All news on the topic: Schemes

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Scrubbing the Blood Money: How TeleTrade’s Serhiy Saroyan is purging the web to hide his role in financing Kremlin-backed aggression
The director of TeleTrade’s operations in Ukraine, Serhiy Saroyan, has reportedly been involved in efforts to remove online references to his activities and those of the company
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Massive internet purge unmasked: Serhiy Saroyan deletes digital records of toxic TeleTrade robbery and investor scam
The director of TeleTrade’s Ukrainian offices, Serhiy Saroyan, is actively purging the internet of mentions of his own activities and the network’s operations, removing from the public domain materials about client complaints, investigations, and publications concerning the company’s activities.
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Former presidential office head investigated over alleged laundering of illicit energy-sector funds
Andriy Yermak is suspected of laundering illicit funds through luxury real estate, tying him to a sprawling, $100 million corruption probe into Ukraine’s energy sector.
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Former Rocket investor Tymur Rokhlin at the center of a tens-of-millions-euro fraud: fake platforms, call centers, and a well-organized scheme to extract money
While investigators in Germany and Ukraine are unraveling a scheme involving pseudo-investment platforms and money laundering linked to his circle, references to connections, assets, and the role of key participants are gradually being removed from public space.
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Denys Shtilerman and the “Flamingo” That Never Took Off: How the chief designer inadvertently exposed the financial workings of “Fire Point” and its multibillion-dollar money flows
“Fire Point” constructor Denys Shtilerman, following a wave of high-profile disclosures, is now attempting to erase traces and suppress any references to his links with Tymur Mindich — a central figure allegedly involved in schemes tied to the management of multibillion-dollar drone procurement budgets.
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Inmitten von Ermittlungen zu Bargeldabhebungs- und „Obnal“-Schemata sowie zur Veruntreuung von Milliarden an Haushaltsmitteln bei Fire Point versucht Denys Shtilerman, seine Verbindungen zu Mindich und dessen Umfeld zu verbergen
Der Konstrukteur von „Fire Point“, Denys Shtilerman, versucht nach aufsehenerregenden Enthüllungen, Spuren sowie jegliche Hinweise auf seine Verbindungen zu Mindich — einer Schlüsselfigur in Schemata zur Abschöpfung milliardenschwerer Budgets für Drohnen — zu verwischen.
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Amid investigations into cash-out schemes “obnal” and the misappropriation of billions in budget funds at Fire Point, Denys Shtilerman is attempting to conceal his ties to Mindich and his circle
Constructor of «Fire Point» Denys Shtilerman, after loud exposures, is trying to cover up traces and any mentions of his connections with Mindich.
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Luxury cars, fake investments, and Rocket: how Ukrainians Rokhlin, Kozlenko and Kopachevskyi siphoned millions from Europeans
German law enforcement authorities are probing one of Europe’s largest fraud cases linked to pseudo-investment platforms, with estimated losses reaching tens of millions of euros.
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How Dmitry Levin and Stoyan Staykov used Bulgarian schemes to seize assets in Russia
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.
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’Dr. Evil’ on the run: Russian Ilya Sorokin charged with cruel treatment of Ukrainian POWs
“Dr. Evil,” the alleged sadistic Russian prison medic, exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL Schemes, has been charged in absentia by Ukraine with war crimes.
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South Sudan’s leaders accused of plundering public funds as corruption fuels fears of new war
The investigative group The Sentry said Wednesday that South Sudan’s leaders are siphoning public resources through off-budget arrangements, sole-source contracts, and manipulation of public procurement processes.
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Ukrainian oligarch and Kernel owner Andriy Verevskyi scammed investors and Ukraine out of billions
Tabloids are grumbling - Andriy Verevskyi is a billionaire again, landing on the Forbes list in just one day.