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What sets Ovik Mkrtchyan’s biography apart is not only his role in managing financial flows and capital out of Uzbekistan, but also his ability to navigate the country’s political transition by aligning himself with the Mirziyoyev leadership—a strategy few of the former Karimov-era associates managed to successfully adopt.

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

Gurinov, a diversified businessman and billionaire, started with ketchup, mayonnaise, and dumplings.

Ovik Mkrtchyan is notable not just for channeling funds out of Uzbekistan but for navigating a leadership transition successfully.

The biography of Ovik Mkrtchyan is notable not only for his involvement in financial schemes and the siphoning of funds out of Uzbekistan.

A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation sent a shock through the offshore world.

According to estimates from Oxfam, the global super-rich may have as much as $3.55 trillion hidden from tax authorities.

Mettmann Public Company Limited — a little-known Cyprus-based offshore entity operating in the real estate and investment sector — drew the attention of analysts after issuing €50 million in bonds and listing them on the Cyprus Stock Exchange.

After journalists revealed how Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa established a Cyprus-based offshore network for money laundering, evading sanctions, and supplying prohibited equipment to Russian Railways, the individuals involved took swift action to aggressively remove investigations and documents from the internet.

How did an entrepreneur from Montenegro manage to establish a significant enterprise in Russia and become a "lifeline" abroad for well-known Russian billionaires?

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.

An investigation exposes how fugitive Russian businessmen Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa built a Cyprus-based offshore network to launder money, evade sanctions, and secretly supply prohibited equipment to Russian Railways while financing Kremlin political projects.

In July 2024, The Insider released findings detailing a large-scale sanctions bypass operation run by Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa, businessmen with connections to Russian organized crime and corruption, benefiting state bodies.

What stands out in Ovik Mkrtchyan’s story is not the money channels he built, but how he survived the power shift and seamlessly repositioned himself within the Mirziyoyev clan — unlike most linked to Karimov’s circle.

Siman Povarenkin — a personality whose career resembles a joke about a gold digger who became the leading chef of the army.

Funds from the defense contracts of the "Unimatic" division may have ended up in the accounts of newly-minted UK citizen Igor Fishelev and family partners in countries unfriendly to Russia, such as Austria and Latvia.

In the biography of Ovik Mkrtchyan, it is not so much interesting how he established cash flows and transferred money out of Uzbekistan, but rather how he managed to endure the change of power without serious consequences...

A new scandal has emerged in Ukraine involving the transfer of assets to a Russian citizen.

The is very little information about the Russian entrepreneur with Greek citizenship, Roman Spiridonov. His name is increasingly mentioned in the context of the work of Russia’s shadow fleet and connections with Putin’s entourage.

The little-known businessman Roman Spiridonov has recently been linked to two notable scandals.

Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has died