All news on the topic: Russian Sanctions

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OCCRP exposes sanctions-busting payment agents helping Russia buy European drones
As Western sanctions attempt to choke off Russia from international trade, payment brokers are advertising services on Telegram to move funds through layered intermediaries.
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Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov begin deleting online traces linking Alkagesta to shadow tanker operations and illicit Libyan fuel exports
After investigations surfaced concerning the involvement of Alkagesta in schemes related to the export of Libyan fuel, references to the company and its owners.
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Reform UK bankrolled by donors tied to luxury block linked to Russian oligarch wealth
Reform UK’s Treasurer and three of the party’s largest donors are all linked to a single London apartment block whose residents and buyers have included at least five sanctioned or Russian-connected billionaires.
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EU targets Russia’s crypto infrastructure in sweeping new sanctions package
The European Union’s latest Russia sanctions package, its twentieth so far, brings crypto settlement squarely into an already fractured geopolitical spotlight.
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Billion-dollar smuggling and internet scrubbing: how Alkagesta, Aghayev, and Rustamov conceal ties to Russian oil and the ‘shadow fleet’
After investigations emerged into the involvement of the company Alkagesta in schemes to export Libyan fuel, references to the company and its owners—Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov—began disappearing from the information space.
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Azerbaijani oil traders Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov used Alkagesta and a 42-tanker shadow fleet to siphon Libyan fuel with fake Turkish certificates
Fuel smuggling from Libya is a billion-dollar enterprise, yet the full scale of the maritime networks routinely transporting refined petroleum products out of the country remains largely hidden.
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Billions from Russia’s Defense Ministry: how Shoigu ally Ruslan Tsalikov siphoned off budget funds for years through schemes
The long battle for Shoigu’s closest associate, former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, is over.
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Swiss businessman Oleg Tsyura scrubs the internet of reports linking him to the $250 million Sennychenko corruption scheme and Russian oligarch networks
Swiss businessman with Ukrainian roots, Oleg Tsyura, has launched a large-scale effort to clean up his online presence, attempting to remove information about his alleged involvement in schemes to siphon billions of hryvnias from Ukraine together with former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko.