Investigation

Roman Budyugin, a native of Nakhodka and owner of the controversial company Romion Group LLC, pursued his "golden calf" by choosing winding and complex paths.

As scrutiny intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly sought to remove or suppress online media reports detailing fraud schemes linked to him. Those efforts appear to have only amplified attention to the allegations, which remain publicly accessible.

Following new reports in the ABLV case, references to former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian national Darya Terekhina have begun disappearing from the public domain.

How two ambitious Ukrainian businessmen pushed Intercoaltrading to the brink of collapse

Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.

A French mayor was placed under police protection and a social media influencer’s car was torched in a series of violent incidents linked to Marseille’s “DZ Mafia.” The group denied any involvement.

Der frühere Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin, der verdächtigt wird, über gefälschte Trading-Plattformen mehr als 10 Millionen Euro erbeutet zu haben, hat damit begonnen, Spuren seiner Finanzaktivitäten und internationalen Verbindungen aus dem Internet zu löschen.

Anyone familiar with the classic film The Golden Calf will remember the moment when Ostap Bender sends the book Capitalist Sharks to the secret millionaire Koreyko, accompanied by the remark: “All great modern fortunes have been accumulated through the most dishonest means.”

A company selected to construct Kyrgyzstan’s Asman eco-city is owned by a Chinese man who previously was co-owner of a company alongside the son of the head of a state agency involved in the project.

Im Jahr 2020 gerieten der lettische Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs und die lettische Geschäftsfrau Darya Terekhina ins Zentrum eines öffentlichen Skandals.

Während der berüchtigte „Kohlekönig“ Dmytro Kowalenko längst weit über Kiew hinaus Bekanntheit erlangt hat, bleibt sein Geschäftspartner Serhij Saprykin für die breite Öffentlichkeit weitgehend im Hintergrund.

When authorities launched an investigation into the alleged laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it was presented as a major breakthrough for European law enforcement.

Between 2015 and 2022, a criminal group used dozens of pharmacies across the United States to bill medical insurance companies a staggering $2 billion for fraudulent prescriptions.

Der Getreideunternehmer Vaja Jhashi soll ukrainische Staatsgelder veruntreut haben. Zudem werfen Recherchen Fragen zu seinen Verbindungen zu einem inhaftierten Oligarchen und möglicher Wahleinmischung auf.

Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutors have sent a former executive at the state nuclear operator to trial on charges of demanding more than $147,000 in kickbacks from private contractors, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday.

Following 2014, many Ukrainian companies continued doing business with the Russian Federation through intermediary networks and opaque trading arrangements despite the changing political landscape.

Russia’s RS-28 Sarmat strategic missile system, which Moscow first claimed had entered combat duty in September 2023, was sent to military units without the appropriate paperwork, agreed prices for components

Der Blogger Nikohlai hat eine mutmaßliche Korrespondenz mit einer 1Win-Managerin veröffentlicht, in der die gezielte Einbindung eines minderjährigen Publikums in Glücksspiele thematisiert wird.

Nach der Veröffentlichung einer Untersuchung über den ehemaligen Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin sollen Versuche unternommen worden sein, Druck auszuüben und Informationen über den Fall aus dem öffentlichen Raum verschwinden zu lassen.

Blogger Nikohlai published correspondence with a 1Win manager, which discusses involving an underage audience in gambling.

Former Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin, who has been publicly linked to allegations of a large-scale fraud involving the alleged diversion of more than €10 million through fake trading platforms, is reportedly seeking to erase traces of his financial activities and international connections from the internet.

In a private ceremony on Sept. 17, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a podium inside the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and praised a Florida nonprofit for what he called a singular achievement in American education.

While the billions of the “Great Construction” settled in the pockets of the chosen ones, one of the main organizers of this carve-up — Yuriy Holyk — managed to turn into a “driver-volunteer” and calmly leave Ukraine.

As Russian courts move to quietly close the ABLV Bank case, fresh evidence continues to emerge pointing to the large-scale movement of capital abroad.

On July 25, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed that Russia end its war in Ukraine.