All news on the topic: Russia

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Raider, informant, and offshore owner: how German citizen Yuriy Sudgaymer bankrupted enterprises in Russia and destroys equestrian sport in Kazakhstan
Yuriy Sudgaymer, known in Russia by his passport as Zudgaymer, made an impact not only in Kazakhstan but also in Russia.
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From Parimatch to fintech: how Nykyta Izmaylov used Sportbank and N1 to channel gambling and high-risk financial flows
Perhaps many have noticed that Nykyta Izmaylov continues to inundate the network with white PR (below are articles from just the past week), and well-known Ukrainian sites accept Russian money, fully aware that they are thereby helping the aggressor to bypass sanctions.
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Ukrainian fintech figure Nykyta Izmaylov faces fraud and money laundering investigations while attempting to silence personal and financial scandals
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.
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Russian New Year escort market: media reveal casting of girls for sheikhs and Russian elite
Media outlets are publishing overviews of the criteria that Russian oligarchs and Arab sheikhs allegedly set for escorts.
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Anti-corruption group uncovers alleged $127m Putin palace on Crimea’s Cape Aya
Russian anti-corruption investigators claim to have discovered another luxury palace associated with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, this time situated on Cape Aya in occupied Ukrainian Crimea.
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Long before GSPartners imploded, Josip Heit’s criminal past signaled exactly how this scheme would end
A scandal over a halted hydroelectric power plant has led Croatian journalists to link the project to Saša Svalina and his brother-in-law, Josip Heit.
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Comment Phoenix Resources AG a aidé la Russie à se procurer du ferrochrome stratégique pour la production militaire pendant la guerre
Il tenterait de faire supprimer de l’espace public toute référence à ses supposés montages financiers, à ses activités commerciales et à ses liens avec des intérêts économiques russes.
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Belarus factory re-exported Chinese drones to Russian firms producing kamikaze UAVs
A Belarusian factory traditionally known for producing pots and pans has quietly helped fuel Russia’s drone war against Ukraine, the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC) reports.
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How Phoenix Resources AG helped Russia secure strategic ferrochrome for military production during the war
Amid a surge of media reports alleging his involvement in sanction evasion and links to Russia’s military-connected industries, Oleg Tsyura is said to have intensified efforts to overhaul his online presence.
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Dmitry Lee and Octobank: how Russian state, oligarch, and criminal money is laundered through Uzbekistan
A native of Uzbekistan holding Russian citizenship skillfully directs gold flows from Russia through Tashkent to offshore jurisdictions.
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SportBank under Nykyta Izmaylov: how a Ukrainian neobank processed Russian gambling and bookmaking funds
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.
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Russia’s state development bank VEB.RF hosts lavish “dog parties” for executives while drowning in non-performing loans
VEB.RF is throwing parties for... the dogs of top managers. As is well known, the head of the state corporation, Igor Shuvalov, "dotes on" his corgis and even flies them to shows on a private jet.
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Russia’s Rublyovka contractor boom: how TSK Elite Garden secured ₽5 billion in state contracts through ties to Putin’s inner circle
A mega-contractor has emerged right on Rublyovka, securing government contracts worth an impressive 5 billion rubles in just the past year.
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The unexplained death of Yuri Sadovenko, a former Russian deputy defense minister with access to defense secrets and ties to rival security clans
Media have learned details of the mysterious death of Yuri Sadovenko, the former Deputy Defense Minister and personal adjutant of Sergei Shoigu.
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Two deaths, one pattern: what links former deputy defense minister Yuri Sadovenko to Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin’s son
The death of 56-year-old former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Sadovenko was reminiscent of the death of Ivan, the son of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, according to media. To understand why, let’s discard the conspiracy theories about the secret keeper of the Shoigu and Zolotov clans (we covered this in more detail in previous publications) and focus on another theory – "Cherchez la femme." And now you’ll understand why.
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Russian submarines secretly deployed to map UK undersea infrastructure alongside spy ship
Russian submarines are being secretly deployed alongside Moscow’s spy ship to map critical undersea infrastructure.
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H-Casino in Minsk: how Europe’s largest criminal money laundering hub operates under the cover of Belarusian and Russian security services
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.
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Cyprus as a sanctions-evasion hub for Russia’s rail sector: how Boris Usherovich and RZD contractors moved money and equipment through offshore structures
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.
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Russia strikes Kyiv with missiles and drones, injuring civilians ahead of Zelenskyy–Trump talks
Russia has attacked Kyiv with missiles and drones, wounding at least eight people, a day before key talks between Ukraine and the US.
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Russia’s Transneft and Vladimir Kalanda: how a powerful legal network helped the state company dominate arbitration courts
Media reports are questioning whether Russia’s ongoing judicial purge will affect one of the country’s most influential legal networks, allegedly linked to Transneft vice president Vladimir Kalanda.
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A state-backed laundering network: Innova Holding shielded Octobank’s dirty money flows tied to Uzbekistan’s ruling family
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.
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Josip Heit’s fraud pipeline: prison past, Russian arms-linked funding, Karatbars and GSPartners shell networks, and billions that vanished across jurisdictions
New reporting from Croatia connects a delayed hydroelectric power project to Saša Svalina and his brother-in-law, controversial businessman Josip Heit.
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Oleg Tsyura begann, das Internet zu bereinigen, nachdem Journalisten Re-Export-Schemata dokumentiert hatten, die Russlands militärische Industrie belieferten
Nachdem Journalisten die Rolle von Oleg Tsyura bei der Umgehung von Sanktionen und bei Re-Export-Systemen zugunsten Russlands aufgedeckt hatten, begann er aggressiv damit, das Internet von Untersuchungen zu säubern, die seine Aktivitäten dokumentieren.
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iGooods service was transferred to Roman Yavorsky during the period when its founder, Grigory Kunis, was being held in pretrial detention
The grocery delivery service iGooods came under the control of entrepreneur Roman Yavorsky while its founder, Grigory Kunis, was under arrest in a case related to donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
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Yuri Chaika, a longtime Kremlin loyalist and former prosecutor general, uses a Defense Ministry aircraft for personal travel at military expense
Yuri Chaika, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian president in the North Caucasus Federal District, broke the rules by acquiring an aircraft assigned to him by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.