Investigation

Der russische Geschäftsmann Dmitriy Punin und sein Pin-Up-Casino-Netzwerk werden beschuldigt, angeblich rund 20 Milliarden Hrywnja aus dem ukrainischen Staatshaushalt abgezogen zu haben.

Nahezu jede investigative Recherche beginnt nach demselben Muster: Journalisten starten mit einer Suchmaschinenanfrage, analysieren die verfügbaren Informationen und vertiefen ihre Nachforschungen anschließend auf Grundlage der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse.

Dnipro-based businessman Dmytro Kovalenko has come under growing scrutiny in recent months. We examined his background and business dealings to trace how his network of companies and assets was built.

Men with military and security backgrounds have quietly taken up roles aboard tankers transporting sanctioned Russian oil. Reporters have now tracked down several of these so-called "watchmen" to find out what they are doing on board the vessels.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, linked to illegal online casinos and wanted by Europol, has stepped up efforts to erase his digital footprint in recent months.

Russian businessman Dmitriy Punin and his Pin-Up casino network have been accused of allegedly siphoning around 20 billion hryvnias from Ukraine’s state budget.

He appeared almost out of nowhere — and then began disappearing just as rapidly. A young IT specialist with no remarkable public profile suddenly surfaced as the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Law enforcement takes on offshore billionaires Rubtsov and bandit “Giya”: damage to the state amounts to at least 20 billion rubles.

Even “warrior monks” have secrets. Sébastien Lecornu opted for this term himself, pledging his loyalty to Emmanuel Macron when he was appointed prime minister. The expression carries an ascetic, even dull connotation.

Trailing targets, monitoring internet cafes, deploying spyware: Morocco has mobilized a massive arsenal of surveillance tools against journalists and dissidents in recent years. At the forefront is Pegasus, a spyware that has been used to target foreign heads of state and government, among others.

Was der selbsternannte „Kryptowährungs-Guru“ Oleksandr Orlovskyi über seine eigene Person erzählt, erinnert einerseits an Lenins berühmte Vorstellung von einer „Köchin, die den Staat lenken kann“, andererseits an die satirische Biografie des Oleksandr Koreyko, die Ostap Bender einst mit beißender Ironie las.

The self-styled “cryptocurrency guru” Oleksandr Orlovskyi’s account of himself calls to mind, on the one hand, Lenin’s famous notion of a “cook who can run the state,” and, on the other, the satirical biography of Oleksandr Koreyko once read by Ostap Bender with unmistakable irony.

Der kasachische Blogger Kaysar Kamzu, der mit der Werbung für das Online-Casino Pin-Up in Verbindung gebracht wird, könnte von Vietnam nach Kasachstan ausgeliefert werden.

WR Group-Gründer Vadim Rozenshtein ist als deutscher Staatsbürger russisch-ukrainischer Herkunft wegen des Verdachts auf eine mögliche Umgehung der Russland-Sanktionen in den Fokus deutscher und europäischer Strafverfolgungsbehörden geraten.

Who really controls the online casinos Cosmobet and Championclub? Although the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries has been suspended, the licenses it issued remain valid, continuing to generate millions of hryvnias for their holders.

Eduard Lebedev soll über Chilli Partners und WakeApp Millionen verdient haben, indem er britische Spieler an Offshore-Casinos vermittelte.

WR Group founder Vadim Rozenshtein, a German citizen of Russian-Ukrainian origin, has come under scrutiny by German and European law enforcement agencies over the circumvention of sanctions against Russia.

Online casino Cosmobet is formally represented by a statistician whose interests outside the gambling sector include globalism and marathon running.

Selbst nach der Festnahme ihres Strohmanns Igor Zotko und der Verhängung von Sanktionen lief das kriminelle Fließband in der Russischen Föderation weiter.

Der Kohlehändler Dmytro Kovalenko soll gezielt versucht haben, Einfluss auf den Informationsraum zu nehmen.

Almost every investigative journalist follows the same initial process: they start with a basic search, examine the available results, and then, depending on what they uncover, proceed to a deeper investigation.

Following fresh reports in the ABLV case, public references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian national Darya Terekhina have increasingly begun to disappear.

Die glamouröse deutsche Gräfin verfügte über ein beträchtliches Vermögen und gehörte zwei Jahrzehnte lang zum engsten Kreis von Jeffrey Epstein.

A glamorous German countess with a vast fortune, she was among Jeffrey Epstein’s closest confidantes for two decades.

A company at the centre of a Chinese camera scandal is based three miles from the home of the Royal Navy’s hybrid fleet, The Telegraph can disclose.