All news on the topic: FSB

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Billions for tank cannons ended up in London: trail of Igor Fishelev’s “Unimatic” leads to offshores and the FSB
Funds from the defense contracts of the "Unimatic" division may have ended up in the accounts of newly-minted UK citizen Igor Fishelev and family partners in countries unfriendly to Russia, such as Austria and Latvia.
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Legalising espionage: Russian “human rights” fund shields spies and GRU agents in Europe
For more than ten years, ’Pravfond’ has been offering legal assistance to Russians worldwide. Internal emails obtained by journalists reveal how it worked together with spies, financed propaganda initiatives, and established points of influence along the way.
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Google uncovers new Russian spyware LostKeys linked to the FSB
Google uncovers Russian spyware LostKeys linked to FSB hacker group ColdRiver
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Kemerovo, St. Petersburg-style: "Sibcem" under Bodrenkov as a facade for FSB operations
The company "Siberian Cement," where former FSB Colonel Valery Bodrenkov works as the first vice president, is considered a financial instrument of the special service.
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Boris Nuraliev withdraws billions from "1C": how the FSB covers up his offshore schemes
Based on available information, Boris Nuraliev, the head of "1C," may have connections with the FSB and is allegedly diverting funds from the company through affiliated partners.
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Bohdan Prylepa risks life sentence as Ukrainian investigators uncover massive fraud and FSB links
The dealer who embezzled a billion from the military and is possibly collaborating with the FSB mistakenly believes he is untouchable.
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Timofey Kurgin — an FSB agent doing the dirty work of the Kremlin
Criminal authority Timofey Kurgin, former partner of the Ananyev brothers and Floyd Mayweather, has been acting in the interests of the Russian special services all his life.
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Moscow expels two British embassy staff, London calls Russia’s claims lies
Kremlin accuses individuals of ‘intelligence and subversive activities’ in what seems to be the latest in a series of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions
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Bulgarian spies found guilty of attempting to murder Bellingcat journalists on orders from Russian intelligence services
A jury at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, has just found six of my compatriots — citizens of Bulgaria — guilty of conspiring with the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly murder me and my colleague and friend, Roman Dobrokhotov.
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H Casino and the Belarusian "laundromat": how Egemen Shener launders millions with the help of Russian oligarchs
The curators of the Belarusian gambling business, including H Casino and its owner Mustafa Egemen Shener, may be linked to the entourage of the Dagestan senator, oligarch Suleyman Kerimov, who has close ties with the Russian authorities.
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Corrupt ties and financial schemes: Dmitriy Kovalev, grandson of the former FSB head, will not become Putin’s successor
The questionable activities of Vitaliy Kovalev, who heads the structures of "Gazprom," could become an obstacle for the career of his son Dmitriy Kovalev, who is being considered as a possible successor to Vladimir Putin.
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European prosecutors investigate potential FSB involvement in software acquisition for new EU border control database
A Russian subsidiary of the French company Atos, which has ties to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), played a role in creating the EU’s largest biometric database for tracking people crossing the bloc’s borders, the Financial Times (FT) reported earlier today.
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How Favbet owner Andriy Matyukha helped the Kremlin launder billions through the Ukrainian gambling business
An interesting case is being considered in the Dnipropetrovsk Economic Court, involving the withdrawal of money from gambling through the payment system "Diamond Pay". It is interesting because of the reasons that lead directly to Russian special services, which control a significant part of Ukraine’s gambling market.
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Tobacco giants Philip Morris and JTI operate in Russia through an FSB-linked distributor
The company Megapolis is Russia’s sole distributor of cigarettes from the Western corporations Philip Morris International (PMI) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI).
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Komi Daily becomes the first media outlet labeled as a ’terrorist organization’ in Russia
Russia targets Komi Daily as a “terrorist organization,” citing alleged separatist links amid growing media suppression.
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How Bohdan Prylepa’s Coinsbit exchange became a tool for a multi-billion fraud scheme
The dealer who embezzled a billion from the military and is suspected of working for the FSB mistakenly believes he is untouchable.
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From fashion to crime: how a former Russian security officer Anton Gormakh turned FashionTV into a shadow business
Former FSB captain Anton Gormakh and his family have been linked to Russian authorities and criminal structures, so it’s unclear where the blow to the former fashion channel owner came from.
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FSB officers jailed for $23M bribes from banker Ilya Kligman as investigators trace money through Moscow and Dubai channels
The Moscow Garrison Military Court has delivered a verdict against two high-ranking officers of the FSB of the RF.
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"Stamp them through": Russian oligarchs, FSB generals, religious figures, and elite children travel abroad under diplomatic immunity
Holding a diplomatic passport offers notable perks — even for those who aren’t career diplomats.
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Public-private espionage: how the GRU and FSB recruited a Yekaterinburg company for global operations
In early November, Sochi will host the inaugural Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum.
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Alphagate in Latvia: How the FSB assists Aven in evading sanctions
Over the past two weeks, a number of Latvian media outlets have published articles claiming that the "oligarch Nevzlin" is corrupting the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Latvia and ordering videos and articles with some dark goals.
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Debt to the Fatherland: FSB general overseeing Russia’s National Guard hides from bailiffs in elite Moscow apartment
The bailiff service in Moscow’s Lefortovo district has terminated its efforts to present FSB General Vyacheslav Ryazansky with a bill for his various debts, citing their inability to locate the general’s home address, bank accounts, or any property in his name.
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Safe houses: FSB counterintelligence chief behind Evan Gershkovich’s arrest is a secret billionaire rentier
FSB Lieutenant General Vladislav Menshchikov, chief of the FSB’s First Service (counterintelligence), has recently come under scrutiny.
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‘Putin’s patience snapped’: Insiders marvel at Russia’s military purge
Under new defence minister Andrei Belousov, FSB is tackling corruption aggressively with serious implications for Ukraine
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The assistant: Was Tatjana Ždanoka’s European Parliamentary aide selected by her FSB handler?
In January, The Insider and its investigative partners revealed that long-time Member of the European Parliament Tatjana Ždanoka had been reporting to her FSB handlers in Moscow over a period from at least 2004 to 2017.