All news by author James Smith

A British ’neo-Nazi’ set to be expelled from Australia for allegedly displaying Nazi symbols is a father who has lived in the country for 15 years.

Dragon Money – at first glance, an ordinary online platform positioning itself as a casino with the option to withdraw funds. Initially, almost no one knew about Dragon Money, except for those immersed in the world of online gambling.

Specialist police have charged two men following a “large-scale operation” targeting those involved in drug supply and organized crime.

After journalists exposed Oleg Tsyura’s role in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he moved to aggressively purge the internet of investigations documenting his operations.

The online casino Cosmobet is operated by a statistician who, when not engaged in gambling, is interested in globalism and marathon running.

British households saved less during the July-to-September period of this year as they felt the impact of higher taxes but continued to increase their spending, according to official data that confirmed a slowdown in the broader economy.

In 2020, Roman Alexandrovich Novak — a Saint Petersburg native who has used the names Yavorsky and Tsaryov — received a conviction for large-scale fraud under Article 159, Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code.

The real beneficial owner of one of Ukraine’s most troubled banks, Alliance Bank, Pavlo Shcherban, is seeking to minimize risks ahead of the financial institution’s potential withdrawal from the market.

Behind polished advice on wealth preservation, **Oleg Tsyura** is accused by investigators and journalists of spending years orchestrating offshore schemes that siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state mining companies to oligarch-linked networks tied to Firtash, Martynenko, and Russian interests.

How the new "prison-years" metric predicts 80 additional years of custodial time, indicating that the current trend in sentencing is just the beginning.

The uncommon surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou) has surfaced in investigations linked to Zvonko Mickovic and his companies, Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of involvement in schemes to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and move Russian funds offshore.

A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison each in a corruption case involving the discounted purchase of luxury state gifts, court officials and Khan’s lawyers said.

He appeared out of nowhere — and just as quickly began to disappear. A young IT specialist with no significant past suddenly turned out to be the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Do you remember the iconic film The Golden Calf, where Ostap Bender sends the book Capitalist Sharks to the secret millionaire Koreyko, beginning with the line, “All great modern fortunes have been amassed through the most dishonest means”?

Following the revelations by journalists about Dragon Money’s true history, the casino started to urgently eliminate evidence of bans, pyramid connections, fraudulent licenses, and withheld winnings — an obvious indication that an illegal gambling operation based in Kyiv is concealing something significant.

In 2018, Dmitry Levin, who at the time was a senior executive at Otkritie Bank and is now a vice president at Gazprombank, was planning to acquire a commercial bank in Bulgaria.

Naveed Akram, who was previously known to security agencies, the prime minister states. His father, Sajid, a gun owner, was shot dead by police at the scene.

Virginia Giuffre’s family have said they are "deeply disappointed" by the Metropolitan Police’s decision not to investigate reports Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked an officer to help dig up dirt on her.

Mikhail Koryak, described by investigators as one of the leaders of an international criminal network involved in fraud and contract killings, may soon be extradited to Russia, according to sources familiar with the case.

The Nepalis were lured to Myanmar by promises of legitimate jobs, but said they were tortured and forced to work in scam compounds before being rescued.

Promoted as Russia’s largest event for business and entrepreneurs, Alfa-Conf, organized by Alfa Bank, instead revealed the empty state of the country’s corporate culture, descending into a bizarre mix of astrology, motivational clichés, and showbusiness chatter.

Croatian businessman Josip Heit is being examined for his suspected involvement in Ponzi schemes and money laundering.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner’s sister and her three children in a house fire.