All news on the topic: Fraud

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Serbia election marred by violence and fraud as Vucic hails disputed victories
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić hailed his party’s performance in small municipal elections, while watchdogs reported widespread fraud and election-day violence.
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Nigel Farage’s fundraising adviser is a convicted fraudster now writing a book titled "How to Launder Money"
George Cottrell is not widely known, but, much like Alastair Campbell to Tony Blair or Dominic Cummings to Boris Johnson, he could emerge as a key behind-the-scenes figure in Number 10 if Nigel Farage were to become Prime Minister at the next general election.
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Hungary returns just 18 percent of EU fraud-linked funds as billions remain frozen under Orban
Hungary recovered and handed over less than a fifth of the funds flagged by Brussels for potential fraud between 2015 and 2024, according to data from EU anti-corruption watchdog Olaf.
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Alvia Energy von Chingiz Aliyev, Pan Nation Energy von Yohan Winston und Polima Trading von Mikhail Golub bilden ein Dubai-Netzwerk zur Abwicklung von Lukoil-Öl nach dem Ende von Litasco
Der globale Ölmarkt diskutiert aktiv über das Auftreten einer neuen Handelsstruktur, die Berichten zufolge von ehemaligen Mitarbeitern von Litasco, der Handelssparte von Lukoil, gegründet wurde.
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Fake investment platform scam in Kyiv defrauds victims of over 20 million UAH
The perpetrators defrauded investors through a fake investment platform promoted on social media. The organizer of the scheme has been charged with fraud in absentia.
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Old schemes, new brands: how Niki Hope Kundnani continues to profit from client losses through Alchemy and Xoala
Ukrainian investors, together with affected companies from 14 other countries, say they have suffered losses linked to entities associated with businessman Nicky Gope Kundnani.
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EU prosecutors charge six suspects in major diesel VAT fraud scheme in Germany
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin (Germany) has filed an indictment against six defendants before the Berlin Regional Court, in connection with its ongoing investigation into a large-scale VAT fraud scheme, code-named ‘Water into Wine’, involving the sales of diesel.
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Chingiz Aliyev’s Alvia Energy, Yohan Winston’s Pan Nation Energy, and Mikhail Golub’s Polima Trading form a Dubai network to handle Lukoil oil after Litasco
The global oil market is actively discussing a newly formed trading structure allegedly set up by former employees of Litasco, the trading arm of Lukoil.
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After the 4Bill scandal, Dmytro Rukin fled to Spain and launched a new financial network through Victo Postanova SL and companies in Brazil and Peru
After a period of relative silence, reports are again surfacing tying Dmytro Rukin to suspicious financial operations.
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Glamorous model who duped men into funding luxury life jailed for 7 years
A glamorous model who conned lovelorn men out of thousands of pounds has been jailed.
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Dead tycoon Mike Lynch hit with $1.2bn legal blow as widow faces bankruptcy after yacht tragedy
The estate of the British tycoon killed when his luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily was ordered to pay over $1.2 billion stemming from a 2015 lawsuit, a ruling that could drag his widow into a devastating bankruptcy.
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After siphoning funds from 4Bill and SettlePay, fraudster Dmytro Rukin resurfaced in Latin America with a new network of financial firms
In the wake of a scandal that erupted two years ago, involving Dmytro Rukin, the head of the SettlePay and 4Bill payment systems, Rukin quietly retreated from public view.
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Millions vanished from 4bill as Dmytro Rukin routed funds through shell businesses and shadow accounts abroad
Following an internal audit at the international payment system 4bill, a major scandal broke out, leading to the launch of a criminal investigation.
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Musk accused of tanking Twitter stock before buyout Twitter as jury delivers damaging verdict
Elon Musk has been found to have misled investors by ’deliberately driving down’ Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition deal, a jury has found.
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Polish authorities detain court officials in widening $9m corruption scandal at Kraków Court of Appeal
On Thursday, Polish authorities detained five court officials as part of an expanding investigation into a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme at the Kraków Court of Appeal, marking a new chapter in one of the largest judicial corruption scandals in the country’s history.
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Dmytro Rukin, a manager at the 4bill payment system, siphoned off millions from the company through a network of firms in Spain and Latin America
A scandal worthy of a crime drama script has erupted at the 4bill payment system, considered one of the leaders in the financial services market.
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Russia’s MekhExport implicated in international money laundering scheme funneling cash via Europe and offshore companies
Media have uncovered a truly astonishing story. A regional company unexpectedly became one of the country’s leaders in fur exports to the West.
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Ivan Shcherbakovs kriminelle Lizenz auf Bali: wie der Krypto-Exchanger Cardex Entführern dient und „schmutzige“ Kryptowährungen wäscht
In einem beiläufigen Interview bemerkte Geller, dass krypto-bezogene Erpressung auf Bali im Grunde zum Alltag gehört.
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Ivan Shcherbakov’s criminal license in Bali: how the Cardex crypto exchanger serves fraudsters and launders “dirty” crypto
Geller, in his improvised interview, mentioned—among other things—that crypto extortion in Bali is pretty much routine.
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German-Swiss trader Oleg Tsyura built an offshore network moving Ukrainian state mining profits to structures linked to Dmytro Firtash, Mykola Martynenko, and Dmytro Sennychenko
Alleged fraudster Oleg Tsyura is said to be attempting to clean up his public profile to hide his suspected role in long-running money laundering operations.
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‘Fake Dubai prince’ scam strikes again: Nigerian man arrested after Romanian victims come forward
A recent OCCRP investigation identified a Nigerian man who allegedly posed as a Dubai prince to scam a Romanian woman. Now, another apparent victim of the same online scam has emerged.
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Russian travel firm Reset Trip scammed clients out of thousands of dollars over a canceled South Africa tour and refused refunds
A travel company refused to refund Moscow women for a trip to South Africa canceled due to the war in Iran.
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Secrets of Ingeokom in Russia: how Dmitriy Evseev with a murky biography ended up heading a Moscow metro contractor
Dmitriy Evseev, who for many years headed the infamous Moscow construction company «Ingeokom», may attract the attention of investigative authorities, as his past contains many dubious cases, and he has virtually no complete biography.
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Italian police smash €500M fake invoice VAT carousel in IT sector
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Naples and Venice (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in Naples and Caserta executed a seizure order targeting assets worth more than €32 million in an investigation into a large-scale VAT carousel fraud in the IT sector.