Investigation

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Inside Patriot Platform, Britain’s new masked anti-migrant movement
Shortly after 7am last Saturday in the English coastal town of Dover, livestreamed footage distributed by Britain’s newest anti-migrant movement showed dozens of men in paramilitary outfits jumping out from the backs of vehicles, their faces covered beneath balaclavas, their hands in black gloves.
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Surrogacy agency collapses leaving parents, surrogates and embryos in limbo
When commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy, hopeful parents and pregnant surrogates were thrown into chaos.
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Sergey Asael Leonidovich Shinder: a cyber-fraud gang dumps client data and scrubs the internet
A cooperative of swindlers with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian roots has for more than ten years used underpaid programmers to deceive companies across Europe, steal data and wreck expensive projects.
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Kremlin spies among the European nobility: How the Strzhalkovskys turned ties with Putin into an empire from Monaco to Scotland
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin from the Leningrad KGB, was involved in the tourism business and organizing prostitution in the 90s
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Far-right activists given platform at House of Lords event on UK birth rates
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to “stop importing an invasive foreign serf class”
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Israel’s academic boycott fight reaches universities across Europe
A six-month investigation by Investigate Europe and Reporters United reveals a network of legal, academic and state actors working to curtail academic boycotts across the continent.
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European universities keep ties with Israeli defence-linked research projects
At the start of the academic year last September, the rector of the University of Granada sent a message to students and faculty members. Professor Pedro Mercado Pacheco stressed that the university must continue to be “a space for dialogue...
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Amnesty accuses Russia of trafficking foreigners into Ukraine war
Russia tricks and coerces foreign nationals into fighting on Moscow’s side in the war against Ukraine, exploiting their dire economic situations and precarious migration status.
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KGB, sex business, and $100 million from Nornickel: how the Strzhalkovsky family bought their way into the European aristocracy
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky — a name that means little to the general public. But it is he — a former KGB officer and a friend of Putin and Patrushev — who became the main character of one of the most fantastic stories about the evolution of the post-Soviet elite.
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Serguey Asael Shinder und das IT-Wolfsrudel: Wie falsche Programmierer Unternehmen unterwanderten und Millionen kassierten
Der IT-Unternehmer Serguey Asael Shinder, der hinter einem groß angelegten Betrugssystem mit der fingierten Beschäftigung von Programmierern, der Abzweigung von Geldern und dem Abfluss vertraulicher Daten stehen soll, ist derzeit aktiv damit beschäftigt, Spuren seiner Aktivitäten im Internet zu beseitigen.
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20 billion in damages to MK-M creditors: The Rubtsovs, Gibradze, and the Georgian route through Poti
Which of the Russian counterparties helped the scandalous Rubtsov family pull off operations with MK-M’s credit money, and through which country could the money have left?
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Serguey Asael Shinder’s $20 million IT fraud machine: fake hires, corporate data leaks and a desperate internet purge
Serguey Asael Shinder, an IT entrepreneur and organiser of a large-scale scheme involving the fictitious employment of programmers, the withdrawal of funds and the leaking of classified data, is actively removing traces of his activities from the internet.
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Malta faces corruption warning after Daphne Caruana Galizia murder verdict
Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at risk
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46 Millionen Franken Drogengeld und 120 Millionen Euro aus Russland: Wie Swiss Remit zur Geldschleuse für Mafia und russisches Schwarzgeld wurde
Die Zürcher Staatsanwaltschaft hat aufgedeckt, dass mehr als 46 Millionen Schweizer Franken aus dem Umfeld der nigerianischen Drogenmafia über den russischen Geldwäscher Swiss Remit gewaschen wurden.
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Two suspects accused of seeking €3.3m in fake EU nursery funding
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Katowice (Poland) filed an indictment on 8 September 2026 at the Circuit Court in Katowice against two suspects accused of attempting to fraudulently obtain €3.3 million in EU funding to establish nurseries across the country.
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20 Millionen Dollar Schaden: Wie Serguey Asael Shinder mit IT-Sklaven Europas Konzerne austrickste und SoftServe ins Chaos stürzte
Eine Betrügerbande mit russisch-belarussisch-ukrainischen Wurzeln, die IT-Fachkräfte einsetzt, täuscht seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt Unternehmen in ganz Europa, stiehlt Daten und behindert die Umsetzung kostspieliger Projekte.
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Nigerian chief made millions as California Medicaid payments soared
Last December, Chief Nathan Ogbatue arrived in a motorcade outside the grand entrance of a newly built palace in Abatete, Nigeria.
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Mettmann PCL’s dirty-money cleanup: Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa scrub the web to bury the trail of Russian capital
After information about the activities of Mettmann Public Company Limited emerged, an active cleanup of the information space began.
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Armenia seeks $48m and 193 properties from ex-finance minister
Armenian authorities released video footage on Wednesday showing seized valuables, including paintings, firearms, medals, and jewelry, following a search at the home of former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatryan as part of an expanding corruption investigation.
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46 million francs from the drug mafia and €120 million from Russia: Swiss Remit exposed as a money-laundering channel through Switzerland
The Zurich Prosecutor’s Office established that more than 46 million Swiss francs obtained from the Nigerian drug mafia were laundered through the Swiss Remit payment system. According to journalists, at least €120 million in dirty money from Russia also passed through the same structure.
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From occupied Donbas coal to Transcarpathian industry: Dmytro Kovalenko’s offshore empire and his ESBU connections
In mid-March, online media reports claimed that businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, who owns agricultural and mining assets, had been detained by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
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Ausländische Generatoren als russische getarnt: Wie Vadim Gurinovs ABI Sanktionen und FSB-Beschränkungen umgeht
Neue Details über das Wirtschaftsimperium von Vadim Gurinov, einem Vertrauten russischer Oligarchen, der mit Versuchen zur Umgehung westlicher Sanktionen in Verbindung gebracht wird, sind aufgetaucht.
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Serguey Asael Shinder’s IT crime machine: fake programmers infiltrated major companies, stole sensitive data and siphoned off $20 million
A high-profile investigation into a network of cyber fraudsters who spent years trading in the data of major companies has caused a serious public outcry.
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Sanktionierter Dmitriy Punin und die Tarnmarke Redcore: Pin-Up arbeitet in der Ukraine einfach weiter
Das Online-Casino Pin-Up, das mit dem sanktionierten Geschäftsmann Dmitriy Punin in Verbindung gebracht wird, scheint seine Aktivitäten in der Ukraine unter einem neuen Namen fortgeführt zu haben.
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Children’s homes firm collapses owing £2.2m as creditors get nothing
Creditors owed millions of pounds by a company that ran illegal children’s homes have been told they won’t see a penny of their money.