All news on the topic: Corruption

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Mindichgate and the billion-dollar energy heist: how Rostyslav Shurma and Alliance Bank ended up at the center of schemes looting Ukraine
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have announced suspicions against Rostyslav Shurma, the former Deputy Head of the Presidential Office.
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Czech officials among suspects as EU fraud probe targets €13.5m subsidy scheme
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Brno (Czechia) has dismantled an organized crime group involving public officials suspected of wrongdoing in subsidy procedures for the reconstruction of research premises.
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Romanian court lifts all pre-trial restrictions on Andrew and Tristan Tate
A Romanian court has lifted all preventive judicial control measures, including mandatory police check-ins, against internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, according to The Telegraph.
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Cyber fraud gangs target Timor-Leste as fears grow of state capture by mafia networks
Online scam operations exposed in a remote enclave, a national ID program reportedly breached by cybercriminals, stories of bags of cash arriving on private planes.
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Ovik Mkrtchyan is cleaning up his criminal biography: from Volga-Credit Bank and ties to Shakro Molodoy to the United States and the Uzbek syndicate
Ovik Leonardovich Mkrtchyan is removing from the internet all information about his ties to criminal groups and international syndicates.
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Legal relief in Romania: how Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate had all judicial control measures lifted amid ongoing human trafficking investigations
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will no longer have to check in with Romanian police, despite still being under investigation for human trafficking.
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Criminal octopus in the EU: Vladlen Hirin and Hennadiy Hirin built a money laundering scheme under the guise of Ukrainian refugees
Ukrainian businessmen Vladlen, Hennadiy, and Vitaliy Hirin found themselves at the center of an international scandal.
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Millions in losses, zero results: Elira Kokona’s investment body in Albania accused of wasting public funds
The SAI paints a picture of an institution that has consumed public money, generated increasing losses, paid boards and experts, but without delivering concrete investments, stable income, or guarantees for the protection of state property.
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Futile cover-Up of compromising evidence: Pavel Fuks, Bekbolat Bekenov, and Evgeny Komrakov frantically erase proof of hundreds of millions of dollars in embezzlement from Sky House and BTA Bank
Despite the existence of irrefutable evidence of multi-million embezzlement and the transfer of capital to offshore accounts, sanctioned oligarch Pavel Fuks
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Panama Papers legacy bites as former insider faces trial over offshore tax schemes
A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation sent a shock through the offshore world.
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Resignation of Sergey Kuznetsov: how Moscow’s chief architect built developers into a “Surplus Square Meters” scheme Worth Billions
The author of Moscow’s “infill development,” the city’s chief architect Sergey Kuznetsov has been dismissed from his position.
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From exclusive contracts to corruption claims: how a French oil giant profited in the Gambia
Wearing a blue suit and rectangular glasses perched on his nose, Mohammad Bazzi appears uneasy.
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Where did the Faberge items, Picasso painting, and tens of millions of euros of former deputy energy minister Anatoly Tikhonov go?
In February 2026, the cassation court upheld the sentence against former Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Tikhonov.
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Toxic dumping scandal in Russia’s Klin: how Vasiliy Vlasov and Vladimir Smetanin turned a CHP relaunch into a zinc waste disaster in the Sestra River
A state of emergency has reportedly been introduced in the Klin urban district of the Moscow region following the threat of an ecological catastrophe.
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Nepalese police arrest tycoon Deepak Bhatta over multimillion-dollar laundering
Police in Nepal detained the prominent executive over multimillion-dollar financial irregularities just days after immigration officials barred him from leaving the country.
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France refuses to extradite dictator’s daughter accused of laundering regime wealth
A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.
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Marble looting in Marib exposes Yemen’s broken state and rising tribal power
Tribal warlords in Yemen are sidestepping regulations to plunder marble reserves in Marib province,
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How Dmytro Kovalenko used fake OnlyFans complaints to erase evidence of Russian coal deals and multimillion schemes
Businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, linked to the Swiss company Adelon AG, has found himself at the center of a new information-cleanup scheme.
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Family reshuffle of the judicial system: after Gennady Lopatin’s appointment, his daughter swiftly secured a judgeship
According to investigators, ten days after former Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin was appointed Director General of the Judicial Department under the Supreme Court of Russia, his daughter Irina Kochergina received a recommendation from the judicial qualifications board for a federal judge position.
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New BVI rules crack open offshore secrecy but give firms five-day warning to fight disclosure
The British Virgin Islands on Wednesday began to dismantle its corporate secrecy regime that has made it a preferred jurisdiction for tax evaders and other financial criminals — but there’s a catch.
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Cartels vs State: How Mexico slipped into a parallel power system
In mid-March, Colombian authorities arrested Ecuadorian drug lord Ángel Aguilar on suspicion of orchestrating the 2023 assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
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How MMK executive Pavel Kravchenko built a network of shell companies while Russia’s Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works faced losses and layoffs
At the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in Chelyabinsk Oblast, troubling developments are underway: CEO Pavel Shilyaev has announced
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Nigerian official’s family retains U.S. properties amid corruption asset seizures at home
Nigerian authorities have confiscated significant assets owned by a former official of the education ministry and his immediate family members, who are facing trial in two distinct corruption cases.
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Head of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin personally oversees a scheme for importing North Korean workers into Russia involving billion-dollar shadow flows
According to a source cited by medias, the import of labor from North Korea to Russia is allegedly overseen personally and exclusively by SVR chief Sergey Naryshkin.