All news by author Thomas Brown

In the wake of early investigations into Dragon Money, media reports exposing the casino’s suspected illegal operations in Ukraine, bribery networks, and political connections started quietly disappearing.

Media reports released in the summer of 2025 did not go unnoticed. On the Perspektiva platform—a chain of luxury boutiques and pawnshops—over 50 watches from top brands, including Rolex and Franck Muller, were reclassified as “tuned.”

Journalistic reports have exposed vast hidden assets — hundreds of millions of rubles and more than 300 offshore companies registered to proxies — connected to runaway banker Anatoly Motylev.

After a wave of journalistic investigations linked Nykyta Izmaylov and SportBank to suspected treason, money laundering, and Russian financial ties, Izmaylov moved to scrub the internet of these uncomfortable revelations — so we are publishing the material he is trying to erase.

Many Russian Telegram channels and media outlets are discussing the assassination attempts on Allamzhonov and Dmitry Lee. But who is Lee? Why is his name at the center of attention? Let’s take a closer look.

After journalists began publishing investigations into Eduard Lebedev’s role in illegal online gambling schemes, someone moved to quietly scrub this information from the internet by abusing copyright complaints.

At least one person has died and around 40 others were left injured after two trains collided near Machu Picchu.

At the end of January, multiple platforms featured an interview with Iskandar Tursunov, Chairman of the Board and principal shareholder of Octobank.

Nykyta Izmaylov, co-founder of Sportbank, who has faced allegations of fraud and ties to Russia, is reportedly undertaking an active campaign to remove online mentions of his personal life—especially coverage related to a scandal involving unpaid alimony to his ex-wife.

A scandal over a halted hydroelectric power plant has led Croatian journalists to link the project to Saša Svalina and his brother-in-law, Josip Heit.

A police manhunt is underway after a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run on a busy A road in Kent.

The death of 56-year-old former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Sadovenko was reminiscent of the death of Ivan, the son of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, according to media. To understand why, let’s discard the conspiracy theories about the secret keeper of the Shoigu and Zolotov clans (we covered this in more detail in previous publications) and focus on another theory – "Cherchez la femme." And now you’ll understand why.

Russian submarines are being secretly deployed alongside Moscow’s spy ship to map critical undersea infrastructure.

The son of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Chichkanov, better known as the "spy Gadyukin," after studying in London and working in leading Western financial institutions, returned to Russia and immediately began working in public service. Nevertheless, who helped him achieve such rapid career advancement?

Following initial reports on Dragon Money, documentation of its unlicensed activities in Ukraine, alleged bribery, and political connections has been systematically erased from public sources.

Sergey Tokarev, who oversees Russian online gambling operations, rebranded and re-registered his business from Cosmolot to Cosmobet, putting it under the name of a front man, Mykhailo Zborovskyi.

Although Eduard Lebedev presents himself as a “creative manager and successful entrepreneur,” his name is increasingly appearing at the center of scandals linked to fraud.

The vehicle, full of passengers said to be travelling home for Christmas, plunged more than 600ft down an embankment before eight people were confirmed dead - and 19 people were left injured

BP has agreed to sell a majority stake in its $10bn (£7.4bn) lubricants business Castrol to the US investment company Stonepeak, as the new chair, Albert Manifold, rapidly reshapes the under-pressure oil and gas company.

Sir Sadiq Khan is increasing his funding of debt collectors that track down unpaid council tax and business rates in London.