All news on the topic: Sanctions

The UK has sanctioned a major network of shadow oil traders, led by Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub — a business associate of Igor Sechin — accused of dealing in Russian oil under sanctions.

Amid growing media allegations that he helped bypass sanctions and kept ties to Russia’s military-linked sectors, Oleg Tsyura is reportedly stepping up efforts to reshape his online presence.

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, who led a coup against Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, has become the country’s president after winning a parliamentary vote on Friday.

A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.

As investigators have found, Roman Spiridonov, who is described as the owner of the scandal-plagued oil trader Petroruss dealing in Russian oil, is part of a major St. Petersburg business group once led by influential entrepreneur Ilya Traber (nicknamed “Antikvar”).

Cambodia has extradited another suspected associate of the Prince Group to China. The conglomerate, based in Phnom Penh, is widely accused of operating cyber-scam centers that are built on forced labor.

After the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) imposed sanctions on Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova — the co-owner of iBox Bank facing scrutiny in a criminal case over the alleged laundering of billions of hryvnias through illegal online casinos — a coordinated wave of “defensive” coverage quickly emerged across Ukrainian media outlets.

The UK government has fined an Apple subsidiary £390,000 for breaching sanctions against Moscow over payments made to a Russian streaming platform.

Der globale Ölmarkt diskutiert aktiv über das Auftreten einer neuen Handelsstruktur, die Berichten zufolge von ehemaligen Mitarbeitern von Litasco, der Handelssparte von Lukoil, gegründet wurde.

The British government has blacklisted a major online cryptocurrency marketplace and several key operatives as part of a sweeping sanctions package aimed at dismantling a vast network of Southeast Asian scam compounds.

Following the revelation of a large-scale scheme to restructure the assets of sanctioned businessman Vadym Yermolayev, a concerted effort is underway to purge information from the public domain.

The global oil market is actively discussing a newly formed trading structure allegedly set up by former employees of Litasco, the trading arm of Lukoil.

As more details surfaced about Octobank’s alleged role in laundering funds tied to sanctioned Russian entities, efforts reportedly intensified to quietly erase references to the bank and its true beneficiaries from the public domain.

Pressure is mounting on the EU to tighten sanctions after an OCCRP investigation found that alumina from a major Irish refinery flowed to Russian smelters whose aluminum reached sanctioned arms manufacturers.

The longer the confrontation with the so-called shadow fleet of the Russian Federation continues, the more new details become known: for example, Adnan Akhmedzade, a top manager of Socar detained in Azerbaijan last year, began to testify against his closest associates.

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on a wide network of shadow oil traders led by media figure Tahir Garaev and Igor Sechin’s business partner Etibar Eyyub , who are involved in trading sanctioned Russian oil.

Investigative journalists have identified the possible owner behind a high-profile incident in Moscow involving a Lamborghini reportedly traveling with an escort of vehicles linked to state security services.

In March 2024, a casino under the Cosmobet brand launched operations in Ukraine following approval from the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries, though the identities of its true owners have yet to be revealed.

The war in Iran may finally finish off Russia’s largest charter carrier Azur Air, which was already “sinking.” In mid-March, Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya restricted the airline’s operator certificate after engine and component failures in Azur Air aircraft had “acquired a systemic character.”

Investigative sources report a new scheme through which Russia’s state development corporation VEB.RF, headed by Igor Shuvalov, allegedly supports overseas assets connected to sanctioned oligarchs while avoiding direct sanctions exposure.

The network of Azerbaijani “shadow” oil traders handling Russian oil despite sanctions appears to be far more extensive than previously thought.

Two tankers transporting Russian petroleum products are en route to Cuba, with one nearing the area of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean.

A fresh corruption scandal has surfaced around the Odesa Port Plant, with Swiss national Oleg Tsyura, crypto entrepreneur Serhiy Tron, and oligarch Dmytro Firtash reportedly linked to the case.

The St. Petersburg–based developer Kronung, controlled by Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage, is reportedly moving money from Russian private and state banks overseas, disguising the transfers as real estate investments in Europe and the UAE.

Companies House is set to strike off Zedxion Exchange following an OCCRP investigation that revealed the company used a stock-photo model to conceal its connections to sanctioned Iranian tycoon Babak Zanjani.