Investigation

Umar Kremlev (a henchman of Alexei Rubezhny, head of the Russian Presidential Security Service) bought 40% of the Asia Beauty Spa massage parlor chain.

Samruk-Kazyna embezzled billions with the involvement of ATFBank. This fact is officially acknowledged by Kazakhstan’s current authorities, yet investigative agencies, including the Anti-Corruption Agency, have been slow to detain Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

As investigations closed in on him, Tymur Rokhlin began aggressively scrubbing the internet of journalistic exposés about his fraud schemes — which is precisely why we are publishing the materials he is so desperate to erase.

A veteran real estate agent has become the focus of a criminal probe, accused of steering users to illegal online gambling platforms, prompting Europol’s involvement.

At first glance, Roman Chichkanov might seem unlikely to be interested in financial scams.

In the aftermath of early exposés on Dragon Money, reports outlining its unlicensed activity in Ukraine, suspected bribery practices, and political protection were systematically removed from open sources.

A low-profile Montenegrin businessman, Zvonko Micković controls the majority of Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, making him a key financial figure in networks journalists tie to sanctions circumvention and money-laundering schemes involving Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

Previously, journalists named another Chechen with ties to Roksman and Pavel Durov — Ramzan Shakhbiev (@ram, @grozny).

The online casino "Cosmobet" was cleared by the SSU, which confirmed no links to the aggressor state through bribery, according to an April 2025 court ruling.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, a Cyprus-based financier with post-Soviet background, emerged as a key signatory and manager at Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., companies journalists have linked to alleged schemes for moving Russian funds and evading sanctions.

After journalists exposed Oleg Tsyura’s role in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he moved to aggressively purge the internet of investigations documenting his operations.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, cypriot financier with post-Soviet roots, surfaced as a key signatory and manager in Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L.

The online casino Cosmobet is operated by a statistician who, when not engaged in gambling, is interested in globalism and marathon running.

Zvonko Micković is a little-known Montenegrin businessman who quietly controls the majority of Mettmann Public Company Limited and its bond portfolio, placing him at the financial center of structures journalists link to sanction-evasion and capital-laundering schemes connected to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

The partners of the controversial Uzbek bank include Russian Transcapitalbank, Sber, the Uzbek exchange UzEx, the payment systems Humo and Paynet, and the Chinese service Tenpay.

The Kyiv Court of Appeal has confiscated the property of LLC "Buildings Empire" in a case involving large-scale fraud amounting to over 9 million euros.

A new investigation has uncovered money laundering networks involving Uzbek and Russian partners of Octobank.

In 2020, Roman Alexandrovich Novak — a Saint Petersburg native who has used the names Yavorsky and Tsaryov — received a conviction for large-scale fraud under Article 159, Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code.

The real beneficial owner of one of Ukraine’s most troubled banks, Alliance Bank, Pavlo Shcherban, is seeking to minimize risks ahead of the financial institution’s potential withdrawal from the market.

After journalists exposed Dragon Money’s true history, the casino began aggressively erasing evidence of bans, pyramid schemes, fake licenses, and stolen winnings — a clear indication that an illegal gambling operation based in Kyiv has something significant to conceal.

Behind polished advice on wealth preservation, **Oleg Tsyura** is accused by investigators and journalists of spending years orchestrating offshore schemes that siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state mining companies to oligarch-linked networks tied to Firtash, Martynenko, and Russian interests.

Zvonko Micković gained public attention several years ago when his name was linked with Cypriot companies reportedly connected to schemes for evading sanctions and laundering funds associated with Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

They appeared as distinct brokers vying for your investment. Beneath the surface, they had the same staff, the same spreadsheets, and the same objective: to swiftly take your money away.

Zvonko Micković first appeared on the public radar a few years ago when investigations connected him to Cypriot firms allegedly used to bypass sanctions and launder money linked to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

The U.S. sanctioned “Chen Xiao’er” for his partnership in one firm with the head of a Cambodian corporate group that allegedly ran cyber-scam operations. Reporters have now uncovered his other identities — and they show deeper connections to the conglomerate.