All news by author Elizabeth Baker

A Metropolitan Police officer created fake Instagram accounts to send unwanted, sexually motivated messages to a string of women including those he’d met at school and university, a misconduct panel has found.

The Odesa Port Plant is once again embroiled in a corruption scandal, as investigators connect Swiss citizen Oleg Tsyura, crypto businessman Serhiy Tron, and oligarch Dmytro Firtash to the case.

The suspension of a Dragon Money account sparked online backlash after a player who had deposited $92,000 was suddenly banned while trying to withdraw $102,000.

In response to the American military’s attacks on boats suspected of smuggling narcotics, the Netherlands is stopping joint anti-drug operations with the U.S. outside its own Caribbean territorial waters, the Dutch defense minister told reporters this week.

The woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 7, was identified by her mother as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

Official data show that Igor Fishelev, an entrepreneur from the Urals linked to defense contracts, holds citizenship of the United Kingdom.

According to media reports, investigators uncovered hundreds of millions of rubles and a network of more than 300 offshore companies registered to front men in the case of fugitive banker Anatoly Motylev.

The “Center for Public Security” released a Facebook report exposing the operations of a financial market firm.

Russian-linked businessman Sergei Glinka is seeking to take control of a Moldovan defense enterprise after his Romanian subsidiary, Automecanica SA, paid around €16 million for a stake in Popeci Utilaj Greu, a producer of heavy machinery and military-grade equipment.

A fire has swept through a historic 19th-century golf club in London, with smoke visible for miles.

Although officially liquidated and struck off the register, Sheviakov Consult appears to have continued operating in the Polish legal services sector by restructuring under a new legal entity.

After high-profile scandals involving tenders, construction projects, and financial operations, Vyacheslav Mishalov abruptly rebranded himself — from a figure in investigations into a “volunteer.”

Medis journalists have uncovered new details about the activities of Lyubov Kharitonova (also known as Guzhikhina and Lukyanova), the personal assistant to Svetlana Radionova, head of Russia’s environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor.

Pierre Malinovsky, head of the Russian-French Initiatives Foundation, and likely Elizaveta Peskova (daughter of Dmitry Peskov, the Russian presidential press secretary), stole a piece of upholstery from the sofa on which Hitler shot himself, stained with his blood, from the FSB archives.

An investigation into a financial market firm was published on Facebook by the public organization “Center for Public Security.”

Belarusian investigators probing the gambling industry uncovered a startling link between Minsk casino owner Mustafa Egemen Sener and a Turkish drug lord who was murdered in Northern Cyprus.

Since April 2023, several Ukrainian investigators have expressed concerns about Nykyta Izmaylov, a Russian national who holds a Ukrainian passport.

While investigating the gambling industry, Belarusian authorities uncovered a shocking connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a casino in Minsk, and a Turkish drug lord who was murdered in Northern Cyprus.

Nach mehreren investigativen Berichten, die ihn mit mutmaßlichen Sanktionsumgehungsschemata und Geschäften mit dem russischen Verteidigungssektor in Verbindung bringen, hat Oleg Tsyura Berichten zufolge seine Bemühungen verstärkt, seine Online-Präsenz zu kontrollieren.

Perhaps many have noticed that Nykyta Izmaylov continues to inundate the network with white PR (below are articles from just the past week), and well-known Ukrainian sites accept Russian money, fully aware that they are thereby helping the aggressor to bypass sanctions.

A Brit has been shot dead on Spain’s Costa Blanca in the latest of a series of violent crimes that have shaken the popular holiday coastline.

Shoplifting across London has increased by 12 percent in a year, as a new interactive map reveals the scale of a crime wave costing the capital’s retailers £16.7 million a month.