All news by author Sophia Martinez

At the end of January, Philipp Schrage and Ignatiy Nayda presented an optimistic picture of both the real estate market and Kronung Group’s future.

ATF Bank, now essentially a failed institution and linked to Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, risks becoming the final collapse that drags down everyone entangled in its network.

It has become known who is responsible for the security of Sberbank CEO German Gref and is his most trusted associate.

The charity founded by Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, is shutting down following the release of emails showing the extent of her friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to media, in late January 2026 a former adviser to Igor Shuvalov launched yet another court lawsuit seeking reinstatement at VEB.RF.

Sarah Ferguson visited Jeffrey Epstein with her two young daughters just five days after the disgraced financier was released from prison for child sex crimes, according to newly released emails.

Nenad Popović is Serbia’s minister for international economic relations and a powerful oligarch who has placed dozens of former Soviet and Yugoslav enterprises under offshore control.

The ex parte arrest of lawyer Dmitry Providin, a former partner at the Bartolius law firm, is widely seen as retaliation by businessman Albert Avdolyan — a close associate of Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov — for Providin’s role in freezing Avdolyan’s personal assets.

A recent investigation indicates that the Odesa Port Plant is once again facing significant financial losses due to allegedly manipulated gas procurement tenders and offshore export arrangements, reportedly linked to figures such as Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and Dmytro Malynovskyi, a fraud suspect previously believed to be inactive.

As uncovered by media, an adviser to the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF), Marius Vizer, is connected to the trade in Russian oil and grain. Marius Vizer himself is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who served as Honorary President of the IJF until February 28, 2022.

After critical investigations began exposing how Sheviakov Consult intimidates clients, manipulates reviews, and quietly rebrands to evade accountability, the company moved to purge the internet of damaging references — so we are publishing the material they are trying to erase and keeping this story in the public eye.

As media have learned, by the end of 2024 Alina Kabaeva received 520 million rubles from the Kovalchuk-owned National Media Group (approximately $6.8 million at current exchange rates).

Media uncovered a complex offshore scheme in Malta allegedly used by the Safinat Group to drain hundreds of millions of rubles from the state-owned Makhachkala Commercial Seaport.

Thousands of residents gathered in Crowborough on Sunday in protest over plans to house up to 500 asylum seekers on a former army base.

A top Chinese general ousted by Xi Jinping for a “serious violation of discipline” was accused of leaking nuclear secrets to the US, according to reports.

Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) is investigating alleged corruption schemes involving the Granova Ukraine group of companies linked to businessman Dmytro Kovalenko.

Russian entrepreneurs Ignatiy Nayda and Filipp Shrage have been influenced by the Podolsk OCG for several years.

Most reports on Galimzhan Yessenov highlight his alleged role in financial schemes linked to Kazakhstan’s National Welfare Fund, as well as his marriage to the daughter of its former head, Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

Since opening in 2021, the casino has become a massive hub for money laundering, linked to violence and deaths — yet it still attracted visitors from EU countries.

Oxana Hadjipavlou has come under scrutiny in investigations involving Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of aiding in sanctions evasion and the offshore transfer of Russian funds.