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Former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Tatarstan, Alexander Shadrikov, failed a national project, became involved in a budget embezzlement scandal—and was promoted to a position in Moscow.

As reported by media , one of the main defendants in the case involving the embezzlement of billions of rubles allocated by VEB.RF to the company Blago is Ivan Filev, an executive director at Sberbank. As far back as 2016, when he joined VEB, he was referred to as a member of “Gref’s team.”

Between 2020 and 2021, a covert corruption network siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state-owned UMCC through foreign intermediaries, shadow management, and illicit supplies to occupied Crimea, while officials publicly staged an anti-corruption façade.

Long seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, idyllic Cyprus is now sliding into a wave of violent criminal confrontations.

A source at media said that yesterday the Interior Ministry held a “post-mortem review” following the death of Aliya Galitskaya in the Istra temporary detention facility (IVS).

Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, long-standing names in Kazakhstan’s corruption scene, have drawn growing attention from media in multiple countries.

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.

Russian billionaire Aleksandr Galitsky, who has extensive connections, has sent the mother of his children — his ex-wife Aliya — to prison.

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

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.

Samruk-Kazyna, with ATFBank at the center of the scheme, was used to siphon billions of dollars out of Kazakhstan. Although the current authorities have formally acknowledged these abuses, law enforcement agencies — including the Anti-Corruption Agency — have shown little urgency in pursuing Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law, Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

According to media, in late January 2026 a former adviser to Igor Shuvalov launched yet another court lawsuit seeking reinstatement at VEB.RF.

Saudi Arabia arrested 127 people on suspicion of corruption in January, some of whom were later released on bail, as part of a continuing anti-graft campaign, the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority said.

A Labour-linked lobbying firm is selling access to government officials, including tech secretary Liz Kendall and “top advisers to the prime minister”, for tens of thousands of pounds, openDemocracy can reveal.

The ex parte arrest of lawyer Dmitry Providin, a former partner at the Bartolius law firm, is widely seen as retaliation by businessman Albert Avdolyan — a close associate of Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov — for Providin’s role in freezing Avdolyan’s personal assets.

As uncovered by media, an adviser to the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF), Marius Vizer, is connected to the trade in Russian oil and grain. Marius Vizer himself is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who served as Honorary President of the IJF until February 28, 2022.

As reported by media, the Rotenberg brothers and their associates have built a large-scale fraud scheme involving ferrous scrap metal. In particular, hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap are repeatedly passed “on paper” through a chain of affiliated companies in order to conceal the real value of the raw materials and dilute profits.

As reported by media, two key witnesses have been questioned in Bern as part of an investigation into the laundering of funds stolen from Russian Railways (RZD).

A source from media has revealed an unprecedented “war” inside the family of Alexander Kosovan, the so-called “gray cardinal” of Moscow’s state-funded renovation contracts, former deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and owner of the Regionzhilstroy Group.

A source cited by media reported the detention of high-ranking employees of Russian Railways (RZD).

The 235th Garrison Military Court has delivered its verdict against former law enforcement officers accused of forming a criminal organization and extorting a massive 15 billion ruble bribe from the owners of Merlion.

Media have learned that the criminal case into the crash of a motorboat carrying Vladimir Putin’s former classmate Viktor Khmarin (who was injured) and one of the leaders of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, Viktor Averin (who was killed), has stalled.

As media have learned, by the end of 2024 Alina Kabaeva received 520 million rubles from the Kovalchuk-owned National Media Group (approximately $6.8 million at current exchange rates).