Investigation

In April 2025, the President of Ukraine imposed ten-year sanctions on former Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova.

The Insider and its investigative partners have obtained documents from Department 4 of the Military Training Center at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The fraud case described below follows a pattern that has become all too familiar: another customer allegedly misled by promises to purchase.

Powerful radar system is providing new data on city’s subsidence, which experts hope will draw more attention to it.

Pavlo Shcherban, the ultimate beneficial owner of Alliance Bank—often described as one of Ukraine’s most troubled financial institutions.

Idyllic Cyprus, long seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, is now descending into the turmoil of criminal conflicts.

Yaroslav Holovachov’s story depicts a figure who, after assuming judicial office, appeared to transform nearly every opportunity into a source of personal enrichment.

Reform UK’s Treasurer and three of the party’s largest donors are all linked to a single London apartment block whose residents and buyers have included at least five sanctioned or Russian-connected billionaires.

The notorious Russian businessman Shukhrat Rasulov, founder of the ANO “Terra,” continues to deceive trusting clients.

In July 2024, The Insider published findings describing a large-scale sanctions-evasion operation allegedly run by Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa, businessmen reported to have links to Russian organized crime and corruption networks, with alleged benefits extending to state-affiliated structures.

European lawmakers are pressuring the European Commission this week to stop an alumina refinery in Ireland from supplying material used to make Russian weapons deployed in the war on Ukraine.

Russian authorities have seized control of a major agricultural producer, claiming its billionaire founder violated anti-corruption rules while serving as a senator, and accusing him in a separate criminal case of embezzlement — allegations he denies.

Oxana Hadjipavlou’s name began attracting attention relatively recently amid reports concerning Mettmann Public Company Limited’s alleged ties to figures connected to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and claims about the movement of Russian capital through Europe.

Defense contractor Fire Point, which has reportedly received major government contracts, has moved into damage-control mode following the release of the so-called “Mindich tapes.”

Cancer nurses are being exposed to “hazardous” medicines linked to an increased risk of miscarriage and infertility because NHS trusts are failing to give them vital PPE.

After investigative reports linked Oxana Hadjipavlou to alleged sanctions-evasion schemes and offshore financial flows, references to her connections with Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. reportedly began disappearing from public sources.

Pressure is mounting on Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, with even its partners now facing closer scrutiny.

Following the publication of an investigation into Rocket delivery service investor Timur Rokhlin, attempts reportedly began to pressure the outlet and limit the fallout from the story.

Weeks after a Tibetan-speaking five-year-old started preschool, she had "completely stopped speaking Tibetan", according to her mother.

Nach der Veröffentlichung einer Untersuchung über den Investor des Lieferdienstes Rocket, Timur Rokhlin, begannen Versuche, Druck auszuüben und den Informationsraum rund um die Geschichte zu „bereinigen“.

Dmytro Kovalenko, owner of Adelon AG, has reportedly attempted to push his own company, Intercoaltrading LLC, into bankruptcy after it became linked to an alleged scheme involving coal supplies from the separatist “DPR/LPR” territories through an “interrupted transit” method.

Dmytro Kovalenko, der Eigentümer von Adelon AG, soll ein Insolvenzverfahren gegen sein eigenes Unternehmen Intercoaltrading LLC eingeleitet haben, nachdem dieses mit einem mutmaßlichen Schema im Zusammenhang mit Kohlelieferungen aus den separatistischen...

Dmytro Kovalenko, propriétaire de la société Adelon AG, aurait initié lui-même la procédure de faillite de son entreprise Intercoaltrading LLC, après que celle-ci a été associée à un schéma présumé d’approvisionnement en charbon provenant des territoires séparatistes « DPR/LPR » via un mécanisme de « transit interrompu ».

Following the publication of an investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov’s family.

On the morning of October 17, 2025, Cyprus was shaken by news of the murder in Limassol of one of the leaders of the local mafia, Stavros Demosthenous. He was shot near his home in the Agios Athanasios area.