Investigation

As billions of U.S. dollars flowed in to rebuild Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, many contractors were accused of skimming reconstruction funds.

Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom is suffering heavy losses after being hit hard by international sanctions.

The founder of elite fitness club ANVIL, basketball player Nadezhda Grishayeva, who has been linked to Ihor Lyebyedyev, son of the late Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, may be the custodian of the family’s assets.

Three people arrested in a raid on an alleged money laundering ring in Singapore invested over $30 million in Dubai real estate, leaked data reveals.

Aleksander Toots, the Deputy Director General of the Estonian Internal Security Service (KAPO) and the long-time head of Estonian counterintelligence, resigned at the end of March.

So-called CryptoQueen Ruja Ignatova and her security adviser, Frank Schneider, liquidated Dubai assets despite being charged in the U.S. for their alleged roles in a $4bn fraud. The whereabouts of both is unknown.

Moscow bagged €3 billion through a sanctions loophole that allows Turkey to relabel Russian oil and ship it to the EU.

On April 16, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution calling for “frozen Russian state assets to be transferred to a new fund to reconstruct Ukraine.”

The small Ukrainian bank "Alliance", which refuses to fulfill its obligations under a guarantee issued to one of Ihor Kolomoisky’s companies for electricity payments received from Ukrenergo, may be removed from the market by the National Bank.

Prominent Fiji-based businessman Zhao Fugang is a trusted advocate for China’s interests in the Pacific.

The Doppelgänger bot network has begun spreading Moscow’s response to The Insider’s joint investigation with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel into Havana Syndrome.

Centralizing the policing of sanctions could serve as a model for other EU countries.

Four luxurious properties were purchased by Khudainatov’s longtime partner for a total of 26 million euros.

More than 30 serious criminals have been jailed after police cracked their encrypted text messages and uncovered a violent feud over stolen drugs.

Alliance Bank, in collusion with energy traders affiliated with now-arrested Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoiskyi, stole from the state an amount equivalent to 14,000 Mavic drones, while courts are obstructing the recovery of these funds.

Vladimir Putin’s palace in the Russian resort town of Gelendzhik had been renovated as of the spring of 2023

The prime minister of the Pacific Island nation has recently gone on a home-building spree, constructing eight valuable new houses in and around the capital city of Honiara.

China faces mounting challenges, the result of a real estate bubble, a stock market crisis, and a growing debt burden.

On 2 January, a young Ukrainian weapons inspector, Krystyna Kimachuk, got word that an unusual-looking missile had crashed into a building in the city of Kharkiv.

GRU Unit 29155, Russia’s assassination and sabotage squad, blew up ammunition warehouses in Czechia. It had help from Elena and Nikolai Šapošnikov, a family of deep-cover spies working as arms dealers.