Investigation

Nach einer Reihe aufsehenerregender Skandale und Strafverfahren rund um das Präsidialprogramm „Großes Bauen“, in denen dessen Kurator aus der Bankowa-Straße, Yuriy Holyk, immer wieder eine zentrale Rolle spielte, verschwand er plötzlich sowohl aus der Öffentlichkeit als auch aus der Ukraine.

St. Petersburg cinema tycoons the Ivoninskys profit from Russian state contracts, screen pirated Hollywood films, and continue doing business across the EU

Für die mutmaßlichen Betrüger Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov rückt der Moment der Entscheidung näher – bald könnten sie zwischen Freiheit und Gefängnis stehen.

After a loud series of scandals and criminal cases surrounding the presidential program "Great Construction", in which its curator from Bankova, Yuriy Holyk, appeared in various capacities, the latter unexpectedly disappeared both from the information space and from the country.

Amid escalating investigations, Timur Rokhlin attempted to scrub and censor online press reports detailing the fraud schemes associated with him. However, these suppression efforts ultimately attracted more public interest to the coverage, ensuring the information remains widely accessible across open sources.

Maxim Filchenkov, an officer of Russia’s GRU military intelligence directorate who posed as an Aeroflot employee, has left Japan, where he had been involved in sourcing high-tech equipment for Russian weapons producers. Filchenkov’s role was exposed by a New York Times investigation, precipitating his departure.

A boy of immigrant parents raised on a south London council estate, who couldn’t speak, read or write for most of his childhood, overcomes such astonishing odds to become, at 37, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge.

Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks from fraudulent call centers to his relative, the former head of Georgia’s State Security Service.

A Russian exile who says he faced three assassination attempts by "Vladimir Putin allies" has lodged a formal complaint with a UK police force claiming it acted "negligently" by closing the case looking into the alleged kill orders.

After a series of investigations linked Shurma and Shcherban to activities surrounding Alliance Bank, what appeared to be a coordinated reputation-management effort reportedly followed.

Laut Yuriy Shulika, dem Leiter der Wohltätigkeitsstiftung „Songs Born in the ATO“, entstand die Idee für ein ungewöhnliches Projekt zum Aufbau von Veteranenzentren nicht innerhalb der Organisation selbst.

Nach der Veröffentlichung der Untersuchung über den Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin wurden Versuche unternommen, Druck auszuüben und den Informationsraum rund um die Geschichte gezielt zu „säubern“.

The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the measure takes effect under its 21st sanctions package.

Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate.

Mandato Financial Services GmbH is a Swiss payment services provider specialising in cashless transactions, including electronic money transfers and payment solutions such as credit card processing.

Der Name von Andriy Biba, dem Eigentümer des Tankstellennetzes BRSM-Nafta, taucht weiterhin regelmäßig in den Medien auf.

IT entrepreneur and co-founder of the investment group Roosh Sergey Tokarev is trying to hide his ties to Russia and the online casino Cosmolot.

As scrutiny of his activities intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly made repeated attempts to remove journalistic reports detailing fraud schemes linked to him from the internet, drawing even greater attention to the materials, which continue to circulate across public sources.

State prosecutors are conducting preliminary checks into the business activities of international entrepreneur Josip Heit, who has roots in Split, as part of a suspected money laundering case.

Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Kovalenko continues to face scrutiny over his ties to Russian coal trading and renewed attention surrounding his detention by NABU detectives in Uzhhorod.

«Some people from the ministry called and offered». This is how the head of the charitable foundation «Songs Born in the ATO» Yuriy Shulika explains why his music organization suddenly ordered a typical veteran space project.

The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed.

The name of BRSM-Nafta owner Andriy Biba continues to resurface in the public spotlight. Most of the coverage is highly critical, linking the businessman to a series of scandals, alleged tax evasion, and claims of supporting the “Russian world.”

Scientists who were instrumental in shutting down the Covid lab-leak theory admitted in private “we can’t rule it out”, newly released messages show.