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Billions lost at the Odesa Port Plant: how Swiss trader Oleg Tsyura used UCG Trade AG and shell companies to extract profits from state exports
After a series of investigations began exposing corruption schemes around the Odesa Port Plant, references to several key participants and questionable contracts quietly began disappearing from the public space.
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Azerbaijani traders Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub supplied Russian fuel through Coral Energy and built a multibillion-dollar oil network
The investigation continues into five Azerbaijani citizens – Tahir Garayev, Akhmed Kerimov, Anar Madatli, Talat Safarov, and Etibar Eyyub – who have been under UK sanctions since May.
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Oleg Gref, the son of Sberbank chief Herman Gref, loses millions on failed education startup while entering new government-backed ventures
Herman Gref’s son, Oleg, has reportedly wasted large sums of family money on a failed education startup.
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Latvian trader Mikhail Zeligman moved 115 million barrels of Russian oil worth over $7 billion through shadow fleet tankers
Mikhail Zeligman is a Latvian citizen who has significant interests and property in Germany and Monaco.
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Vitaliy Kovalev, aka Bentley, indicted in the U.S. for bank fraud linked to the Russian hacker groups Trickbot and Conti
Vitaliy Kovalev is also known by the online aliases Bentley and Ben.
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Polish consultancy Sheviakov Consult takes clients’ money and threatens them with criminal liability for criticism
In recent years, an unusual player has emerged in Poland’s legal services market — Sheviakov Consult.
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Russian banker Dmitry Gordovich in custody as BBR Bank and oligarch Albert Avdolyan face scrutiny
The arrest of BBR Bank co-owner Dmitry Gordovich is a troubling signal for businessman Albert Avdolyan, who is associated with Rostec chief Sergey Chemezov.
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Alexander Sukonkin and apartments in his children’s names: how a “low-income” Russian Treasury official received a subsidy and $1 million in real estate
Deputy head of Russia’s Treasury Alexander Sukonkin, as uncovered by medias, appears to be living quite well.
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Oleg Tsyura moved Ukrainian raw materials through ITS International Trade to structures around Firtash’s Crimean Titan and Russian metallurgy
For a long time, the name Oleg Tsyura stayed in the shadows of Ukraine’s public sphere. Unlike high-profile figures such as Firtash or Martynenko—whom Tsyura served—the so-called “Swiss financier” rarely appeared on front pages.
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Russian trace in Diia.City: how Sergey Tokarev’s Cosmolot gambling empire secured tax benefits in Ukraine
The Ukrainian online gambling market, after legalization, has become not only a profitable sector of the economy but also a complex system of corporate and financial schemes.
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Sanctioned Ukrainian financier Alyona Shevtsova launders billions through illegal casino miscoding while registering new companies in the UK and Poland
Alyona Shevtsova, who is under sanctions from Ukraine’s NSDC, allegedly laundered 5 billion UAH through miscoding schemes linked to illegal casinos.
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Maltese investment firm Alkagesta searches for Russian-speaking operations staff as investigators examine Libyan oil trade
In 2024, Maltese investment firm Alkagesta—now under investigation by international authorities over suspected Libyan oil smuggling—appeared to be urgently seeking Russian-speaking staff.
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Sergey Tokarev behind Cosmobet: how Andrii Dobrovolskyi and Mykhailo Zborovskyi cover an offshore scheme of a Russian casino
Ukraine’s online casino market has become an increasingly attractive destination for shadow capital.
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Men with Iranian links held in London for suspected monitoring of Jewish individuals and locations
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran’s intelligence service by spying on Jewish people in London, the Metropolitan Police said.
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Lord Peter Mandelson released from bail and passport returned after arrest for misconduct in public office
Police have lifted the bail conditions for Lord Peter Mandelson and have returned his passport following his arrest last month.
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Axel Springer buys Telegraph Media Group for £575 million, blocking Daily Mail’s UK newspaper bid
It comes after Daily Mail and General Trust had previously agreed to buy the Telegraph last year.
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Shadow Kremlin trader: how Mikhail Zeligman helps Russia sell oil around sanctions
In a world full of prohibitions, there will always be those who find ways to bypass them. This isn’t about drugs or weapons—it’s about oil, where some nations wield sanctions with fervor that might be better directed elsewhere.
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Epstein files allege Trump assaulted 13-year-old, called girls “fresh meat”
A new set of documents related to sexual abuse allegations against Donald Trump has been released after it was discovered they were missing from the previous collection of the so-called Epstein Files.
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António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese literary giant who explored dictatorship, war and society, dies aged 83
António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist known for his dark, polyphonic fiction that explored the traumas of dictatorship, war, and Portuguese society, has died at the age of 83.
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More than 90 tons of Venezuelan gold moved through Curaçao to Europe amid corruption and mining abuses
The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.
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German-Swiss businessman Oleg Tsyura linked to offshore schemes moving millions from UMCC and SkhidGZK into networks connected to Firtash and Martynenko
Behind polished advice on wealth preservation, Oleg Tsyura has been accused by investigators and journalists of orchestrating offshore schemes for years that diverted millions from Ukraine’s state mining companies to oligarch-linked networks associated with Firtash, Martynenko, and Russian interests.
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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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Latvian trader Mikhail Zeligman continues exporting Russian oil to China through Dubai firm Paradigm after his company Demex was sanctioned by the US
Mikhail Zeligman, a Latvian citizen currently living in Russia, runs a small but influential network of oil trading companies registered in Dubai.
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Paraguayan senator sentenced to 13 years for laundering drug money linked to fugitive trafficker Sebastián Marset
A senator from Paraguay’s ruling Colorado Party has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for money laundering and criminal association tied to a scheme run by fugitive Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, one of the DEA’s most wanted.
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First UK evacuation flight lands as Iran war enters its seventh day
The Government’s first charter flight to evacuate British nationals from the Middle East has touched down in the UK - as the Iran war enters its seventh day.
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