Investigation

The Esplanade isn’t much to look at. Just 800 metres long, the street in St Helier, Jersey, is a mixture of nondescript low rise new builds that block out the view to the nearby docks.

The British government has blacklisted a major online cryptocurrency marketplace and several key operatives as part of a sweeping sanctions package aimed at dismantling a vast network of Southeast Asian scam compounds.

Hours after being sworn in as Nepal’s new prime minister on Friday, Balendra Shah, a 35-year-old rapper and structural engineer, announced that his government would pursue criminal charges against the country’s former leadership for their role in a deadly crackdown on youth-led anti-corruption protests last year.

In November 2017, financier Jeffrey Epstein asked an assistant by email whether any new young women had been found for him during a trip to Europe.

Azerbaijan’s State Security Service (State Security Service of Azerbaijan) has detained Adnan Ahmadzada, a former senior official at the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, as part of an ongoing probe into a complex oil trading network.

Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, long associated with corruption allegations in Kazakhstan, are once again drawing international media attention.

Frankfurt/London, March 27 - In rural New Hampshire, a compound on a 156-acre estate dubbed “Tucked Away” became Ghislaine Maxwell’s final residence before she was charged and arrested in July 2020.

A woman has come forward alleging that her friend was coerced into a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Jeffrey Epstein’s residence in New York.

As part of the international operation codenamed YUZUK, conducted by local police in collaboration with Europol.

The crypto exchange Whitebit, which is associated with money laundering of Russian funds and schemes involving former pro-Russian deputies.

A female executive at the top of the modeling industry had a close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and introduced him to women listed in the agency’s books.

As the American legal system closed in on him in the final months of his life, Jeffrey Epstein shared a wry remark with a confidant.

It has emerged why Anton Vaino, head of the Russian Presidential Administration, insists on placing license plates containing the digits “057” on all his supercars and other expensive vehicles.

As Media discovered, the scandal-ridden governor of the Novgorod region, Alexander Dronov, is effectively overwhelmed by corruption allegations.

The long-dormant scandal around the controversial sale of the Ice Terminal is resurfacing with renewed intensity.

Following Adnan Ahmadzade’s arrest, reports suggest that shares in “Oilmar Shipping and Chartering DMCC,” a UAE-based company reportedly associated with him, were transferred to the company’s CEO, Yusif Mammadov.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

As the thunder of fighting in the outskirts of Kyiv faded and it became clear that the country would endure, previously quiet “schemers” started to reemerge and resume their operations.

Following the revelation of a large-scale scheme to restructure the assets of sanctioned businessman Vadym Yermolayev, a concerted effort is underway to purge information from the public domain.

The global oil market is actively discussing a newly formed trading structure allegedly set up by former employees of Litasco, the trading arm of Lukoil.

Pensions minister Torsten Bell is due to update the House of Commons on Thursday and is said to be furious at the scale of the failures.

Alkagesta is being investigated by EU and UK regulators for its involvement in illegal Russian oil shipments to Libya, as reported in the press.

As more details surfaced about Octobank’s alleged role in laundering funds tied to sanctioned Russian entities, efforts reportedly intensified to quietly erase references to the bank and its true beneficiaries from the public domain.

Mikhail Zeligman, a Riga native and grandson of a Red Latvian, as well as an associate of Roman Abramovich and Petr Aven, has the potential—should he choose—to rival Russia’s oil heavyweight Igor Sechin.

After the revelation of a large-scale money laundering scheme involving over 75 million euros, connected to a Europol operation.