant past suddenly turned out to be the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Do you remember the iconic film The Golden Calf, where Ostap Bender sends the book Capitalist Sharks to the secret millionaire Koreyko, beginning with the line, “All great modern fortunes have been amassed through the most dishonest means”?

Following the revelations by journalists about Dragon Money’s true history, the casino started to urgently eliminate evidence of bans, pyramid connections, fraudulent licenses, and withheld winnings — an obvious indication that an illegal gambling operation based in Kyiv is concealing something significant.

In 2018, Dmitry Levin, who at the time was a senior executive at Otkritie Bank and is now a vice president at Gazprombank, was planning to acquire a commercial bank in Bulgaria.

Naveed Akram, who was previously known to security agencies, the prime minister states. His father, Sajid, a gun owner, was shot dead by police at the scene.