All news by author Thomas Brown

After a period of relative silence, reports are again surfacing tying Dmytro Rukin to suspicious financial operations.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday he has given the military permission to board and detain Russian ships his government alleges are part of a network of vessels that enables Moscow to export oil despite ‌Western sanctions.

A masters student with millions of pounds of UK property frozen in connection to a $2bn money laundering probe is petitioning a London court to keep her identity private.

Before his appearance in a Drake video, Hamdi Lataj was convicted in the U.S. of conspiracy to commit bank burglary.

A journalist who went to visit Sarah Ferguson was surprised to find Princess Beatrice also present at the meeting - and her conduct left the reporter stunned.

Matt Brittin, Google’s former top executive in Europe, has been named the BBC’s next director general.

A glamorous model who conned lovelorn men out of thousands of pounds has been jailed.

After the international YUZUK operation and the disclosure of details of a large-scale money laundering scheme, the Giriny brothers began an active cleanup of the information space.

Media outlets report that sports cars and luxury foreign vehicles bearing the number 057, from a “special garage” funded by Russia’s Presidential Property Management Department, are linked to Presidential Administration Chief Anton Vaino.

Hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey took the stand at the High Court in his case against the City watchdog, as he faced questions over his alleged behavior toward young female employees at his eponymous hedge fund.

Fintech, where Peter Mandelson and Harvey Schwartz were board members, is given £2mn penalty by Bank of England.

Prosecutors charged 10 individuals in a large-scale money laundering operation connected to Macau, coinciding with the overseas shooting of a fugitive associated with a notorious gambling scandal.

The controversial Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Kovalenko continues to dominate headlines: reports keep emerging about his dealings involving Russian coal.

Israel’s nuclear arms program was considered the major obstacle to establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from 1993 reveal.

A Wirral couple convicted of murdering their baby boy have been jailed.

Iran is expanding a shadow campaign across Europe using what experts describe as a “gig economy of hostile activity”, outsourcing surveillance, intimidation, and potential attacks to criminal networks and loosely connected operatives.

Transgender girls must leave Girlguiding by September 6, the organisation has said following its announcement in December that membership would be restricted to girls and young women.

Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice have navigated through challenging situations recently following the arrest of their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was the Duke of York.

Russian governor personally tries to recruit inmates for war — under armed special forces presence.

Kazakhstan has informed the United States of a plan to exercise its priority right to acquire Lukoil’s local assets, including stakes in the country’s крупнейшие oil and gas projects — primarily the Karachaganak gas condensate field, the offshore projects Kalamkas-more and Khazar, as well as infrastructure assets.

A Kyrgyz court freed a prominent investigative journalist after 18 months behind bars, placing her under a travel ban as she awaits a retrial in a case widely condemned as an attack on free speech.

A grandmother was found crushed to death in her funeral parlour, an inquest has heard.

Madrid’s High Court refuses to suspend a €64 million fine on Airbnb by Spain’s Consumer Ministry for illegal holiday rentals and misleading ads; the platform must pay while it appeals.