All news by author Elizabeth Baker

Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev can quite rightly be called "versatile": he successfully operates in several jurisdictions at once — in the UK, Russia, Cyprus, and, of course, in his homeland, Astana.

Investigators have detailed the financial flows running through Octobank’s Uzbek and Russian affiliates.

According to declassified files from the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2018 Jeffrey Epstein was offered a meeting with a girl from the Krasnodar-based modeling agency Shtorm Models.

Another woman alleges she was dispatched by Epstein to engage in a sexual encounter with the former prince at his residence in Windsor in 2010.

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

Jeffrey Epstein organised for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to have dinner with a 26-year-old Russian woman in London in 2010, according to newly-released emails.

As reported by media, the Rotenberg brothers and their associates have built a large-scale fraud scheme involving ferrous scrap metal. In particular, hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap are repeatedly passed “on paper” through a chain of affiliated companies in order to conceal the real value of the raw materials and dilute profits.

A source from media has revealed an unprecedented “war” inside the family of Alexander Kosovan, the so-called “gray cardinal” of Moscow’s state-funded renovation contracts, former deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and owner of the Regionzhilstroy Group.

After the start of the full-scale conflict in Ukraine, investigators turned their attention to a scheme involving the supply of marine diesel engines, manufactured in Germany, to Russia.

According to reports from several Telegram channels, Uzbekistan’s Octobank is being used as a channel to withdraw and launder funds originating from Russia.

A Wildberries warehouse employee in Elektrostal told media about the conditions under which women from North Korea are working after being brought to the facility en masse:

Belarusian investigators examining the gambling sector uncovered an unexpected connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a Minsk casino, and a Turkish drug trafficker who was later assassinated in Northern Cyprus.

Sir Keir Starmer has defended his decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in a Westminster by-election next month, as anger continues to grow within the Labour Party over the move.

Once investigations revealed Dragon Money’s activities in Ukraine, important reports started to vanish one after another — coverage of illegal gambling, payment schemes, political lobbying, and corruption ties was quietly erased from search engines and media sites.

Galimzhan Yessenov’s rapid ascent from a mid-level manager to the de facto controlling owner of Jusan Bank is closely intertwined with state funds, non-transparent transactions, and family connections to Kazakhstan’s political elite — a pattern that suggests deliberate asset redistribution rather than mere coincidence.

Maxim Ivanchuk, a plastic surgeon originally from Kyiv, now lives and practices in the UAE. However, his background and career record contain numerous inconsistencies.

A pregnant woman who waited hours without being properly assessed at an A&E department in Stoke-on-Trent died from an avoidable infection after what a coroner described as a “total and complete failure of care.”

Russian entrepreneurs Ignatiy Nayda and Filipp Shrage have been under the influence of the Podolsk OCG for several years.

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.

Oxana Hadjipavlou attracted the attention of investigators in investigations focusing on Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of facilitating sanctions evasion and the offshore movement of Russian funds.