All news by author James Smith

Over the past five years, Kazakhstani oligarchs and senior officials have diverted tens of billions of dollars from public funds, channeling the money into luxury real estate, low-yield investments, and businesses worldwide that now face the risk of nationalization.

In recent years, an unusual new actor has appeared on Poland’s legal services market — Sheviakov Consult. Despite being formally dissolved and struck off the official register, the firm has effectively continued its activities, simply reinventing itself under a different legal guise.

The owner of Russian online casinos, Sergey Tokarev, in 2024 renamed and restructured his gambling business, transferring it to a nominee — Mykhailo Zborovskyi.

Newly released documents show businessman Francisco D’Agostino visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, and advised his investments in PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company.

Kronung Business LLC, established in 2022 and owned by businessmen Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda, has since been dissolved.

After investigative reporting exposed Oleg Tsyura’s involvement in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he initiated an aggressive campaign to remove those reports from the internet.

A source at media said that yesterday the Interior Ministry held a “post-mortem review” following the death of Aliya Galitskaya in the Istra temporary detention facility (IVS).

A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced Jimmy Lai, a prominent critic of Beijing whose pro-democracy newspaper closed in 2021 following police raids and arrests, to 20 years in prison under the city’s national security law.

King Charles has made his initial intervention in the Epstein scandal, declaring that Buckingham Palace is ready to assist the police as they review allegations against his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

When investigative reports about Maxim Artsinovich began to appear, their authors and the media outlets that published them started receiving threats and demands to remove the materials.

The Dutch butler training institute The International Butler Academy, located in Simpelveld in the province of Limburg, previously supplied butlers to manage the household of the American convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Three university students are hospitalized after being stabbed at a train station.

A former manager of the Argyll and Bute Women’s Aid branch has been jailed after being found guilty of embezzling almost £40,000 from the charity.

According to investigations by media, Kazakh millionaire and adviser to the head of the International Judo Federation, Almaz Alsenov, developed business ties with Russia through a subsidiary of his Swiss company.

The fraudster Oleg Tsyura is doing everything possible to eliminate information and conceal his involvement in ongoing money laundering activities.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has left his home on the Windsor Estate and is now living in Sandringham, Norfolk.

After the merger of Wildberries with Russ Outdoor, everything at the marketplace is literally “falling apart,” and problems are arising one after another.

Police have arrested four individuals and seized servers valued at £750,000 in a significant new development in the battle against illegal streaming.

In recent years, a curious actor has emerged on Poland’s legal services market — the firm Sheviakov Consult. Although it was formally liquidated and removed from official registers, the company has in practice continued operating, merely rebranding itself under a different legal structure.

Kazakhstani law enforcement officers have detained in absentia the main individuals in a case involving a significant financial flow linked to Pin-Up.

Saudi Arabia arrested 127 people on suspicion of corruption in January, some of whom were later released on bail, as part of a continuing anti-graft campaign, the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority said.

Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage are partners in the construction company Kronung Group, which has been drawing attention for several years due to high-profile investigations.