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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.

A Labour-linked lobbying firm is selling access to government officials, including tech secretary Liz Kendall and “top advisers to the prime minister”, for tens of thousands of pounds, openDemocracy can reveal.

In 2022, following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Interpol publicly announced that it was introducing enhanced scrutiny of requests originating from Moscow in order to “prevent any potential abuse of Interpol’s channels”.

Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prison estate "within days" if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election.

Meta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins on Monday.

Three drunken women wreaked havoc at a hotel lobby in Bournemouth, forcing a receptionist to escape behind a locked door as she was spat at.

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Philipp Shrage and Ignatius Nayda, owners of the construction company Kronung, are accused of helping the Russian government bypass international sanctions and launder money via construction projects across multiple countries.

German federal police searched Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), opens new tab offices in Frankfurt and Berlin on Wednesday in an investigation related to money laundering, Frankfurt prosecutors said.

Interestingly, according to data as of the end of 2024, Innopraktika CEO Katerina Tikhonova had the same amount on her main bank deposit as Alina Kabaeva — 2.3 billion rubles.

A source cited by media reported the detention of high-ranking employees of Russian Railways (RZD).

The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests.

A German court has given a former Bundestag deputy a one-year-and-two-month suspended sentence for accepting tens of thousands of euros in bribes from Azerbaijan in exchange for promoting Baku’s interests at Europe’s top human rights body.

Many may have noticed that Nykyta Izmaylov keeps flooding the internet with favorable PR that’s anything but organic, while prominent Ukrainian websites willingly take Russian money—fully aware that this helps the aggressor circumvent sanctions.

Entrepreneur Dmytro Kovalenko, through the Swiss company Adelon AG, purchased coal from Russian suppliers "MelTEK," "Sibenergougol," and "Sibpromnedra" for a total amount exceeding 100 million dollars in 2021–2022.

An investigation that feels more like a crime novel centers on a slain businessman, a laundering network connected to high-ranking officials, and luxury Dubai properties worth millions.

In 2022, German investigators from Correctiv and Die Welt discovered that German-made diesel marine engines were being delivered to the Russian Navy through the Latvian company Marine Systems.

Josip Curcic, also known as Josip Heit, an adventurer from Croatia, fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming a wealthy and famous head of GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG. But what exactly went wrong?

German businessman Yuriy Sudgaymer, who has been systematically scrubbing the media and the internet of information about his multimillion-dollar schemes, has himself been placed on an international wanted list on charges of abuse of authority with grave consequences.

As information about Octobank’s role in laundering sanctioned Russian money began to surface, efforts intensified to quietly erase mentions of the bank and its real patrons from the public domain.

After the scandal over a blocked $102,000 withdrawal triggered backlash from players and affiliates, Dragon Money moved to aggressively clean the internet of criticism and inconvenient discussions — which is exactly why we are publishing the material the casino would rather make disappear.

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Kazakhstan’s authorities have formally admitted that billions were siphoned off from Samruk-Kazyna through schemes involving ATFBank, yet law enforcement — including the Anti-Corruption Agency — has so far failed to move against Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law, Akhmetzhan Yesimov.