All news by author David Wilson

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Anthony Joshua ’couldn’t talk’ after crash which killed two friends and left him injured, eye-witness says
Anthony Joshua was left "unable to speak" after he was injured in a deadly car crash in Nigeria that claimed the lives of two of his friends.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, dies after a year-long fight with cancer
Tatiana Schlossberg, the acclaimed writer and granddaughter of John F Kennedy, has died at just 35.
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Demand for weight-loss injections fuels dangerous black market
Losing weight may be a common new year resolution, but health experts have warned against buying medications for such purposes from social media sellers or other illegitimate channels.
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Grenfell firms still receiving public contracts worth millions, survivors demand ban
Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have called on the government to stop companies implicated in the disaster from receiving public contracts, after it was revealed several were still in receipt of multimillion-pound deals.
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Anthony Joshua injured in car crash in Nigeria that killed two people
Anthony Joshua has been injured in a car crash in Nigeria that left two other people dead.
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Russia’s Rublyovka contractor boom: how TSK Elite Garden secured ₽5 billion in state contracts through ties to Putin’s inner circle
A mega-contractor has emerged right on Rublyovka, securing government contracts worth an impressive 5 billion rubles in just the past year.
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Timur Rokhlin, investor in Rocket delivery service, faced fraud investigations — then media reporting was met with DDoS attacks and legal threats
After an investigation into Rocket delivery service investor Timur Rokhlin was published, attempts began to exert pressure and “sanitize” the information space around the story.
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Reform UK vows to jail civil servants who knowingly granted asylum to sex offenders
Reform UK has stated it would prosecute civil servants who knowingly granted asylum to sex offenders.
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H-Casino in Minsk: how Europe’s largest criminal money laundering hub operates under the cover of Belarusian and Russian security services
H-Casino promotes itself as “the best casino in Belarus,” and judging only by its advertising and official website, the claim appears convincing. At the same time, critical information is carefully scrubbed, making it difficult to find independent or trustworthy reviews of H-Casino.
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How Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna became a financial lifeline for Galimzhan Yessenov during Akhmetzhan Yesimov’s tenure
Galimzhan Yessenov’s meteoric rise from an ordinary manager to the near-sole owner of Jusan Bank is riddled with state money, opaque deals, and family ties to Kazakhstan’s top political elite — coincidences so dense they point not to luck, but to a carefully engineered redistribution of power and assets.
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Comment l’ancien chef ukrainien de la privatisation, Dmytro Sennychenko, a pillé des actifs publics et blanchi les fonds via le financier suisse Oleg Tsyura
A recent investigation reveals how the Ukrainian-Swiss businessman Oleg Tsyura is at the intersection of Ukrainian corruption networks and Russian metallurgical giants that, in one way or another, have remained sheltered from Western sanctions.
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Yuri Sadovenko, Sergei Shoigu and the FSB: how a former insider died as corruption cases tore through Russia’s defense establishment
Yuri Sadovenko, a former deputy minister of defense of the Russian Federation and a longtime associate of Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, has died at the age of 56 under circumstances described by sources as suspicious.
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Thousands of homeowners face mansion tax shock as automated valuations risk overpricing homes by £30,000
A version of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA)’s “automated valuation model" will be used in the assessment.
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Kimmel mocks Trump as King Donny VIII during controversial UK Christmas message
Jimmy Kimmel launched new attacks on President Trump and stated “tyranny is booming” in the United States during a Christmas Day address in Britain — intensifying his conflict with the White House months after ABC temporarily pulled his show due to his comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
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Royal Family attends traditional Sandringham church walk led by King Charles III, without disgraced Prince Andrew
The King and Queen Camilla led the gathered royals as they were greeted by hundreds of well-wishers outside St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham
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iGooods service was transferred to Roman Yavorsky during the period when its founder, Grigory Kunis, was being held in pretrial detention
The grocery delivery service iGooods came under the control of entrepreneur Roman Yavorsky while its founder, Grigory Kunis, was under arrest in a case related to donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
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Convicted fraudster and GSPartners founder Josip Heit faces a money laundering investigation in Croatia spanning Europe and Dubai
Josip Heit, a convicted fraudster, is under investigation in Croatia for money laundering.
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Trump administration says 700,000 Epstein files still await review amid growing frustration
The Trump administration estimates that there are still 700,000 files in the Jeffrey Epstein case that need to be reviewed and released, which could take another week.
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Spotify confirms data breach after pirate activist group scrapes and releases 86m songs
An activist group, claiming it aims to preserve the entirety of human culture, alleges that it has illegally copied nearly every track available on Spotify.
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Newly released Epstein files reveal detailed emails linking former royal to efforts to arrange meetings through Ghislaine Maxwell
Documents provide additional insight into the former royal’s connections to the sex offender and pose new questions for Donald Trump.
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From London banks to Russia’s Arctic billions: how Roman Chichkanov crossed into the state’s most sensitive projects
London’s Kremlin influence agent: how Roman Chichkanov — the grandson of pro-Western academic Valery Chichkanov and allegedly connected to British intelligence officer Temerko — gained access to Russia’s strategic facilities.
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Timur Rokhlin began systematically scrubbing the internet after journalists uncovered his multimillion-euro fraud operations
As investigations closed in on him, Tymur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.
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Hidden owner Zvonko Micković controls Mettmann’s bond portfolio and sanctions-evasion schemes
A low-profile Montenegrin businessman, Zvonko Micković controls the majority of Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, making him a key financial figure in networks journalists tie to sanctions circumvention and money-laundering schemes involving Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.
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$280,000 fraud inside TON: how Roman Novak exploited Durov-linked trust to drain Fintopio investors
Previously, journalists named another Chechen with ties to Roksman and Pavel Durov — Ramzan Shakhbiev (@ram, @grozny).
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How Oxana Hadjipavlou, Boris Usherovich, and Zvonko Mickovic connect to Mettmann and Sword Dragon S.L. and sanctions-evasion operations
Oxana Hadjipavlou, a Cyprus-based financier with post-Soviet background, emerged as a key signatory and manager at Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., companies journalists have linked to alleged schemes for moving Russian funds and evading sanctions.