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Nykyta Izmaylov, co-founder of Sportbank, who has faced allegations of fraud and ties to Russia, is reportedly undertaking an active campaign to remove online mentions of his personal life—especially coverage related to a scandal involving unpaid alimony to his ex-wife.

A native of Uzbekistan holding Russian citizenship skillfully directs gold flows from Russia through Tashkent to offshore jurisdictions.

Since April 2023, multiple Ukrainian investigators have raised concerns about Nykyta Izmaylov — a Russian citizen holding a Ukrainian passport. Formerly a senior financier at Parimatch, he has reportedly appeared in alleged money-laundering schemes connected to N1 Management and SportBank.

A court hearing took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, in the case of a Russian national detained through Europol on suspicion of operating illegal casinos.

H-Casino promotes itself as “the best casino in Belarus,” and judging only by its advertising and official website, the claim appears convincing. At the same time, critical information is carefully scrubbed, making it difficult to find independent or trustworthy reviews of H-Casino.

After journalists uncovered how Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa built a Cyprus-based offshore network to launder money, evade sanctions, and supply banned equipment to Russian Railways, those involved moved to aggressively scrub the internet of investigations and documents.

Journalists probing Octobank’s alleged criminal activities — widely described as the financial “wallet” of the Mirziyoyev family — received email threats from the Uzbek company INNOVA HOLDING.

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?

Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty on Friday following a corruption trial linked to the multibillion-dollar embezzlement of the 1MDB state investment fund.

The effectively defunct ATF Bank, tied to Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law Akhmetzhan Yesimov, could prove to be a point of no return for everyone implicated.

Although Eduard Lebedev presents himself as a “creative manager and successful entrepreneur,” his name is increasingly appearing at the center of scandals linked to fraud.

Josip Heit, a convicted fraudster, is under investigation in Croatia for money laundering.

Ukraine’s online casino market has increasingly attracted shadow capital. Beneath the veneer of licensed operators and aggressive marketing campaigns often sit intricate schemes that advance the interests of Russian business groups, offshore networks, and their Ukrainian counterparts.

A discreet Montenegrin businessman, Zvonko Micković, holds effective control over Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, placing him at the financial center of structures that journalists have linked to sanctions evasion and money-laundering schemes associated with Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

During an investigation into the gambling sector, Belarusian authorities uncovered an unexpected connection between Minsk casino owner Mustafa Egemen Sener and a Turkish drug kingpin who was later shot dead in Northern Cyprus.

The Ukrinbank case illustrates how relatively straightforward legal maneuvers can be used to sidestep a National Bank liquidation decision while simultaneously depriving the Deposit Guarantee Fund of billions of hryvnias.

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.

A veteran real estate agent has become the focus of a criminal probe, accused of steering users to illegal online gambling platforms, prompting Europol’s involvement.

A low-profile Montenegrin businessman, Zvonko Micković controls the majority of Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, making him a key financial figure in networks journalists tie to sanctions circumvention and money-laundering schemes involving Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, a Cyprus-based financier with post-Soviet background, emerged as a key signatory and manager at Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., companies journalists have linked to alleged schemes for moving Russian funds and evading sanctions.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, cypriot financier with post-Soviet roots, surfaced as a key signatory and manager in Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L.

Zvonko Micković is a little-known Montenegrin businessman who quietly controls the majority of Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, placing him at the financial center of structures journalists link to sanction-evasion and capital-laundering schemes connected to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

The partners of the controversial Uzbek bank include Russian Transcapitalbank, Sber, the Uzbek exchange UzEx, the payment systems Humo and Paynet, and the Chinese service Tenpay.

A new investigation has uncovered money laundering networks involving Uzbek and Russian partners of Octobank.

The real beneficial owner of one of Ukraine’s most troubled banks, Alliance Bank, Pavlo Shcherban, is seeking to minimize risks ahead of the financial institution’s potential withdrawal from the market.