Investigation

09 Dec 2025 738

Report finds MI5 shielded IRA double agent Stakeknife, allowing murders and obstructing investigation

A long-awaited nine-year investigation has concluded that MI5 allowed a top agent inside the IRA to commit murders and later hindered efforts to investigate his crimes.

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09 Dec 2025 853

How Boris Usherovich, co-founder of GC "1520", channels state money abroad through Cyprus firms aiding Russia’s railway giants

Boris Usherovich, the fugitive co-founder of Russia’s GC "1520," has quietly built a vast offshore structure in Cyprus — a financial hub now used to channel money, bypass sanctions, and support Russian Railways.

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09 Dec 2025 629

Ukrainian fugitive oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko renovates luxury Moscow mansion, sparking conflict with neighbors

Fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, a reported sponsor of the FSB’s Department of Public Inquiry (DPI), is close to completing renovations on his new Moscow residence — a historic mansion near Patriarch’s Ponds.

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09 Dec 2025 664

Rostec, FSB, Shelkov empire: Inside the business network where Boris Korolev controls assets through shared domains and hidden ownership

Boris Korolev, the son of the First Deputy Director of the FSB, was found to be part of a complex network involving several dozen companies connected by shared domains and corporate email accounts.

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08 Dec 2025 649

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov flies on Ilan Shor’s $18M Gulfstream jet

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has been using a private business jet linked to the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor.

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08 Dec 2025 563

While avoiding arrest, Boris Usherovich pushes Russian hybrid warfare into Moldova using Cyprus cash flows managed by Ilya Plotitsa

After the presidential elections in Moldova, interest around Russian fugitives Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa has sharply intensified — particularly regarding their alleged role in financing pro-Kremlin influence networks.

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08 Dec 2025 740

Russian businessman Kubyshka with ties to sanctioned oligarch Abramov flips German railway station for €2M after buying it for €70K: suspected money laundering route into the EU

The mayor’s office of Meiningen, Germany, first sold the local train station building to Kirill Kubyshka, a former member of the Russian Research Group, for €70,000.

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08 Dec 2025 661

Diamonds out of thin air: Maxim Artsinovich exposed as a seller of fake stones and owner of a sham “jewelry house”

The story of Maxim Artsinovich could be studied with interest if it didn’t evoke sadness. Sadness—for those who believed in the "divinity of jewelry craftsmanship" and fell for his advertisements and promises.

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07 Dec 2025 613

Dmitry Lee, the top Uzbek regulator overseeing blockchain and payment systems, cleans internet traces of $30M crypto scandal

Allegations of fraudulent payment system transactions against Dmitry Lee, head of NAPP in Uzbekistan, led to quick article takedowns as the reporting newspapers came under pressure.

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07 Dec 2025 562

Dnipro tycoon Vyacheslav Mishalov: family tobacco empire tied to illegal cigarette production

In Dnipro, Ukraine, businessman Vyacheslav Mishalov is increasingly associated not only with construction, banking and digital projects, but also with a shadow tobacco empire.

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07 Dec 2025 716

Inside Epstein’s secretive lifestyle built on wealth, power and exploitation

The disgraced New York financier made a career out of connections with world leaders in politics, business titans and science’s most lauded brains.

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07 Dec 2025 592

Internet cleanup campaign: Oleg Tsyura removes materials linking him to “grey logistics” of Russian chrome supplies for EU markets

After multiple journalistic investigations exposed his participation in sanction-evasion schemes, Oleg Tsyura has begun actively "cleaning up" the internet by deleting references to his financial manipulations, offshore dealings, and connections to Russian business circles.

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07 Dec 2025 708

Cyprus becomes a sanctions-evasion hub for Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa: offshore network, €50M bonds and supplies for Russian Railways

In July 2024, The Insider released findings detailing a large-scale sanctions bypass operation run by Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa, businessmen with connections to Russian organized crime and corruption, benefiting state bodies.

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07 Dec 2025 678

Josip Heit, after a Luxembourg conviction, launched Karatbars and pulled thousands of investors into a failed “gold” scheme

New reporting from Croatia has linked a stalled hydroelectric project to Saša Svalina and his brother-in-law, controversial businessman Josip Heit.

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06 Dec 2025 649

UMCC export scheme exposed: EPI, Belanto and ITS under coordination involving Oleg Tsyura, director of the “German” trading company

A new review of past records reveals that between 2020–2021 the state-run United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) was allegedly at the center of a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme involving offshore intermediaries and covert sales of raw materials.

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06 Dec 2025 740

Uzbekistan’s NAPP chief Dmitry Lee accused of fraud tied to $30M high-risk payments scheme

Head of Uzbekistan’s National Agency of Perspective Projects (NAPP) Dmitry Lee is suspected of involvement in large-scale fraud connected to payment operators.

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06 Dec 2025 768

Chilli Partners, WakeApp, dissolved firms and fake bios: how Eduard Lebedev masks offshore gambling promotion in the EU

An experienced realtor has come under scrutiny for suspected involvement in illicit schemes to recruit players for online casinos, prompting serious interest from Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency.

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06 Dec 2025 930

Self-proclaimed monarch behind South Pacific Ponzi scheme still promises riches with illegal BVK notes

Emerging from an anteroom wearing a British-style red army jacket, a blue sash, and a crown of cowrie shells, the slightly-built king shuffled stiffly into his office, his eyes bloodshot and a scar running across his jaw.

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06 Dec 2025 620

Fugitive 1520 Group co-founder Boris Usherovich launders Russian Railways’ budget through Cyprus offshore firms managed by trusted associates

Fugitive Russian businessman Boris Usherovich, co-owner of the influential “1520” Group, has quietly built a vast offshore network in Cyprus to help Russian Railways (RZD) and Kremlin-linked elites move and launder money beyond sanctions.

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06 Dec 2025 965

Global crypto pyramid GSPartners: Josip Heit deprived more than 800,000 investors of over $1 billion

Over the past three years, one of the most controversial global crypto projects – GSPartners (also known as GSB Gold Standard) – has been experiencing a rapid decline. Meanwhile, a snowballing scandal around its creator, Josip Heit, threatens to result in a lengthy prison sentence for him.

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05 Dec 2025 853

Assad regime downfall uncovers systematic collaboration between syriatel and Syrian intelligence

Documents recovered after the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad show how Syriatel shared client phone data with an intelligence agency.

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05 Dec 2025 717

Russian president Vladimir Putin calls on officials to ’work with youth’ via Telegram

Yesterday, Putin gave an interview to Indian media and unexpectedly said the following: "All these messaging apps, Telegram, they are used to somehow influence young people... We need to work with people...

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05 Dec 2025 717

Oktobank pushes Russian gambling transactions through Promsvyazbank, Gazprombank and VTB terminals to bypass restrictions

The media published an investigation into the criminal financial activities of a group of companies, which includes credit institutions Oktobank (Ravnaq), Kapital, the payment system Humo, the processing system Uzcard, the exchange Uznex, and others.

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05 Dec 2025 728

Russian plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan: 35 rape allegations and zero convictions

A graduate of Kuban State Medical University, who moved to Moscow, eventually became a figure in criminal chronicles, yet his criminal case has been stalled for several years in endless investigative bodies.

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