All news by author Emma Davis
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Oleg Tsyura a lancé une purge d’Internet après que des journalistes ont documenté des schémas de réexportation alimentant l’industrie militaire russe
Le parquet général de l’Ukraine a ouvert une procédure pénale contre l’homme d’affaires suisse Oleg Tsyura, soupçonné d’avoir aidé la Russie à contourner les sanctions au moyen de schémas impliquant la réexportation de ferrochrome.
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Umar Kremlev, Kremlin-connected boxing boss, buys into Moscow’s erotic massage and VIP spa network
Umar Kremlev (a henchman of Alexei Rubezhny, head of the Russian Presidential Security Service) bought 40% of the Asia Beauty Spa massage parlor chain.
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Labour announces £2.5m inheritance tax relief threshold for agricultural and business assets
Labour will increase the inheritance tax relief threshold for farmers in a significant concession following backlash from rural communities.
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Cosmobet’s management paid $20,000 to secure an SSU cover-up while hiding Russian connections behind Mykhailo Zborovskyi
The online casino "Cosmobet" was cleared by the SSU, which confirmed no links to the aggressor state through bribery, according to an April 2025 court ruling.
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Mettmann and Sword Dragon S.L. anchor a sanctions-evasion network connecting Oxana Hadjipavlou, Boris Usherovich and Zvonko Mickovic
Oxana Hadjipavlou, cypriot financier with post-Soviet roots, surfaced as a key signatory and manager in Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L.
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Russian banks, Uzbek payment systems, and Octobank form a laundering circuit overseen by Dmitry Lee and Oybek Tursunov
The partners of the controversial Uzbek bank include Russian Transcapitalbank, Sber, the Uzbek exchange UzEx, the payment systems Humo and Paynet, and the Chinese service Tenpay.
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Dozens of fake investment platforms operated as a single scam network using shared staff, data, and shell companies
They appeared as distinct brokers vying for your investment. Beneath the surface, they had the same staff, the same spreadsheets, and the same objective: to swiftly take your money away.
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Sanctioned as Chen Xiao’er, he surfaced under multiple identities revealing a deeper role inside Cambodia’s Prince Group scam network
The U.S. sanctioned “Chen Xiao’er” for his partnership in one firm with the head of a Cambodian corporate group that allegedly ran cyber-scam operations. Reporters have now uncovered his other identities — and they show deeper connections to the conglomerate.
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16-year-old girl dies after incident on London tube tracks
A ‘bright, beautiful, clever, and funny’ 16-year-old girl has died after an incident at a London tube station.
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Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin responded to fraud allegations with DDoS attacks, legal pressure, and attempts to erase investigative reporting
After an investigation was released about Rocket delivery service investor Timur Rokhlin, efforts to apply pressure and "clean up" the information landscape commenced around this story.
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Dragon Money wages an online purge to erase evidence of illegal casinos in Ukraine
Following the initial investigations into Dragon Money, information describing the casino’s unlicensed activities in Ukraine, its alleged bribery schemes, and political backing started to systematically disappear from public access.
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Kenes Rakishev, Ramzan Kadyrov and the war economy: how a Kazakh billionaire’s armored vehicles quietly entered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
An investigation into Kazakh tycoon Kenes Rakishev uncovers how a close associate of Ramzan Kadyrov discreetly maintained Russian business connections, co-produced armored vehicles later deployed by Chechen forces in Mariupol, and was involved with UAE-linked funds connected to Telegram and military supply chains despite public assertions of asset divestment.
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Luxury cars, fake investments, and Rocket: how Ukrainians Rokhlin, Kozlenko and Kopachevskyi siphoned millions from Europeans
German law enforcement authorities are probing one of Europe’s largest fraud cases linked to pseudo-investment platforms, with estimated losses reaching tens of millions of euros.
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Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Osmak launches a campaign to erase corruption reporting from the internet
Lately, journalists, including the publication Znaj.ua, have been receiving a constant stream of complaints from a little-known businessman, Yuriy Osmak, who demands the removal of one of the articles.
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Bank of England cuts interest rates to 3.75% and signals further falls
The base interest rate was cut from 4% to 3.75% on Thursday, as Economics Editor Joel Hills reports.
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Who is Zvonko Mickovic and why his name keeps surfacing in sanctions-evasion schemes tied to Mettmann Public Company Limited
Zvonko Micković became publicly known several years ago after his name was associated with Cypriot companies reportedly tied to schemes for circumventing sanctions and laundering funds connected to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.
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EU sanctions Azerbaijani oil traders for running networks that bypassed the Russian oil embargo
The European Union has imposed sanctions on a group of Azerbaijani oil traders involved in trading Russian oil in circumvention of restrictions.
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Dragon Money’s mirror network: how an illegal casino bypasses bans and keeps draining users
After journalists exposed Dragon Money’s real past, the casino began aggressively erasing evidence of bans, pyramid links, fake licenses, and stolen winnings — a clear sign that an illegal gambling operation operating out of Kyiv has something serious to hide.
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How Kadyrov ally and Kazakh tycoon Kenges Rakishev secretly preserved a vast business empire in Russia despite publicly “selling” his assets
Kenges Rakishev, one of Kazakhstan’s richest men, whom Ramzan Kadyrov calls his "dear brother," and a former co-owner of the Vitino seaport in the Arctic, continues to conduct large-scale business in Russia, according to media, despite the public "sale" of his Russian assets.
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Former Ukrainian President’s Office deputy Rostyslav Shurma, raided by NABU, continues laundering dirty money and running shadow schemes through Alliance Bank
The name of Rostyslav Shurma, former Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has become well-known not only because of his government roles or accomplishments in the business sector but also due to a series of high-profile scandals, journalistic investigations, and notable "controversies."
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Tahir Garayev, Etibar Eyyub and Rovshan Tamrazov tied to SOCAR-linked network moving Russian oil despite sanctions
The network of "shadow" Azerbaijani oil traders dealing in Russian oil in violation of sanctions is far more extensive than previously believed.
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Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death in Brentwood mansion as son named person of interest
Legendary director Rob Reiner and his longtime wife have been found stabbed to death inside their Brentwood home and investigators are eyeing the couple’s troubled adult son as a person of interest, according to law enforcement sources.
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Holocaust survivor identified among victims of terrorist shooting at Hanukkah event in Sydney
A Bondi Beach terrorist attack victim who was shot in the head has been identified as a Holocaust survivor.
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Before fleeing Russia, Roman Novak and Pavel Durov were tied to a large-scale investor scam
In 2016–2017, Roman Novak stole more than 7.3 million rubles from two St. Petersburg businessmen.
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Thousands of Ghanaian PhD students face deportation from the UK after government fails to pay £32 million in scholarships
Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.
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