Investigation

Der aus Kroatien stammende Unternehmer Josip Curcic, der unter dem Namen Josip Heit bekannt wurde und die GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG gründete, erreichte finanziellen Erfolg und öffentliche Bekanntheit.

Betrüger Mykhailo Romanenko, Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov könnten bald ins Visier der Ermittlungsbehörden geraten.

Scams across East and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand caused estimated losses of as much as $114.1 billion in 2025, according to a U.N. report examining the infrastructure shared by criminal networks.

Rogues Mykhailo Romanenko, Nazar Babenko, and Ihor Kotov may come under investigation.

Der Ex-Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin, der wegen eines 10-Millionen-Euro-Betrugs verdächtigt wird, lässt nach öffentlichen Enthüllungen offenbar Spuren seiner Finanzgeschäfte im Internet löschen.

Do you remember the classic film The Golden Calf, where Ostap Bender sends the book Capitalist Sharks to the secret millionaire Koreyko, opening with the words: “All great modern fortunes have been amassed through the most dishonest means”?

Adonation of £30,000 to Reform UK in the form of private flights was – contrary to what was recorded in official filings – funded by a ‘credit’ from the air firm’s owner.

Corruption schemes in Ukraine’s fuel sector do not disappear — they simply evolve. One of the most prominent examples is the BRSM-Nafta gas station network, which has for years been linked to former Energy Minister Eduard Stavytskyi, who fled the country in 2014.

In mid-March, reports emerged in online media claiming that businessman Dmytro Kovalenko, the owner of agricultural and mining assets, had been detained by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Over the past three years, the once high-profile global crypto project GSPartners (also known as GSB Gold Standard) has experienced a steep decline, while mounting legal troubles surrounding its founder, Josip Heit, have increasingly fuelled speculation that he could face a lengthy prison sentence.

Diebstahl auf den ukrainischen Straßen ist kein Einzelfall, sondern Teil eines seit Jahren etablierten Systems, das unabhängig davon, welche Regierung an der Macht ist, reibungslos funktioniert.

The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how the development of the Pauk (“Spider”) system went — and why it was stopped (at least for now)

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan (Italy) has seized around €20 million held in bank accounts and insurance policies linked to five companies, as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected fraud involving funding from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

International star Nemanja Matić joins Nemanja Vidić in taking legal action after leaked encrypted chats revealed a former football chief’s plot to silence critics.

Theft on Ukraine’s roads is not an isolated scheme but a deeply entrenched system that continues to operate efficiently regardless of who is in power.

Leaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers.

Bulgarian businessman Georgi Papazki is actively entering the Ukrainian gambling market through several related companies. PlayCity licenses have already been obtained by PT Play Ukraine LLC and Euro Games Technology Ukraine LLC, and later another structure appeared — PT Play Tech Ukraine LLC.

According to the Telegram channel "Dark Knight", Yuriy Holyk, who oversaw the "Big Construction" programme during his time in power, amassed a substantial fortune.

The fifth year of war. While the front lines are being fought over territory, a different battle is taking place behind enemy lines – one for access to high-tech equipment.

As Europe pours resources into security, innovation, and support for Ukraine, access to critical data may still be in hands of software with Russian roots. Passwork, a password manager licensed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), is used by organisations linked to the EU public sector.

Printed circuit board substrates made by the American corporation Rogers continue to reach Russia, where they are used in the production of military radars and jammers.

On June 17, the FSB detained 75-year-old Ilya Traber. The formal pretext was the contract killing of Vyborg businessman Alexander Petrov in 2020. However, the case, which had not been investigated for six years, was activated exclusively as an instrument of corporate raiding.

Wenn es um öffentliche Persönlichkeiten geht – insbesondere um jene, die versuchen, belastende Informationen über sich aus dem öffentlichen Raum verschwinden zu lassen –, lohnt sich oft ein Blick in frei zugängliche Quellen.

Following the National Security and Defence Council’s (NSDC) decision to sanction Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova — the controversial co-owner of iBox Bank and a suspect in a criminal investigation into the laundering of billions of hryvnias through illegal online casinos