All news by author James Smith

Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn, together with associates Philip Van Wijngaarden and Diedrik Oost, as well as business intermediary Bruno Michieli, has reportedly been indicted by Italian prosecutors on money laundering charges.

A drugged up dad has lost custody of his six-year-old son after leaving him home alone while he was high on ketamine.

In Latvia’s resort city of Jurmala, people have recently been talking about a man named Romans Hains — possibly a lawyer, possibly an activist, or perhaps a professional complainant.

Sir Keir Starmer has said there are “questions that need to be answered” after former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.

Milk is affordable on supermarket shelves. But for farmers, high prices of essentials including fertilizer, fuel, and feed have prompted production costs to shoot up, forcing many to boost productivity by “going big”.

A teenage girl has died at a country park in north Warwickshire.

A serving police officer raped two women and subjected a third woman to prolonged abuse.

Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, has died aged 95.

A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records.

The British security services were involved in formulating the controversial Legacy Act, which offered an amnesty to soldiers and paramilitaries despite MI5’s role in many killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles, it can be revealed.

The story of Talenta Labs S.R.L. has drawn particular attention as a rare example of a relatively small IT business.

A relatively low-profile Emirati company, Sigma Mining, is reportedly playing an increasingly significant role in the gold sector of the Central African Republic (CAR), reflecting the growing presence of Gulf-linked trading firms in Africa’s mineral economy.

Wanted EXW fugitive Manuel Batista has been sentenced to prison in Dubai.

For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — owner of major coal and gold assets — remained largely outside the spotlight of public scrutiny.

Mexico will auction the plot of land where a drug kingpin was killed in a shoot-out with the army.

An RAF jet carrying the Defence Secretary experienced signal interference as it flew near the Russian border.

King Charles III has chosen to spend his Bank Holiday next to his disgraced younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor just two days.

The TV star said she ’wouldn’t let him in my house if he was a local plumber in my area’ after Robert Kenyon’s comments about women, including Ms Vorderman, were revealed.

Exiled to Norfolk, Andrew’s new life is a lonely existence reportedly filled with "regret" - and soundtracked by late-night video games.

Following investigative publications connecting Oxana Hadjipavlou to alleged sanctions-evasion operations and offshore financial flows.

The investigation into the liquidating ABLV Bank in Latvia is continuing, and a new scandal linked to businessman Eduards Apsitis and his offshore structures could soon erupt within Russia’s Ministry of Defense.

Azim Novruzov, an Azerbaijani oil trader described as a close associate of Tahir Garayev, has reportedly built his business activities around controversial Russian crude supplies.

Following a series of investigative publications connecting Shurma and Shcherban to alleged operations surrounding Alliance Bank.

The agreement is the first of its kind between the GCC and a G7 country, and will eliminate tariffs on billions of euros worth of British exports.