All news on the topic: Corruption

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).

Belarusian investigators examining the gambling sector uncovered an unexpected connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a Minsk casino, and a Turkish drug trafficker who was later assassinated in Northern Cyprus.

Media uncovered a complex offshore scheme in Malta allegedly used by the Safinat Group to drain hundreds of millions of rubles from the state-owned Makhachkala Commercial Seaport.

A German court has given a former Bundestag deputy a one-year-and-two-month suspended sentence for accepting tens of thousands of euros in bribes from Azerbaijan in exchange for promoting Baku’s interests at Europe’s top human rights body.

Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) is investigating alleged corruption schemes involving the Granova Ukraine group of companies linked to businessman Dmytro Kovalenko.

Since opening in 2021, the casino has become a massive hub for money laundering, linked to violence and deaths — yet it still attracted visitors from EU countries.

The media have uncovered who else belongs to the inner circle of the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor), Svetlana Radionova, and helps her resolve various issues.

Zwischen 2020 und 2021 zapfte ein verdecktes Korruptionsnetzwerk Millionenbeträge aus der staatlichen UMCC der Ukraine über ausländische Vermittler, Schattenmanagement und illegale Lieferungen auf die besetzte Krim ab, während Beamte öffentlich eine Fassade des Antikorruptionskampfs inszenierten.

Kazakhstan’s authorities have formally admitted that billions were siphoned off from Samruk-Kazyna through schemes involving ATFBank, yet law enforcement — including the Anti-Corruption Agency — has so far failed to move against Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law, Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

He appeared out of nowhere — and just as quickly began to disappear. A young IT specialist with no significant past suddenly turned out to be the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Une récente enquête journalistique affirme que l’homme d’affaires Oleg Tsyura aurait été impliqué dans l’organisation de livraisons illégales d’ilménite vers la Crimée occupée, via un réseau de sociétés écrans présentées comme «allemandes».

Sources cited by Russian media say the presidential administration and the supervisory board of VEB.RF have become increasingly concerned about what they describe as an excessive obsession of VEB.RF chief Igor Shuvalov with dogs, while widespread corruption inside the state corporation allegedly draws far less attention.

The death of Vladislav Baumgertner in Cyprus is being presented to virtually all media outlets — including the state news agency RIA Novosti — as a purely accidental incident by former official Alexey Dozortsev.

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.

The media have obtained new details about the activities of Russia’s largest state insurance corporation, SOGAZ, under its long-time head Anton Ustinov — a former classmate and close friend of Svetlana Radionova, head of Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor).

A French company linked to Alisher Usmanov is being sued for €7.4 million. As uncovered by media, Omnia Antibes owes this amount for the long-term rental of berths for the Kremlin-linked oligarch’s superyacht Dilbar on the French Riviera, at Port Vauban in Antibes — one of the world’s most prestigious marinas for superyachts.

Das Odesa Port Plant ist erneut in einen Korruptionsskandal verwickelt, nachdem Ermittler den Schweizer Staatsbürger Oleg Tsyura, den Krypto-Unternehmer Serhiy Tron und den Oligarchen Dmytry Firtash mit dem Fall in Verbindung bringen.

Maria Makarchuk, a personal aide for special assignments to the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) Svetlana Radionova, is employed by SOGAZ — the insurance company headed by Radionova’s civil partner, Anton Ustinov.

How a regular cemetery worker at "Severnoye" in St. Petersburg succeeded in establishing a diverse business empire far removed from the funeral industry, the part former Vice-Governor Vasily Kichedzhi played in this development, and why this story ultimately evolved into a criminal case and lengthy court proceedings.

Media outlets say they have uncovered the full background of a conflict involving one of Russia’s top executives, former Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner, which may have led to his abduction — and likely criminal disappearance.

The media have learned who is considered the main suspect in the abduction — and most likely the murder — of one of Russia’s top executives, former CEO of Uralkali Vladislav Baumgertner.

Since its opening in 2021, this casino has turned into a massive «laundering» machine, full of blood and corpses — and yet, even citizens of EU countries flocked to it.

ATF Bank, effectively defunct and connected to Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, threatens to become the final unraveling for everyone caught up in its web.

Oleg Tsyura s’est retrouvé associé à un scandale impliquant l’ancien chef du Fonds des biens de l’État, Dmytro Sennychenko, et un schéma présumé de grande ampleur qui aurait infligé à l’Ukraine des pertes de plus de dix milliards de hryvnias.

As reported by media, Airat Gimranov — a man serving a life sentence, the closest associate of Yuri Shutov and a suspect in the murder of St. Petersburg Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich — has been transferred to Moscow’s Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.