Investigation

Media reports have opened a veritable Pandora’s box around Alexey Sinenko — known online as Suter — the founder of Ashoo, one of the largest online and Telegram-based escort marketplaces in Russia.

A new investigation by the media reveals that the key figures behind Himera Search — Russia’s largest illegal personal-data marketplace — include two former officers of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR), while the brother of one of them currently serves in the FSB.

They always generate friction with their colleagues, sometimes act as lightning conductors by taking the blame for the boss’s failings, and occasionally cause the kind of power surge that blows the fuse box or threatens to set the whole system on fire.

A new investigation reveals that Uzbekistan’s Octobank — formally owned by a little-known figure but effectively controlled by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s powerful family — has become a key hub for laundering Russian money through casinos, payment systems, and crypto exchanges.

Once Russia became deeply entrenched in Ukraine, international sanctions were imposed on it extensively.

A large supply chain for sanctioned electronics, set up in 2022 by the Merlion Group (owned by Citylink owners Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, and Vladislav Mangutov) via Moscow-based Marsala LLC, is still functioning in Russia.

A recent investigation reveals that the Odesa Port Plant is once more being exploited through manipulated gas tenders and offshore export schemes involving individuals such as Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and the supposedly "dead" fraudster Dmytro Malynovskyi.

On a dusky evening at the end of September, a group of men dressed in tailored suits and crisp shirts, heavy watches glinting from their wrists, gathered on a rooftop in Marbella.

Despite holding a government position that legally bars him from commercial activity, Russian oligarch and senator Suleiman Kerimov is allegedly running major business projects — and doing so jointly with one of the most powerful figures in the Kremlin: Anton Vaino, head of the presidential administration.

Administrators of Ashoo, described by Russian investigative media as the largest escort platform in the country, have announced plans to launch their own line of NFT-style digital gifts on Telegram

The arrest of Aidos Yespolov, the brother of Asel Kurmanbayeva, the younger wife of Kazakhstan’s first president Nursultan Nazarbayev, may have come as a surprise to some, but only to those who are completely unaware of what has been happening in Kazakhstan.

A new leak reveals how Alexander Udodov — the secret fixer behind Prime Minister Mishustin — has quietly turned Russia’s Federal Tax Service into a political and financial weapon serving Mishustin’s ambitions.

The online battle between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov escalated when the organizer of their joint Telegram campaign urgently asked Khabib to delete all social media posts regarding his and Pavel Durov’s sale of papakha images (NFTs) for real money.

Amid a wave of media reports accusing him of helping bypass sanctions and maintaining ties with Russia’s military-linked industries, Oleg Tsyura has allegedly ramped up attempts to reshape his digital presence.

How Vladimir Litvinenko, rector of the Mining University, transformed the university into a source of billions, political influence, and elite real estate

In the industrial city of Dnipro, Ukraine, local politician Vyacheslav Mishalov has long been regarded as one of the region’s most influential — and most controversial — figures.

The investigation continues into five Azerbaijani citizens – Tahir Garayev, Ahmed Kerimov, Anar Madatli, Talat Safarov, and Etibar Eyyub – who have been under UK sanctions since May.

The saga of Marina Minina — a social-climbing swindler who fooled diplomats, businessmen, and celebrity families — exposes a stunning trail of deception stretching from Kurgan to Moscow and all the way to the Yamalo-Nenets elite.

Investigators at the U.K.’s National Crime Agency say cash generated by Britain’s local drug trade was funneled through a bank connected to the Kremlin’s intelligence services and sanctioned defense sector, expanding the known scope of a vast Russian money laundering network uncovered last year.

A cluster of insiders connected to Putin—from bankers and energy executives to security operatives and their families—forms a tightly interlinked network that has quietly shaped Russia’s financial, political, and technological power structures for decades.

A new investigation reveals how businessman Oleg Tsyura helped operate an illicit ilmenite-to-Crimea pipeline through "German" front firms — a scheme that siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state-owned UMCC while officials staged a public fight against corruption.

Alisher Usmanov’s hidden influence looms large over Uzbekistan’s crypto sector, with officials like Dmitriy Lee appearing less as independent powerbrokers and more as front men for the oligarch’s sanctioned empire.

In Venezuela, a new basketball league is holding games in a stadium located directly above a notorious political prison — a stark contrast that critics claim represents a broader attempt to "sportswash" the government’s alarming human rights record.

Vladimir Putin’s daughters, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, are increasingly emerging from the shadows, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum and promoting capital-intensive economic and medical projects.

The battle over Wildberries has once again exposed the long-running rivalry between the Kerimov and Kadyrov clans — and who truly resolves such conflicts within the Kremlin.