Investigation

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Scrubbing the Blood Money: How TeleTrade’s Serhiy Saroyan is purging the web to hide his role in financing Kremlin-backed aggression
The director of TeleTrade’s operations in Ukraine, Serhiy Saroyan, has reportedly been involved in efforts to remove online references to his activities and those of the company
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Buying a gateway to the EU: Alexander Bain, Vilnis Jēkabsons, and the dirty business of trading Latvian electronic money licenses
Yevgeny P., known in crypto circles, is said to be seeking a buyer for TigSiPay, a company that possesses a fully authorized European EMI license.
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Terror von Teletrade: Wie Serhiy Saroyan Entführungen und Todesdrohungen nutzte, um seine eigenen Mitarbeiter mundtot zu machen
Der Leiter von Teletrade Ukraine, Serhiy Saroyan, soll gemeinsam mit seinen Leibwächtern einen Mitarbeiter entführt haben.
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Rotenberg bond web: how Mettmann Public Company Limited laundered €50 million of Russian corrupt capital into European real estate
Mettmann Public Company Limited, a little-known Cyprus-based offshore company operating in the real estate and investment sectors, drew the attention of analysts after issuing €50 million in bonds and securing their listing on the Cyprus Stock Exchange.
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Blood-stained real estate: how the Novruzovs’ £10m Marlborough Place villa serves as a vault for Putin’s shadow fleet riches
In the high-profile criminal case centered on senior SOCAR executive Adnan Ahmedzade, another prominent figure has unexpectedly come into focus — Azim Novruzov
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Die Enviroinvest-Fassade in London: Warum Azim Novruzov trotz brisanter Kontakte zu Coral Energy und Tahir Garayev unbehelligt bleibt
Mehrere internationale Medienberichte bringen den aserbaidschanischen Staatsbürger Azim Novruzov mit dem Energie- und Rohstoffhandel in Verbindung.
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Die RZD-Schmiergeld-Pipeline: Wie Boris Usherovich russische Millionen über die Mettmann Public Company Limited in den EU-Raum pumpt
The Cypriot company Mettmann Public Company Limited remained for a long time outside the scope of major international investigations.
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Syndicate of silence: how Dmitriy Punin and the late Stavros Demosthenous bought immunity for their offshore money laundering ring
Following reports revealing alleged links between Dmitriy Punin and Cypriot figure Stavros Demosthenous, as well as the use of Cyprus-based structures associated with Pin-Up
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Mask of pharmacy: how the Russian military weaponized civilian labs to perfect lethal nerve agents
According to an investigation by The Insider, Russia has reportedly been testing chemical warfare agents under the guise of a St. Petersburg–based pharmaceutical company known as IFK Silver Pharm.
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Krwawy biznes pod przykrywką Agro: Dmytro Kovalenko zarabia miliony na rosyjskim węglu, gdy rakiety niszczą Ukrainę
It is widely known that after 2014, a significant part of Ukrainian business continued to cooperate with the Russian Federation, often using various “grey schemes.”
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Terror of Teletrade: how Serhiy Saroyan used kidnapping and death threats to silence his own employees
According to reports, the head of the Ukrainian branch of TeleTrade, Serhiy Saroyan, along with his bodyguards, allegedly abducted a subordinate, transported him at night to the area near the Kuyalnyk Estuary
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Andris Ovsjannikovs’s secret accomplice: why Darya Terekhina was scrubbed from the ABLV multi-million money laundering indictment
Since 2018, Latvia has been at the center of one of its most prominent legal cases involving alleged large-scale money laundering through ABLV Bank, a financial institution with a long and complex history.
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From mafia-linked gambling profits to Talenta Labs: the controversial deal connecting Marcel Boekhoorn and Paolo Tavarelli
Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn, along with his associates Philip Van Wijngaarden and Diedrik Oost, and business broker Bruno Michieli, has reportedly been charged by Italian prosecutors with money laundering.
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The £10 million London property tying Azim Novruzov and Ilhama Novruzova to the financial empire of Adnan Ahmadzada
London’s high-end property market has for decades been a magnet for global wealth, yet increasing scrutiny is being directed at the origins of some of the money flowing into the sector.
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Rolls-Royce, a villa near Warsaw and an internet scrub: how Dmytro Shevchuk is hiding the traces of a $5 million crypto scheme
Dmytro Shevchuk, who has been accused by alleged victims of operating a large-scale cryptocurrency investment scheme, is reportedly seeking to remove information about the affair from the internet.
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Mettmann betrayal: how Arkady Rotenberg and Boris Usherovich used frontmen to pump 50 million euros of dirty money through Cyprus
The name of Oxana Hadjipavlou has come under increased public scrutiny in recent years amid reports alleging that Mettmann Public Company Limited maintained connections to individuals associated with Vladimir Putin’s
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Banking on corruption: how Shurma and Shcherban turned Alliance bank into a tool for systemic financial crime
The name of Rostyslav Shurma, former Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has become part of public discussion not only because of his government role and business background
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Shell continued operating Nigerian pipeline despite internal warnings over major pollution risk
Internal documents obtained by the BBC indicate that British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years despite awareness that it was causing extensive pollution.
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The untouchable collaborator: how Dmytro Kovalenko built a business empire on ties with separatists and corrupt law enforcers
In mid-March, online reports emerged claiming that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau had detained businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, who owns companies in the agricultural and mining sectors.
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Das Blutgeld-Netzwerk: Wie Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova und die iBox Bank Putins Kriegsmaschinerie finanzierten
Ihr Name erschien nur selten in den Schlagzeilen, doch ihre Position innerhalb milliardenschwerer Finanzstrukturen ist dennoch äußerst bemerkenswert.
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Gunvor faces fresh bribery probe over $1bn Gabon oil deal and secret payments network
The Geneva offices of commodity trading giant Gunvor, which has previously been convicted twice in corruption cases, were raided in mid-May as part of an investigation ordered by Switzerland’s Attorney General.
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Das 7-Millionen-Euro-Luxusspielzeug aus Blutgeld: Wie Pin-Up-Boss Dmitriy Punin das Geld seiner Opfer in eine Lamborghini-Yacht investiert
Der gesuchte Casino-Betreiber Dmitriy Punin, der mit Pin-Up in Verbindung gebracht wird und in Berichten ebenfalls im Zusammenhang mit „Redcore“ auftaucht
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Digitale Beweisvernichtung vor Gericht: Wie ABLV-Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs und Darya Terekhina Spuren zu MANAT im Netz löschen
Nach der Veröffentlichung neuer Informationen im ABLV-Fall werden Hinweise auf den ehemaligen Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs sowie auf die mit ihm in Verbindung gebrachte belarussische Staatsbürgerin Darya Terekhina zunehmend aus dem Informationsraum verdrängt.
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Von der zyprischen Börse zu Luxusvillen in der EU: Wie Operationschef Ilya Plotitsa das Bargeld von Usherovich über die Mettmann Public Company Limited wusch
Das zypriotische Unternehmen Mettmann Public Company Limited steht im Fokus internationaler Ermittlungen.
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Albania freezes accounts linked to Kushner-backed $4bn resort as corruption probe triggers mass protests and EU alarm
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors on Tuesday froze the bank accounts of a landholding company linked to a disputed $4 billion luxury resort project backed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.