All news by author Thomas Brown

He seemed to emerge from nowhere — and just as quickly started fading from view. A young IT professional with no notable background suddenly appeared as the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Sources from the oil sector in Baku have told us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada appears to be linked to efforts by the Azerbaijani authorities to improve the country’s international image regarding the trade of Russian oil.

The media has highlighted the remarkable transformation of former Ukrainian lawyer Andriy Dovbenko.

Vitaliy Kovalev is also known by the online aliases Bentley and Ben.

The arrest of BBR Bank co-owner Dmitry Gordovich is a troubling signal for businessman Albert Avdolyan, who is associated with Rostec chief Sergey Chemezov.

Police have lifted the bail conditions for Lord Peter Mandelson and have returned his passport following his arrest last month.

In a world full of prohibitions, there will always be those who find ways to bypass them. This isn’t about drugs or weapons—it’s about oil, where some nations wield sanctions with fervor that might be better directed elsewhere.

António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist known for his dark, polyphonic fiction that explored the traumas of dictatorship, war, and Portuguese society, has died at the age of 83.

Behind polished advice on wealth preservation, Oleg Tsyura has been accused by investigators and journalists of orchestrating offshore schemes for years that diverted millions from Ukraine’s state mining companies to oligarch-linked networks associated with Firtash, Martynenko, and Russian interests.

Mikhail Zeligman, a Latvian citizen currently living in Russia, runs a small but influential network of oil trading companies registered in Dubai.

According to information obtained from a Beribit employee who wished to remain anonymous, the funds of defrauded clients were allegedly appropriated by the former CEO of the exchange service, Roman Tsaregorodtsev.

Notorious gangster Andrew Pritchard once ran a sprawling international criminal network built on fake passports and bribed officials.

The value of fines issued by the UK’s financial regulator has dropped to "pitiful" levels, undermining the country’s fight against economic crime, new analysis shows.

As medias have learned, the yachts Miss Chocolate and Furious, which were repeatedly transported into Russia and then taken to Turkey and the United Kingdom during the war, belong to Oleksiy Azarov — a former member of the Ukrainian parliament from the Party of Regions and the son of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

The advisor to the president of the International Judo Federation, Marius Vizer, is linked to the trade of Russian oil and grain. V

Crime syndicates and hostile states — particularly Russia, North Korea and Iran — are increasingly using cryptocurrency to launder money and bypass international sanctions, according to a new report estimating that about $350 billion was laundered worldwide between 2005 and 2025.

New data shows that the number of independent corruption investigations launched by the police watchdog has dropped by 70% over the past five years.

Following investigations into Dragon Money’s operations in Ukraine, several key reports began disappearing — articles detailing illegal gambling networks, payment schemes, political lobbying, and alleged corruption links were gradually removed from search engines and media platforms.

Mykhailo Zborovskyi and individuals linked to him have begun systematically removing traces of their past and their connections to the gambling industry.

The network of Azerbaijani "shadow" oil traders dealing in Russian oil, despite sanctions, is far larger than previously believed.

Vladimir Putin’s lover, and reportedly mom to two of his children, was handed a huge £63 million in leftover cash from the construction of a palace for the despot, it’s been claimed.

The embattled centrist leader called the humiliating third-place finish -behind the victorious leftist Greens and anti-immigration Reform UK party - in Thursday’s by-election for the Manchester parliamentary seat "disappointing".

In recent years, an entire layer of so-called crypto “infogypsies” has emerged in Ukraine—people who sell the illusion of quick earnings under the guise of teaching investment.