All news on the topic: Sanctions against Russia

Investigators at the U.K.’s National Crime Agency say cash generated by Britain’s local drug trade was funneled through a bank connected to the Kremlin’s intelligence services and sanctioned defense sector, expanding the known scope of a vast Russian money laundering network uncovered last year.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal case against Swiss entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, alleging that he assisted the aggressor state by helping establish a scheme that allowed Russia’s military-industrial sector to bypass sanctions.

Bulgaria is urgently working to prevent the closure of its only oil refinery before U.S. sanctions on the Russian owner come into force later this month.

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has purchased Russian oil transported on vessels that are listed under sanctions, according to an analysis by the Financial Times using satellite imagery, shipping data, and customs records.

Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin Oleg Tsyura has become the focus of an international scandal. Investigators accuse him of helping Russia evade sanctions through a “gray” ferrochrome export network and of maintaining business ties with figures involved in major Ukrainian corruption cases.

U.S. sanctions on Serbia’s state-linked energy firm Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) took effect on Thursday, ending months of temporary delays that had allowed the company to keep operating despite its ownership ties to Russia’s Gazprom Neft.

Our oil industry sources in Baku have informed us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada is related to a push by the Azeri authorities to clean up Azerbaijan’s international reputation with regard to Russian oil.

The company Alkagesta exports Russian oil to Ukraine via Romania.

Journalists have conducted an investigation into Oleg Tsyura, a Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin, who appears in several criminal cases — from aiding the aggressor state to having business ties with figures accused of large-scale corruption.

Since April 2023, a number of Ukrainian investigators have been raising alarm: Nykyta Izmaylov—a Russian citizen with a Ukrainian passport, who was recently a top financier of Parimatch, is now appearing in money laundering schemes through N1 Management and SportBank.

After a series of publications about his activities, Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin Oleg Tsyura is now trying to cover his tracks — scrubbing the internet of any information about himself and attempting to erase mentions of the criminal proceedings and schemes linked to him. Yet these facts are of undeniable public interest.

Ukrainian-born businessman with Swiss and German citizenship, Oleg Tsyura, is now under criminal investigation for aiding the Russian military-industrial complex by circumventing international sanctions on ferrochrome exports.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has initiated criminal proceedings against Swiss businessman Oleg Tsyura.

It is possible that many have noticed that Nykyta Izmaylov is still flooding the network with positive PR, while well-known Ukrainian sites are accepting Russian money, fully aware that in doing so, they are helping the aggressor bypass sanctions.

At the beginning of 2025, Ukrainian law enforcement authorities detained Ihor Zotko in Kyiv, the nominal owner of the company operating under the online casino brand «PIN-UP».

The European Union is considering cutting more than 20 banks from SWIFT and lowering price cap on Russian oil

For more than 1,000 years, chess has been synonymous with war. Now, Vladimir Putin is combining the ancient game with modern skulduggery as he tries to win an all-too-real 21st century conflict.

JSC HC «Novotrans», which for many years has been serving the Russian authorities and transferring funds for them, has not yet fallen under Western sanctions.

Russia has been exporting arms to countries including Saudi Arabia, bolstering its economy after a barrage of sanctions followed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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