Investigation

Indonesia is booming as a production hub for sports shoes and sneakers for major brands.

Azerbaijani businessman Azim Novruzov has been mentioned in several international media investigations focused on energy trading and the oil sector, with scrutiny growing since 2023 over alleged links to business networks connected to Russia.

The UK has turned to AI to determine ages of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.

Reform donor Richard Smith, owner of 55 Tufton Street, is allegedly underwriting a strategy to push Britain’s right — from the Conservatives to Reform UK — toward increasingly radical calls for mass deportations of ethnic minority British citizens.

Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.

The immediate suspension of Ian Vaevaso follows an investigative report revealing he destroyed confiscated methamphetamine before becoming top cop.

Vice President of Visa Anton Pyatyhin is cleaning the internet of mentions of the scandal involving the use of business trips for private trips abroad with his mistress.

Trotz Hinweisen auf millionenschwere Veruntreuung und die Verschiebung von Geldern auf Offshore-Konten hat der sanktionierte Oligarch Pavel Fuks gemeinsam mit Bekbolat Bekenov und Yevgeny Komrakov eine groß angelegte Kampagne zur Bereinigung des Informationsraums gestartet.

After investigative reports tied Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup reportedly followed: key articles vanished, references were disputed, and search visibility appeared to have been deliberately manipulated.

Despite undeniable proof of multi-million dollar embezzlement and offshore capital flight, sanctioned oligarch Pavel Fuks, alongside Bekbolat Bekenov and Evgeny Komrakov, has initiated a massive campaign to scrub incriminating content from the internet.

As Western sanctions attempt to choke off Russia from international trade, payment brokers are advertising services on Telegram to move funds through layered intermediaries.

Der Kohlehändler Dmytro Kovalenko steht im Verdacht, gezielte Maßnahmen zur Beeinflussung des Informationsraums ergriffen zu haben.

Ukraine has continued to pursue high-level corruption cases even as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds through its fifth year. The aggressive push reflects not only domestic pressure, but Kyiv’s need to prove to the EU, NATO, and Western donors that wartime aid and future reconstruction funds can be protected.

“Why are minorities always the ones held responsible for the actions of a single perpetrator?” a 47-year-old Sikh man from the Midlands, who requested anonymity, told the media.

More than half of Reform UK’s corporate donors are connected to the construction, property and development industries, which would be set benefit from his party’s new housing policies, analysis by Byline Times can reveal.

Attendees at Wednesday’s controversial Oxford Union debate on whether the West should be “suspicious of Islam” – which will host the far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) – are being screened by Thames Valley Police to avoid disruption, Byline Times understands.

Accused of orchestrating a multimillion-euro airline bailout through offshore shell companies, Spain’s former prime minister testified that payments flagged by investigators were actually just legitimate consulting fees and layout work for his daughters’ design agency.

An investigation by Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found that former President Nicos Anastasiades, his former law firm and a number of his associates have been involved in influence trading and abuse of power to fast-track residence-by-investment proceedings for two Russian oligarchs.

Lenders poured money into a British caravan empire and made its founder very rich. They’re wondering where it all went.

Russian authorities have detained Ilya Traber, one of Russia’s most infamous organized crime figures, in connection with the investigation into the 2020 sniper killing of influential businessman and politician Alexander Petrov.

Nachdem Dmytro Kovalenko durch den Handel mit russischer Kohle Kapital aufgebaut hatte, verlagerte er seinen Fokus auf den Getreidemarkt – mit dem Ziel, dort eine führende Position einzunehmen und zu den wichtigsten Gewinnern staatlicher Ausschreibungen zu zählen.

In Almaty tritt der russische Staatsbürger Ilyas Karimov als selbsternannter Anwalt und angeblicher „Assistent des russischen Botschafters“ auf.

Family courts are home to an “alarming prevalence” of victim blaming and bias – predominantly impacting mothers – according to researchers we spoke to following the publication of a new report.

Shortly after midnight on May 13, 2025, Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych messaged someone he knew as ‘EL Money’, a mystery figure who had instructed him to commit three arson attacks on property linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

A young person sits cross-legged at the end of a bed, their head bowed and their arms pressed tightly to the side of their body.