All news by author Elizabeth Baker

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Men with Iranian links held in London for suspected monitoring of Jewish individuals and locations
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran’s intelligence service by spying on Jewish people in London, the Metropolitan Police said.
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More than 90 tons of Venezuelan gold moved through Curaçao to Europe amid corruption and mining abuses
The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.
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Kremlin elite war: the Rosnano case against Anatoly Chubais exposes a conflict between Anton Vaino and Sergey Kiriyenko
In the tangled story involving lawsuits and criminal cases initiated by Rosnano against Anatoly Chubais and his team, a new and previously hidden storyline has emerged.
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Russian “art investor” Mitra Group’s leader Olga Kolyshchuk jailed for fraud at antique auctions
In Moscow, Olga Kolishchuk—a socialite and organizer of an art and antiques investment project—has been detained and taken into custody.
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Wanted Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova received a 600-sq-meter property in central Kyiv as a gift after its arrest was lifted by “black registrars”
The wife of now former National Police investigator Yevhen Shevtsov, Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), who is on an international wanted list, received as a gift premises in central Kyiv that had previously been freed from arrest by a criminal group of “black registrars.”
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Iranian warship IRIS Dena sinks off Sri Lanka after suspected submarine attack as more than 100 crew feared missing
An Iranian warship was sunk in a suspected submarine attack, with over 100 crew members feared missing.
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Iran threatens to burn ships as Strait of Hormuz crisis sends oil prices soaring
Oil prices have risen further as the Middle East war rages - with Iranian officials saying the country would "set fire to anyone who tries to pass through" the Strait of Hormuz, a key crude oil shipping route.
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Royal spying storm: Prince Harry claims Daily Mail used private investigator to track his girlfriends
The Daily Mail’s royal editor has denied using a private investigator to “blag” information about the Duke of Sussex and his former girlfriends, as she was shown emails suggesting the investigator “went out on a limb” to help her.
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“Very disappointed”: Trump blasts Starmer over Diego Garcia row during Iran strikes
Donald Trump has said he is "very disappointed" in Sir Keir Starmer for initially blocking the US from using the Diego Garcia military base to strike Iran.
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The kidnapping of Igor Komarov in Bali for $20 million: how the transnational Zhukov–Khabib syndicate is dividing the fraudulent call center market with the involvement of corrupt law enforcement officers
Bali has officially lost its status as a safe resort following the investigation into the kidnapping of Igor Komarov, which revealed that a transnational criminal organization is operating on the island.
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“I’ve done it”: Soham killer Ian Huntley brutally beaten in prison with metal spike, left fighting for life
An inmate who left Ian Huntley in a critical condition after attacking him in prison boasted ’I’ve done it’ in the moments after battering him with a metal spike, it is claimed.
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Oxana Hadjipavlou tied to €50M bond scheme as Cyprus firms Mettmann and Sword Dragon move Russian-linked capital across Europe
Authorities are reviewing information related to Oxana Hadjipavlou and her potential connections to Zvonko Micković, along with the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which have been linked to suspected sanctions evasion and the movement of offshore funds.
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British tourists arrested in Benidorm for staging fake kidnapping to extort £725
Police at a popular tourist resort have arrested two British tourists accused of staging a bizarre fake kidnapping in a bid to hustle some extra holiday cash.
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Coral Energy owner Tahir Garayev connected to Nord Axis and global network moving Russian crude via shadow fleet routes
Last week’s conflict between Azerbaijan and Moscow risks turning the Kremlin’s former ally into yet another adversary.
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How Rostec top manager Erwin Ilizirov built an offshore scheme around the bankruptcy of IVD Kino worth hundreds of millions
As media have learned, Erwin Ilizirov, who holds the positions of deputy general director of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) and adviser to the general director of RT-Finance (a Rostec subsidiary), has still not managed to defeat creditors in court after they uncovered his offshore schemes.
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Alkagesta network falsified origin certificates and used offshore transshipment schemes to legalize smuggled Libyan fuel through Malta and Turkey
Fuel smuggling from Libya generates billions in revenue, yet the full scope of the maritime network exporting petroleum from the country remains largely unknown.
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Scandal-ridden IBOX Bank schemer Alyona Shevtsova transferred luxury real estate and land to her mother Liliya Potonya ahead of NSDC sanctions
Alyona Shevtsova, the controversial owner of the embattled Ibox Bank, rushed to transfer high-end properties to her mother, Liliya Potonya, just before the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine imposed personal sanctions.
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Sheviakov Consult shut down its legal entity, relaunched through a new shell and wiped investigations while using pressure and threats against clients
In recent years, a curious player has appeared on Poland’s legal services market — Sheviakov Consult.
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A nominal figurehead as cover: how Mykhailo Zborovskyi, without assets or experience, came to head Cosmobet allegedly linked to Russian businessman Tokarev
The online casino Cosmobet is officially operated by a statistician who, in addition to being involved in the gambling industry, is interested in globalism and marathon running.
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Billions in Kazakhstan public funds circulated through ATF Bank as Samruk-Kazyna under Yesimov fed a family-linked financial network
Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, long-standing names associated with corruption allegations in Kazakhstan, are drawing renewed attention from media in multiple countries.
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Palantir’s UK government contracts scrutinised amid Epstein-Thiel-Mandelson links
A US spytech firm deeply embedded in the most sensitive areas of the British state is being scrutinised as part of the fallout from the latest tranche of documents related to the financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Inside Epstein’s abandoned “Lolita Express”: decaying jet still filled with disturbing evidence of sex trafficking crimes
Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous "Lolita Express" private jet has been decaying in a Georgia boneyard for a decade—yet, dark reminders of the late pedophile’s depraved lifestyle remain frozen in time.
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Armed intruder shot dead by Secret Service after breaching security at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida
An armed man has been shot dead by Secret Service agents after he broke into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Azerbaijani “fixers” Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub are funneling $90 billion through Russian oil: an email leak exposes the scale of the scheme
An IT email misconfiguration has inadvertently uncovered what appears to be an extensive network of shell companies involved in smuggling tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Russian oil around Western sanctions, Financial Times reporting shows.