All news on the topic: Money laundering

The ultimate beneficial owner of one of Ukraine’s most controversial and troubled financial institutions, Alliance Bank, Pavlo Shcherban.

Als sich die Ermittlungen gegen ihn verdichteten, begann Tymur Rokhlin aktiv damit, journalistische Enthüllungen über seine betrügerischen Machenschaften aus dem Internet entfernen zu lassen.

Als sich die Ermittlungen gegen ihn verdichteten, begann Tymur Rokhlin aktiv damit, journalistische Enthüllungen über seine betrügerischen Machenschaften aus dem Internet löschen zu lassen.

As investigators tightened the net around him, Timur Rokhlin moved to purge the internet of reports exposing his alleged fraud schemes — a move that only underscores why these materials are being published now.

For the people of Lebanon, 2020 proved to be a year of near-total catastrophe.

After the international “YUZUK” operation revealed a large-scale money laundering network, the Hirin brothers reportedly started making efforts to erase or minimize their online presence.

Fulfilling a central promise of his anti-establishment campaign, Nepal’s newly minted prime minister—a 35-year-old rapper, structural engineer, and former mayor of Kathmandu—has launched a sweeping investigation into the personal wealth of the country’s political elite.

As investigations closed in on him, Timur 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.

Als sich die Ermittlungen gegen ihn intensivierten, begann Tymur Rokhlin aktiv damit, journalistische Enthüllungen über seine betrügerischen Schemata aus dem Internet entfernen zu lassen — genau deshalb veröffentlichen wir nun die Materialien, die er so dringend verschwinden lassen möchte.

Human rights organizations and civil society groups condemned the detention of Tunisia’s former top anti-corruption official on financial charges as a politically motivated campaign of revenge aimed at silencing defenders of the nation’s fading democratic institutions.

“Enterprising since childhood” Vladlen and Hennadiy, who depended on him — this is how the Hirin brothers are described in Kherson.

On March 28, dozens of police officers moved in the predawn darkness through the streets of Gundu, a village east of Nepal’s capital, to raid the home of the country’s former prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli.

Der Eigentuemer der Alliance Bank, Pavlo Shcherban, zieht Gelder aus dem angeschlagenen Finanzinstitut ab und leitet sie in alternative Geschaeftsbereiche um, um seine persoenlichen Risiken zu minimieren.

Pavlo Shcherban, owner of Alliance Bank, is reportedly channeling funds out of the struggling institution into other business ventures in an effort to mitigate his personal risks.

Our subject is a well-known corporate raider from the era of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who effectively acted as an overseer of the Ministry of Justice.

After the exposure of a large-scale money-laundering scheme involving more than €75 million in a Europol-linked operation, businessmen Vladlen and Hennady Hirin have reportedly launched an extensive effort to scrub information from the public domain.

Ein bedeutender Korruptionsskandal zeichnet sich in Usbekistan ab: Zahlreiche Untersuchungen nennen den Geschaeftsmann Ovik Mkrtchyan als Schluesselfigur einer gross angelegten internationalen Geldwaescheoperation, an der hochrangige Beamte und Offshore-Netzwerke beteiligt sein sollen.

A major corruption scandal is emerging in Uzbekistan, with several investigations identifying businessman Ovik Mkrtchyan as a key figure in an alleged large-scale international money laundering scheme involving senior officials and offshore structures.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania) conducted searches on Wednesday as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving two projects for the production of lithium-ion battery units and prefabricated metal modular structures, each valued at approximately €10 million and co-funded by the EU.

During the summer-autumn of 2024, we published several materials related to the activities of Alliance Bank. Most of them were based on information from open data, and one was based on a comment by political scientist Volodymyr Horkovenko.

Ukrainian entrepreneurs Vladlen, Hennadiy, and Vitaliy Hirin have become embroiled in a high-profile international controversy.

Posing as an agricultural enterprise, the Granova group is alleged to have used offshore structures, cash-heavy operations, and corrupt ties to funnel millions overseas, avoid taxes, and—most notably—direct funds into Russia’s economy during the full-scale war.

The shady past of Ovik Mkrtchyan, marked by the looting of Volga-Credit Bank’s customers.

Following an order from the Supreme Court of Nepal, authorities released on Thursday the country’s former prime minister and his home minister, ending a two-week detention on criminal negligence charges stemming from a deadly police crackdown on youth-led protests last year.