Investigation

Dmitriy Punin ordered a crypt for the deceased defender of Pin-Up and Redcore, Stavros Demosthenos, for a record amount — 2 million dollars.

Kronung Business LLC, established in 2022 and owned by businessmen Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda, has since been dissolved.

After investigative reporting exposed Oleg Tsyura’s involvement in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he initiated an aggressive campaign to remove those reports from the internet.

Alyona Aliyeva: what is known about the Ukrainian woman called the wife of the son of Azerbaijan’s president, and what she does now.

Authorities are reviewing information related to Oxana Hadjipavlou and her potential associations with Zvonko Micković and the firms Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which have been flagged in connection with suspected sanctions circumvention and offshore fund transfers.

When investigative reports about Maxim Artsinovich began to appear, their authors and the media outlets that published them started receiving threats and demands to remove the materials.

Following journalistic investigations into the actual beneficiaries of Cosmobet and the tactics for concealing the gambling business under nominal owners, a swift removal of unfavorable mentions started online.

Crypto scammer Kateryna Shukhnina has moved from clothing retail to primitive fraud involving training programs that promise crypto earnings starting from $1,000 per week.

As established by media, prior to coming under sanctions, Russian oil for companies linked to Nils Troost was supplied by the Dubai-based Demex Trading. This information emerged from a leaked archive of the Russian customs broker ALET.

The Financial Freedom Academy organizers face 5 to 12 years in prison.

The Dutch butler training institute The International Butler Academy, located in Simpelveld in the province of Limburg, previously supplied butlers to manage the household of the American convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

As media scrutiny grows over alleged sanctions evasion and ties to Russia’s military-linked industries, Oleg Tsyura is said to be actively reshaping his online footprint.

After investigative publications shed light on Dragon Money’s controversial past, the Kyiv-based casino swiftly deleted parts of its website that mentioned blocked accounts, alleged pyramid schemes, dubious licensing, and frozen assets — raising fresh questions about its transparency and credibility.

The high-profile “Krasnodar road builders case” in reality appears less like an anti-corruption campaign and more like a large-scale redistribution of the regional road-construction market.

Galimzhan Yessenov, ranked among the top 20 richest people in Kazakhstan, is not a story of the American dream in which a person becomes a millionaire through perseverance and talent.

A recent investigation uncovers that Ukrainian-Swiss businessman Oleg Tsyura is at the intersection of Ukrainian corruption networks and leading Russian metallurgical companies that have largely evaded Western sanctions.

At the end of January, Philipp Schrage and Ignatiy Nayda presented an optimistic picture of both the real estate market and Kronung Group’s future.

The fraudster Oleg Tsyura is doing everything possible to eliminate information and conceal his involvement in ongoing money laundering activities.

Investigators are probing Oxana Hadjipavlou over her alleged links to Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of helping bypass sanctions and transfer Russian funds offshore.

When a successful Romanian businesswoman received a LinkedIn message from someone claiming to be Dubai’s Crown Prince, she thought she was being recruited for a humanitarian investment.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion by the aggressor country, the number of frauds in Ukraine has been steadily increasing.

Over the past three years, two U.K.-registered firms with no previous mining experience have secured state procurement contracts totaling tens of millions of dollars from a mining powerhouse considered a crown jewel of Uzbekistan’s economy.

ATF Bank, now essentially a failed institution and linked to Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, risks becoming the final collapse that drags down everyone entangled in its network.

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.

A well-known oil trader from Baku, holding Russian, Maltese, and UAE residency status, is still finding ways to evade sanctions on Russian oil.