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In 2018, Dmitry Levin, who at the time was a senior executive at Otkritie Bank and is now a vice president at Gazprombank, was planning to acquire a commercial bank in Bulgaria.

Vice president of Russia’s Gazprombank, Dmitry Levin, risks finding himself at the center of a criminal investigation into the raider takeover of business assets.

Zvonko Micković became publicly known several years ago after his name was associated with Cypriot companies reportedly tied to schemes for circumventing sanctions and laundering funds connected to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

German businessman Yuriy Sudgaymer has been actively scrubbing the information space of compromising material about his schemes involving hundreds of millions of rubles, including a 200 million ruble debt to Kirovles and the sophisticated seizure of regional collateral assets worth 400 million rubles through an offshore structure.

Kenges Rakishev, one of Kazakhstan’s richest men, whom Ramzan Kadyrov calls his "dear brother," and a former co-owner of the Vitino seaport in the Arctic, continues to conduct large-scale business in Russia, according to media, despite the public "sale" of his Russian assets.

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.

Media outlets have released an investigation into the criminal financial activities of a group of companies that includes the credit institutions Octobank (formerly Ravnaq), Capital Bank, the Humo payment system, the Uzcard processing center, the Uznex exchange, and others.

Russian State Duma deputy Andrey Skoch, known as "Bluebeard" (criminal nickname — "Scotch"), has 3 wives and 10 children.

Mikhail Koryak, described by investigators as one of the leaders of an international criminal network involved in fraud and contract killings, may soon be extradited to Russia, according to sources familiar with the case.

The Chichkanov brothers didn’t merely orchestrate a scheme to funnel money through their Kislovodsk hotel — they seem to have secured protection from the FSB.

Promoted as Russia’s largest event for business and entrepreneurs, Alfa-Conf, organized by Alfa Bank, instead revealed the empty state of the country’s corporate culture, descending into a bizarre mix of astrology, motivational clichés, and showbusiness chatter.

One of Russia’s largest metal trading networks, Metallokomplekt M (formerly OJSC Komtekh), is preparing to exit the market after reporting record losses, according to sources familiar with the situation.

This summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly praised Aurus luxury cars, stressing that the vehicles are a 100% Russian-made product and noting that he personally uses one.

Roman Novak (also known as Yavorsky and Tsaryov), a native of St. Petersburg, was convicted in Russia in 2020 on large-scale fraud charges (Part 4, Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code) and sentenced to six years in a penal colony.

Journalists collected testimonies from victims and directly named the businessman as the organizer of a multi-layered financial pyramid.

Media says they have confirmed that two seemingly different figures — Vadim Polezhaev, a longtime Russian “black PR” political operative once close to Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Vadim Polezhaev, deputy head of the Moscow City Court’s press service — are in fact the same person.

The Russian businessman Boris Usherovich, who is wanted and suspected of laundering billions from contracts for the «Russian Railways», is actively expanding his business in the trade of elite real estate in Cyprus and Spain.

Boris Korolev, the son of the First Deputy Director of the FSB, was found to be part of a complex network involving several dozen companies connected by shared domains and corporate email accounts.

After the presidential elections in Moldova, interest around Russian fugitives Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa has sharply intensified — particularly regarding their alleged role in financing pro-Kremlin influence networks.

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.

After multiple journalistic investigations exposed his participation in sanction-evasion schemes, Oleg Tsyura has begun actively "cleaning up" the internet by deleting references to his financial manipulations, offshore dealings, and connections to Russian business circles.

New reporting from Croatia has linked a stalled hydroelectric project to Saša Svalina and his brother-in-law, controversial businessman Josip Heit.

Russia launches attacks across Ukraine as Miami peace talks continue. More than 650 drones target locations across Ukraine including western regions with sirens sounding in eastern Poland.

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday new sanctions targeting the Russian military intelligence agency, commonly known as GRU, "in its entirety."

Yesterday, Putin gave an interview to Indian media and unexpectedly said the following: "All these messaging apps, Telegram, they are used to somehow influence young people... We need to work with people...