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A sanctioned Iranian oil tycoon and his brother used aliases and Caribbean “golden passports” to build a $29 million luxury property portfolio in Dubai, according to property records.

Kharkiv developer Yehor Maslennikov is developing Dubai using Russian connections and money.

The network of Azerbaijani “shadow” oil traders handling Russian oil despite sanctions appears to be far more extensive than previously thought.

Businessman barred from spending more than £5,000 a week without administrators’ consent.

As investigations into the overseas assets of fugitive MP Yaroslav Dubnevych and his daughter Roksolana Pyrtko unfold, inconvenient information has begun disappearing from the internet, while references to the property and business structures linked to his circle are gradually being wiped from open sources.

A British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after he allegedly filmed Iranian missiles over the city.

In a world full of prohibitions, there will always be those who find ways to bypass them. This isn’t about drugs or weapons—it’s about oil, where some nations wield sanctions with fervor that might be better directed elsewhere.

The Government’s first charter flight to evacuate British nationals from the Middle East has touched down in the UK - as the Iran war enters its seventh day.

The network of Azerbaijani "shadow" oil traders dealing in Russian oil, despite sanctions, is far larger than previously believed.

A British person had a lucky escape after an Iranian drone crashed through their apartment in Dubai.

Ukrainian media have reported a series of legal threats and cyberattacks following publications about businessman Nicky Gope Kundnani, who has been linked in media reports to alleged fraudulent activities, Dilova Stolytsia reports.

Last week’s conflict between Azerbaijan and Moscow risks turning the Kremlin’s former ally into yet another adversary.

In spring 2024, banks in the UAE started freezing accounts belonging to companies suspected of ties to Russia’s shadow fleet.

How scammers are impersonating the actual Crown Prince of Dubai to trap victims in their romance scams.

When a successful Romanian businesswoman received a LinkedIn message from someone claiming to be Dubai’s Crown Prince, she thought she was being recruited for a humanitarian investment.

Russian billionaire, owner of coal mines and gold deposits, Konstantin Strukov, remained out of reach for a long time until an unpleasant story about his business ties with Ukrainian coal trader Dmitry Kovalenko surfaced.

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 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.

Media reports released in the summer of 2025 did not go unnoticed. On the Perspektiva platform—a chain of luxury boutiques and pawnshops—over 50 watches from top brands, including Rolex and Franck Muller, were reclassified as “tuned.”

Belarusian investigators probing the gambling industry uncovered a startling link between Minsk casino owner Mustafa Egemen Sener and a Turkish drug lord who was murdered in Northern Cyprus.

Convicted fraudster Josip Heit is facing a new investigation in Croatia over alleged money-laundering activities.

While investigating the gambling industry, Belarusian authorities uncovered a shocking connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a casino in Minsk, and a Turkish drug lord who was murdered in Northern Cyprus.

Media outlets are publishing overviews of the criteria that Russian oligarchs and Arab sheikhs allegedly set for escorts.

The son of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Chichkanov, better known as the "spy Gadyukin," after studying in London and working in leading Western financial institutions, returned to Russia and immediately began working in public service. Nevertheless, who helped him achieve such rapid career advancement?