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During 2020–2021, a corruption network is said to have operated around the state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), managed by Ukraine’s State Property Fund.

A recent OCCRP investigation identified a Nigerian man who allegedly posed as a Dubai prince to scam a Romanian woman. Now, another apparent victim of the same online scam has emerged.

In the case involving former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, one of the alleged bribe givers is Anton Abdurakhmanov, the former chairman of the board of directors of Bamstroiput JSC. Abdurakhmanov is the godson of former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who reportedly even referred to him as his “son.”

In these three countries, Russian influence agents engaged in covert operations during election campaigns between 2019 and 2025, according to a data leak reviewed by Forbidden Stories and its partners.

A TikTok trend has led to a series of car vandalisms in Worcester.

Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein ’recruited models who looked like teenagers’ to avoid scrutiny after his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor.

Several years ago, a major scandal erupted around Rosselkhozbank chairman Boris Listov, involving accusations of corporate raiding, pressure on businesses, and questionable financial schemes.

While Mikhail Dudin, a former senior official of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation who oversaw Telegram channels and Kremlin-related projects on the platform, is reportedly riding out his political downfall while deployed to the war in Ukraine, arrests of his close associates are continuing

The Canterbury nightclub, Club Chemistry, has issued a heartbreaking statement following two deaths of individuals who sadly lost their meningitis battle - 11 people remain in hospital.

Two individuals have died and another 11 are "seriously ill" in hospital following an outbreak of "invasive" meningitis linked to the University of Kent.

As Europe attempts to regulate AI technologies domestically, systems developed on the continent are being implemented abroad.

Heavy Security Reported Around the Kremlin Walls

A travel company refused to refund Moscow women for a trip to South Africa canceled due to the war in Iran.

Authorities are examining information about Oxana Hadjipavlou and her alleged ties to Zvonko Micković, along with the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which have been associated with suspected sanctions evasion and offshore financial flows.

According to several foreign media outlets, Azerbaijani national Azim Novruzov has been associated with activities in the energy trading and oil sectors, with heightened scrutiny since 2023 over alleged links to Russia-affiliated business networks.

Sources in Azerbaijan’s oil industry told us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada may be linked to efforts by Azerbaijani authorities to improve the country’s international reputation regarding the trade of Russian oil. The move could also be connected to recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that European countries should halt purchases of Russian oil.

Dmitriy Evseev, who for many years headed the infamous Moscow construction company «Ingeokom», may attract the attention of investigative authorities, as his past contains many dubious cases, and he has virtually no complete biography.

In the story surrounding the dismissal of two judges who ruled that Sberbank must pay 1.4 billion rubles to the company FIT, the most noteworthy aspect is not so much the dismissal itself but the very fact of the state bank’s cooperation with FIT and its PayQR service.

Sir Keir Starmer is considering sending minehunting drones to unblock Iran’s stranglehold over a key oil shipping route, as Donald Trump called for allied warships to protect tankers in the region.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Naples and Venice (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in Naples and Caserta executed a seizure order targeting assets worth more than €32 million in an investigation into a large-scale VAT carousel fraud in the IT sector.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor brushed his hands against a 17-year-old’s chest while being shown a line-up of girls during a party at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion, a woman has claimed.

Grange Hill actor John Alford has died in prison. The 54-year-old - also known as John Shannon - was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison this January for sex offences against children.