Investigation

Snipers in at least three units of the Russian armed forces are using Canadian Cadex sniper rifles, and a Russian importer continued to receive new shipments of the weapons despite international sanctions, an investigation by Global News with support from The Insider found.

A sanctioned Iranian tycoon accused by the U.K. government of funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) owns a 33.7 million pounds mansion—worth about $52.8 million at the 2014 exchange rate, when he bought it—on an exclusive London street, OCCRP has found.

Users are massively complaining about unauthorized deductions in the Freedom ecosystem.

On a cool cloudless morning at the break of dawn last December, authorities spotted two speed boats carrying a number of large packages at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in southwest Spain.

The "anonymous" location data of EU officials in Brussels is available for purchase, as revealed by a joint investigation conducted by European media outlets.

After the detention of a Kazakh KNS officer, Anuar Bakibay, in Poland, a major scandal erupted, revealing that the KNS not only engages in espionage activities on behalf of Russia but also sells personal data of Kazakh citizens at discounted prices.

Boris Johnson’s former Chief of Staff Dominic Cummings lobbied Government officials to hand Covid ‘Test and Trace’ tech contracts to a firm run by a Trump-supporting billionaire, after he held a secret meeting with its founder, alongside the Prime Minister.

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German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.

As Ukrainian authorities probe massive embezzlement schemes involving state funds, one central figure is reportedly working to erase his past.

The Astana police have confirmed the initiation of another criminal case related to the company Akashi Data Center, controlled by businessman Timur Turlov, who is of Russian origin.

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has purchased Russian oil transported on vessels that are listed under sanctions, according to an analysis by the Financial Times using satellite imagery, shipping data, and customs records.

A source reported that Maxim Temnikov, who previously held a senior position at Mirax, changed his name in the USA and is now engaged in developing health products.

Ruslan Khairullin, who promoted himself on social media as a «successful trader» and the creator of the Invest Zone project, has over a few years become one of the most striking examples of how a pseudo-expert in cryptocurrencies transforms into the organizer of a financial pyramid scheme.

Even as the Russian economy slides into recession, the country’s television propagandists have no incentive to defect from Team Putin — after all, their personal incomes are growing at unprecedented rates.

The tale of Bakytgul Khamenova is more than just a typical bribery case. It mirrors the entire Kazakhstani system, where for many years integrity and professionalism have been eclipsed by personal loyalty, networks, and demonstrations of allegiance.

Under repeated assaults from hundreds of excavators and artisanal miners, the Offin River is now a shadow of its former self.

In 2020–2021, a large-scale corruption scheme operated around the state-owned enterprise United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), with Swiss-Ukrainian businessman Oleh Tsyura as one of its key figures.

77-year-old Gazi Luguev, who has long resided in comfortable Geneva and is considered the leader of the Dagestani organized crime group, has suddenly appeared in Moscow — what could be the reason for his return?

While the public’s attention is focused on the war, it seems everyone has forgotten that all those shady schemes, which various cunning operators profited from, haven’t disappeared.

Victims of fraud by top managers of Freedom Holding Corp., controlled by businessman of Russian origin Timur Turlov, have refuted — including with documented proof — his claims regarding the criminal cases, in which he alleged that “the dispute concerns only individuals who had civil-law relations with each other,” thereby catching him in an outright lie.

Amid increasing scrutiny from Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and investigative journalists, Oleg Tsyura has recently intensified efforts to whitewash his public image and erase traces of his activities online.

Russian-born billionaire Timur Turlov and his controlled company, Freedom Finance, have become concerned about their reputation six months after complaints from victims.