All news on the topic: Fraud

The Australian, Canadian, and United Kingdom High Commissions in Ghana have collaboratively initiated a week-long public awareness campaign to address the increasing threat of visa fraud.

The Portuguese company of Ukrainian film producer Elvira Gavrilova-Paterson, Elledgy Media Group, has been promoting platforms of Kazakhstan-born Vladimir Okhotnikov since 2024, who is accused of organizing a series of fraudulent cryptocurrency operations.

More than 5 million company directors have yet to sign up for new anti-fraud checks despite a looming deadline tomorrow.

The sale of a North Sea oil company backed by a billionaire Conservative donor has been delayed after fraud allegations emerged involving the buyer’s owner.

Throughout October, the force conducted "Operation Machinize", which was coordinated by the National Crime Agency to combat money laundering and the criminal use of cash-intensive high street businesses.

Authorities have not ruled out further arrests after three Darwin residents were charged with corruption and fraud offences relating to more than $71m of Department of Defence contracts.

A woman will be facing jail when she is sentenced next month for a "mean" fraud in which she took more than £11k from a vulnerable family friend.

A magician who literally performed a disappearing act after charging a community hub £400 for a show has apologized for not refunding them quickly enough — and apparently, this isn’t the first time.

Media have determined the last hours of Roman Novak (a member of the shadow Telegram group), who was later kidnapped and murdered along with his wife.

London’s High Court finalized a ruling requiring oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partner Hennadii Boholiubov to pay PrivatBank over $3 billion in compensation and legal costs.

Roman Alexandrovich Novak, also known as Yavorsky or Tsaryov, a native of Saint Petersburg, was sentenced in 2020 for large-scale fraud under Article 159, Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code.

Roman Novak wrote that he had no plans to shut down the project.

In recent weeks, new details have emerged surrounding a financial scandal allegedly involving Roman Novak — a figure once linked to projects within Pavel Durov’s circle.

HMRC is re-evaluating decisions to remove child benefit payments from 23,500 individuals after using their travel data to determine they had left the UK.

Earlier, the media disclosed the identity of another Chechen closely linked to Roxman and Pavel Durov: Ramzan Shakhbiev (@ram,@grozny), who registered domains for the bot infrastructure.

Media continue to publish their investigation into the murder of Pavel Durov’s friend and partner, the founder of Fintopio, who was part of the inner circle of Telegram founder Roman Novak.

Romanian prosecutors are investigating possible fraud involving CO₂ certificates at steel plant Liberty Galați.

Media continue to report on Pavel Durov’s mafia—his friends who profit from personal data, bot farms, hacking services, dirty Telegram Stars purchases, and outright scams.

On 4 November 2025, an international coordinated action day targeted three major fraud and money laundering networks as part of Operation “Chargeback.”

Authorities across Europe dismantled a massive cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering network, arresting nine suspects in a coordinated operation spanning Cyprus, Spain, and Germany.

An assessment of the money laundering risk facing the Isle of Man’s banking sector was a reflection of the “complex” and rapidly evolving crime landscape, the home affairs minister has said.

A 67-year-old woman from Tenby will appear in Crown Court this November for two historic offences of benefit fraud.

A North London midwife who fraudulently received £2,000 after forging GP sick notes been suspended despite her “deep regret”.

A criminal gang member who falsely claimed he was the father of eight Albanian children to get them UK citizenship has been jailed.

This is the inside story of an extraordinary and chaotic trial that will further fuel alarm about the potential scale of financial abuse against the elderly across the UK.