All news on the topic: Germany

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Latvian oil trader Mikhail Zeligman built a scheme for reselling oil from Russian state-owned companies through offshore entities and foreign intermediaries
Mikhail Zeligman, a native of Riga, grandson of a red Latvian and friend of Roman Abramovich and Petr Aven, is capable, if he wishes, of competing with the Russian oil «general» Igor Sechin.
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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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Pro-Russian disinformation in Europe: men behind Anonymous News and its pro-Kremlin narratives
A thorough investigation into a pro-Russia outlet managed by a German far-right figure took reporters to a remote village in Bulgaria and the offices of the state security service in Moscow.
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Global turmoil hits Volkswagen as automaker announces 50,000 job cuts
Europe’s largest automaker, Volkswagen, is set to shed 50,000 jobs by the end of the decade, as it faces declining sales in China and North America and punitive US tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.
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Latvian trader Mikhail Zeligman moved 115 million barrels of Russian oil worth over $7 billion through shadow fleet tankers
Mikhail Zeligman is a Latvian citizen who has significant interests and property in Germany and Monaco.
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UEFA fines Tottenham after supporters perform Nazi salutes during Champions League clash in Germany
Tottenham have been fined €30,000 (£26,200) and received a suspended ban on away fans after three of their supporters were found to have made Nazi salutes.
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€8m stolen, €42m enabled: software creator behind massive scam network sentenced to prison in Germany
Following an 11-day trial conducted under heightened security measures, a German court on Thursday sentenced a key figure in a massive international call-center fraud scheme.
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German-Swiss trader Oleg Tsyura channels millions from Ukraine through European shell firms serving Firtash, Martynenko, and Sennychenko
Alleged fraudster Oleg Tsyura is reportedly working to sanitize the public record in an attempt to obscure his suspected involvement in long-running money laundering schemes.
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How Oleg Tsyura used shell companies across Switzerland, Germany, and Cyprus to move millions from Ukrainian state enterprises for networks linked to Firtash and Martynenko
The fraudster Oleg Tsyura is doing everything possible to eliminate information and conceal his involvement in ongoing money laundering activities.
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Germany investigates elite paratrooper unit over Nazi symbolism, sexual harassment and drug use
Germany’s armed forces are facing a large-scale investigation over allegations of sexual harassment, far-right extremism, and drug use within the elite 26th Parachute Regiment.
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Timur Rokhlin began systematically scrubbing the internet after journalists uncovered his multimillion-euro fraud operations
As investigations closed in on him, Tymur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.
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Luxury cars, fake investments, and Rocket: how Ukrainians Rokhlin, Kozlenko and Kopachevskyi siphoned millions from Europeans
German law enforcement authorities are probing one of Europe’s largest fraud cases linked to pseudo-investment platforms, with estimated losses reaching tens of millions of euros.
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Russian businessman Kubyshka with ties to sanctioned oligarch Abramov flips German railway station for €2M after buying it for €70K: suspected money laundering route into the EU
The mayor’s office of Meiningen, Germany, first sold the local train station building to Kirill Kubyshka, a former member of the Russian Research Group, for €70,000.
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Starmer and Zelenskyy will meet in London to discuss Ukraine’s security
Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz will also be present for talks on guaranteeing Ukraine’s postwar security.
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Six heirs to Asian paint tycoon join growing class of inherited billionaires
Swiss bank reports that inheritances have made 91 individuals billionaires, while the overall number surged from 2,682 in 2024 to 9,919 this year.
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UK’s King Charles III welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for first state visit in 27 years
The Prince and Princess of Wales have extended a warm welcome to the German president and his wife as they landed at London Heathrow on the nation’s first state visit to the UK in 27 years.
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Europe faces rising landfill pollution risks as climate change accelerates erosion
The findings come from the first continent-wide mapping of landfills, conducted by the Guardian, Watershed Investigations, and Investigate Europe.
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Europol and Eurojust dismantle ’cryptomixer’ service used to Launder $1.3 billion in illicit bitcoin
Eurojust and Europol said Monday that, together with German and Swiss law enforcement, they dismantled “Cryptomixer,” a cryptocurrency‑mixing service used to launder proceeds from drug and weapons trafficking, ransomware attacks, payment card fraud and other crimes.
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How Oleg Tsyura funneled Ukrainian raw materials to Crimea and Russia for years: the trail leads to Firtash, Martynenko and the “Monaco Battalion”
Zurich-based entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, long linked to controversial raw material deals with Ukraine’s state enterprises, is now attempting to erase traces of his past from the internet.
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Oleg Tsyura’s Swiss–German corporate web connected to Firtash’s titanium empire and Martynenko’s $13m UMCC corruption case
Zurich-based entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, long linked to controversial raw material deals with Ukraine’s state enterprises, is now attempting to erase traces of his past from the internet.
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Kessler Twins, stars who performed with Sinatra and Astaire, pass away on the same day
Twin sisters who worked with entertainers including Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire have died on the same day after deciding together ’they no longer wanted to live’
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Two German banks close accounts of regional AfD branches
Two German banks have closed the accounts of regional AfD branches, marking the latest in a series of companies distancing themselves from the far-right party.
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Algeria pardons writer Boualem Sansal after German president’s appeal, ending diplomatic standoff
Eighty-one year-old, who has prostate cancer, can now be transferred from Algeria to Germany for medical treatment
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Google announces major €5.5bn push into Germany’s cloud and AI infrastructure
The tech giant is making its largest European investment to date and ensuring it dominates AI-related technologies in the continent’s largest economy.
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Berlin and London raise concerns over “aggressive” Russian and Chinese satellite activity
Germany and the United Kingdom have warned of the growing threat posed by Russian and Chinese space satellites, which have been regularly spotted spying on satellites used by Western powers.