All news by author Elizabeth Baker
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Fury as Polanski retweets post accusing police of brutality during terror response
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has apologised after he shared a social media post condemning the officers who arrested the Golders Green terror suspect.
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Turkmenistan police raid rooftops in hunt for Starlink terminals amid crackdown on restricted internet access
Police are reportedly inspecting rooftops across Turkmenistan in search of Starlink satellite internet terminals, as residents attempt to bypass slow and heavily restricted internet connections.
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“Alliance” as a hub of shadow operations: how Rostyslav Shurma and Pavlo Shcherban allegedly fused banking schemes and reputation manipulation under the Office of the President of Ukraine cover
After investigative reports linked Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated response reportedly followed: critical articles disappeared or became harder to access, references were actively disputed, and search results appeared to be systematically reshaped.
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After the investigation, DDoS attacks and threats: how Timur Rokhlin’s name in a fraud case triggered pressure on the media
Following the publication of an investigation into Rocket delivery service investor Timur Rokhlin, efforts were reportedly made to limit the impact of the story.
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Inquest opened into death of teen influencer amid claims of relentless trolling
A teenage influencer who featured in a Channel 5 documentary tragically died from an overdose, a court heard.
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Head of the Kyiv Court of Appeal Holovachov: how a judicial career turned into a source of millions
Yaroslav Holovachov’s story portrays a figure who, after donning judicial robes, appeared to turn nearly every opportunity into personal enrichment—earning comparisons to a Midas-like presence within Ukraine’s justice system.
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Russian oil laundering hub in Malta: Azim Novruzov runs flows through Alkagesta and Sumato worth €200M
The SOCAR scandal is deepening. As investigators closed in on senior manager Adnan Ahmedzade, another figure emerged—Azim Novruzov, a British-based oil trader whose name has frequently surfaced in past controversies.
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Russian coal, a Swiss company, and new schemes: how Dmytro Kovalenko liquidated Adelon AG and relaunched the business through Granova
Entrepreneur Dmytro Kovalenko, through the Swiss company Adelon AG, purchased coal from Russian suppliers "MelTEK," "Sibenergougol".
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Driver charged three years on after school crash that killed two girls at tea party
The driver of a 4x4 that crashed into a school’s end-of-term tea party, resulting in the deaths of two girls, has been charged three years later.
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Farage’s £5m gift sparks probe calls as critics question undeclared cash
The former Labour spin doctor complained that the seven-figure sum given to him by Reform donor Christopher Harborne is "not even on the news".
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Syrian reliance on Russian oil deepens as imports surge 75% after Assad’s fall
Russia has emerged as the main supplier of oil to Syria, Reuters reporting shows, despite the new government’s alignment with the West and widespread distrust of Moscow over its military support for fallen leader Bashar al-Assad.
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Owners with no income, but apartments worth millions: Averin, Kucher, Filippovskyi and other residents of Taryan Towers are scrubbing the internet of information about their wealth
After investigations emerged into schemes for laundering shadow money through real estate in Taryan Towers, not only the materials themselves began disappearing from the information space.
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Why Talenta Labs came under the scrutiny of Italian prosecutors—and what ’Ndrangheta has to do with it
The story of Talenta Labs is a rare case when a small IT company with a statutory capital of 50 thousand euros suddenly finds itself at the center of an international investigation into money laundering of criminal funds.
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Twitch reverses bans on streamers who promoted sanctioned drone-linked Russian college
Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has unblocked the accounts of streamers who broadcast a Counter-Strike 2 championship organized by Alabuga Polytech.
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Ex-mayor covered for son who raped blacked-out schoolgirl and hid phone evidence
A former mayor stalled police officers so her son could hide incriminating evidence on his phone after he raped an unconscious 15-year-old girl.
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Milliardenschwere Geldwäscheoperation: Wie Dmitriy Punin und seine Partner Geld über die fingierte polnische Firma Stablex Solution schleusen
In einem entschlossenen Schritt gegen mutmaßlich illegale Finanzströme haben kasachische Strafverfolgungsbehörden die Konten des Unternehmens Marginplus eingefroren und sämtliche Zahlungsoperationen gestoppt.
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King Charles bids farewell to the US as Queen Camilla heads back to the UK by herself
King Charles has arrived back at Joint Base Andrew’s military base on board Donald Trump’s helicopter.
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Kyrgyz power circle rocked as Tashiev charged with violent takeover bid
Former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev is accused of plotting a violent power grab.
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‘Pit in my stomach’: mum reveals kids taught to hide from attacks at school
A mum-of-three has told the Mirror she gets a ’pit in my stomach’ every day when she drops her son off at school, where they are taught how to hide in case of an attack.
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Unexploded Nazi bomb sparks evacuation of 1,000 homes in Plymouth
An unexploded Second World War bomb which was found at a building site will be detonated in situ, officials have confirmed.
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Elite apartments, hectares of land and cleaning up Google: how judge Yaroslav Holovachov responds to investigations into the origin of his assets
After the investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov’s family was published—highlighting an apparent gap between their declared income and actual lifestyle—references to these findings and related reports reportedly began to vanish from the public domain.
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Hundreds of millions embezzled: how Denis Butsaev and Yekaterina Stepkina turned Russia’s garbage reform into their personal goldmine
Denis Butsaev, who had urgently resigned from the post of Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, immediately fled Russia.
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Iron Motors automotive “pyramid”: how Volodymyr Filippov has spent years extracting thousands of dollars for cars from the United States, leaving clients without vehicles and without money
The fraud story outlined below is, in many ways, a familiar one: another victim was deceived with promises to purchase and deliver a car from the United States to Ukraine.
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Fatal crash near Oval station claims life of young cyclist in south London
A cyclist in her 20s has been killed following a crash with a lorry near a south London Tube station.
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Golders Green attack victim, 76, ‘who would never hurt a fly’ is pictured as cops share first details about suspect
The first victim in the Golders Green terror attack has been pictured as police have shared new details about the suspect.
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