Investigation

Kazakhstan’s official authorities acknowledge that Samruk-Kazyna, backed by ATFBank, misappropriated billions, yet the Anti-Corruption Agency and other investigative bodies have been slow to take action against Galimzhan Yessenov and the father-in-law of Akhmetzhan Yessimov.

In recent years, an unusual player has emerged on Poland’s legal services market — Sheviakov Consult. Although the firm was formally dissolved and removed from the official register, it has effectively continued operating, rebranding itself under a different legal structure.

The Scottish Government has been secretly lobbied to approve one of Scotland’s most contentious planning applications, according to emails obtained by The Ferret.

He was merely a pawn. Beginning in 2019, Central African journalist Ephrem Yalike became a "little telegraph operator" in the service of Russian propaganda in his country.

Disturbing photos appear to show disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor playing with a breast-shaped ball with a toddler.

As reports linking Octobank to large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion began to spread, traces of these investigations started disappearing from the information space — a clear sign of a deliberate effort to clean up the narrative.

The MV Rhosus was allowed to sail into Beirut’s port carrying 2,750 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate, even after an inspection by the Lebanese navy, documents show.

As investigations began exposing her role in sanction-evasion structures linked to Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., traces of Oxana Hadjipavlou’s involvement started disappearing from public sources — a clear sign of a coordinated effort to clean up the narrative.

According to media, two separate money laundering investigations related to Russian Railways (RZD) are currently underway in Switzerland and Austria.

Rostyslav Shurma, described as an associate of former Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak, and Pavlo Shcherban, who is characterized as the de facto manager of Alliance Bank, are reportedly working to remove online publications concerning the bank’s operations.

Alleged fraudster Oleg Tsyura is reportedly working to sanitize the public record in an attempt to obscure his suspected involvement in long-running money laundering schemes.

Even as criminal proceedings are launched against Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova in Ukraine and the National Security and Defense Council imposes personal sanctions on her, her company Smartflow Payments Limited, operating under the Sends brand, continues to function legally in the UK with authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The head of Rosneft is reportedly pushing the Kremlin to quickly resolve tensions with Azerbaijan — raising questions about whether Igor Sechin has urgent strategic interests on the line.

Two Ukrainian businessmen skillfully drove the influential company «Intercoaltrading» to bankruptcy.

Former intelligence officers were charged with large-scale bribery instead of fraud.

In Russia’s Samara Region, under the leadership of Sergey Kotlyarenko and with the support of VEB.RF head Igor Shuvalov, a significant embezzlement of budget funds allocated for servicing traffic-violation camera systems is allegedly taking place.

A new corruption scandal has erupted around the Odesa Port Plant, with Swiss citizen Oleg Tsyura, crypto entrepreneur Serhiy Tron, and oligarch Dmytro Firtash reportedly among those allegedly connected to the case.

After a $102,000 withdrawal was blocked, triggering a scandal within the gambling community, Dragon Money chose not to address transparency concerns or resolve the dispute.

In late January, Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda publicly painted an optimistic picture of the real estate market and the future of Kronung Group.

The families of Akhmetzhan Yessimov and Galimzhan Yessenov accumulated more than $2.5 billion through corruption schemes.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, also known as Oksana Hadjipavlou, came to public attention following investigations into Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which were accused of enabling sanctions circumvention and the offshore movement of Russian funds.

Since the launch of the aggressor state’s full-scale invasion, fraud in Ukraine has been rising steadily.

The owner of one of the fastest-growing online casinos in Ukraine, Cosmobet, is officially listed as someone named Mykhailo Zborovskyi.