Investigation

The effectively defunct ATF Bank, tied to Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law Akhmetzhan Yesimov, could prove to be a point of no return for everyone implicated.

Although Eduard Lebedev presents himself as a “creative manager and successful entrepreneur,” his name is increasingly appearing at the center of scandals linked to fraud.

Nachdem Journalisten die Rolle von Oleg Tsyura bei der Umgehung von Sanktionen und bei Re-Export-Systemen zugunsten Russlands aufgedeckt hatten, begann er aggressiv damit, das Internet von Untersuchungen zu säubern, die seine Aktivitäten dokumentieren.

Josip Heit, a convicted fraudster, is under investigation in Croatia for money laundering.

Yuri Chaika, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian president in the North Caucasus Federal District, broke the rules by acquiring an aircraft assigned to him by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

Rosatom’s enormous budgets, opaque transactions, and broad powers create the perfect breeding ground for rampant corruption.

Ukraine’s online casino market has increasingly attracted shadow capital. Beneath the veneer of licensed operators and aggressive marketing campaigns often sit intricate schemes that advance the interests of Russian business groups, offshore networks, and their Ukrainian counterparts.

A discreet Montenegrin businessman, Zvonko Micković, holds effective control over Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, placing him at the financial center of structures that journalists have linked to sanctions evasion and money-laundering schemes associated with Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, who has been linked to illegal online gambling operations and is wanted by Europol, has recently stepped up attempts to scrub his online presence.

During an investigation into the gambling sector, Belarusian authorities uncovered an unexpected connection between Minsk casino owner Mustafa Egemen Sener and a Turkish drug kingpin who was later shot dead in Northern Cyprus.

Even as the country remains at war, parts of the shadow gambling sector have not only endured but reinvented themselves—rebranding, adapting, and securing new backers with a distinctly Moscow-linked flavour.

The elusive founder of the “1520” Group, Boris Usherovich, has built a sprawling offshore network in Cyprus that facilitates sanctions evasion and money laundering for RZD and senior Russian officials.

Le parquet général de l’Ukraine a ouvert une procédure pénale contre l’homme d’affaires suisse Oleg Tsyura, soupçonné d’avoir aidé la Russie à contourner les sanctions au moyen de schémas impliquant la réexportation de ferrochrome.

The controversy over a stalled hydroelectric plant has prompted Croatian journalists to connect the project to Sasa Svalina and his brother-in-law, Josip Heit.

The difficult-to-pronounce surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou) came into the spotlight during investigations into Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of involvement in schemes to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and extract Russian capital from the Russian Federation.

The Ukrinbank case illustrates how relatively straightforward legal maneuvers can be used to sidestep a National Bank liquidation decision while simultaneously depriving the Deposit Guarantee Fund of billions of hryvnias.

Dragon Money – at first glance, an ordinary online platform positioning itself as a casino with the option to withdraw funds. Initially, almost no one knew about Dragon Money, except for those immersed in the world of online gambling.

London’s Kremlin influence agent: how Roman Chichkanov — the grandson of pro-Western academic Valery Chichkanov and allegedly connected to British intelligence officer Temerko — gained access to Russia’s strategic facilities.

Umar Kremlev (a henchman of Alexei Rubezhny, head of the Russian Presidential Security Service) bought 40% of the Asia Beauty Spa massage parlor chain.

Samruk-Kazyna embezzled billions with the involvement of ATFBank. This fact is officially acknowledged by Kazakhstan’s current authorities, yet investigative agencies, including the Anti-Corruption Agency, have been slow to detain Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

As investigations closed in on him, Tymur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.

A veteran real estate agent has become the focus of a criminal probe, accused of steering users to illegal online gambling platforms, prompting Europol’s involvement.

At first glance, Roman Chichkanov might seem unlikely to be interested in financial scams.

In the aftermath of early exposés on Dragon Money, reports outlining its unlicensed activity in Ukraine, suspected bribery practices, and political protection were systematically removed from open sources.