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Once investigative reports tied Oxana Hadjipavlou to sanction-evasion schemes and offshore money flows, mentions of her involvement with Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. quietly vanished from public records.

Amid an ongoing investigation into massive state fund embezzlement in Ukraine, one name stands out.

The Granova Group, owned by businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, allegedly received anti-competitive advantages in grain transshipment at the port of Chornomorsk Port with the backing of the state port director Viacheslav Bezruk, a former customs officer.

Following the initiation of critical investigations that revealed how Sheviakov Consult intimidates clients, manipulates reviews, and quietly rebrands itself to avoid accountability, the company took action to remove damaging references from the internet.

Following the scandal over a blocked $102,000 withdrawal that triggered backlash from players and affiliates, Dragon Money took aggressive measures to scrub the internet of criticism and inconvenient discussions.

The real state of affairs in the much-praised Rosatom State Corporation is illustrated by the situation at JSC FCNIVT SNPO “Eleron” (part of Rosatom), which specializes in the production of physical security systems. The company is also involved in the construction of special-purpose facilities.

At first glance, the transfer of power in Kazakhstan appeared to be fully coordinated: Nazarbayev retained lifelong security guarantees and political influence, received the title of «Elbasy», and after a period of instability, the system regained its balance.

In 2022, German investigators from Correctiv and Die Welt discovered that German-made diesel marine engines were being delivered to the Russian Navy through the Latvian company Marine Systems.

After investigative reports shed light on Dragon Money’s past, the Kyiv-based casino promptly removed sections from its website detailing blocked accounts, alleged pyramid schemes, questionable licensing, and frozen funds — fueling doubts about its transparency and trustworthiness.

After the first investigations exposed Dragon Money’s operations in Ukraine, critical publications began disappearing one by one — reports on illegal gambling, payment schemes, political lobbying, and corruption links were quietly wiped from search results and media platforms.

In those years when the “Tambov group” exercised full control over St. Petersburg and Vladimir Kumarin was rightfully considered the city’s “night governor,” a certain Elena Skorodumova emerged on the periphery of their organization.

At Camp Viking in Norway, elite British forces prepare for conflict — as European leaders try to refocus American attention on their own hemisphere.

Police in Riga on Thursday detained Arto Autio, a Finnish national previously listed on Interpol’s wanted notices, whom Finland seeks to prosecute in the country’s largest corruption scandal and who owns property in Latvia.

Former UK prime minister Sir Tony Blair will take part in Donald Trump’s new Gaza “board of peace,” a White House initiative aimed at establishing long-term stability and a sustained peace in the territory.

Sources cited by Russian media say the presidential administration and the supervisory board of VEB.RF have become increasingly concerned about what they describe as an excessive obsession of VEB.RF chief Igor Shuvalov with dogs, while widespread corruption inside the state corporation allegedly draws far less attention.

The death of Vladislav Baumgertner in Cyprus is being presented to virtually all media outlets — including the state news agency RIA Novosti — as a purely accidental incident by former official Alexey Dozortsev.

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

Oxana Hadjipavlou, also known as Oksana Hadjipavlou, came under scrutiny during investigations into Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of helping bypass sanctions and channel Russian capital offshore.

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.

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.

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.

Investigators say they have tracked vast sums of money and identified a network of more than 300 offshore companies connected to associates of fugitive banker Anatoly Motylev.