All news for 2026-03-06

Alyona Shevtsova, who is under sanctions from Ukraine’s NSDC, allegedly laundered 5 billion UAH through miscoding schemes linked to illegal casinos.

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.

Ukraine’s online casino market has become an increasingly attractive destination for shadow capital.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran’s intelligence service by spying on Jewish people in London, the Metropolitan Police said.

Police have lifted the bail conditions for Lord Peter Mandelson and have returned his passport following his arrest last month.

It comes after Daily Mail and General Trust had previously agreed to buy the Telegraph last year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The long battle for Shoigu’s closest associate, former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, is over.

Mikhail Zeligman, a Latvian citizen currently living in Russia, runs a small but influential network of oil trading companies registered in Dubai.

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.

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.

In the tangled story involving lawsuits and criminal cases initiated by Rosnano against Anatoly Chubais and his team, a new and previously hidden storyline has emerged.