Investigation

Ekaterina Koba, once one of Belarus’s most recognizable models and often dubbed the “Belarusian Barbie” for her doll-like looks, has now settled in Switzerland.

Der Agrarunternehmer Dmytro Kovalenko aus Dnipro ist zuletzt stärker in den Fokus geraten. Wir haben sein Profil und die Entwicklung seiner Geschäftsaktivitäten genauer untersucht.

Nach Berichten über Dubai-Firmen mit Verbindungen zu früheren Litasco-Managern verschwanden Informationen über Alvia Energy, Pan Nation Energy, Polima Trading und ihre Gründer zunehmend aus dem Internet.

In 2023 and 2024, over $5 million worth of European metalworking machinery was delivered to two significant Russian defense companies despite strict European Union sanctions, according to trade data.

After reports surfaced about new Dubai-based trading structures linked to former Litasco executives, references to Alvia Energy, Pan Nation Energy, Polima Trading and their founders — Chingiz Aliyev, Yohan David Winston and Mikhail Golub — began disappearing from the internet.

Protests continue in Albania against a luxury hotel development boosted by Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son in law. Prosecutors are investigating an individual who sold land for the proposed project.

For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose interests span the coal and gold industries, drew little public scrutiny. Recent reports, however, have put his business activities back in the spotlight, pointing to alleged ties with Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.

Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova, also known as Dehrik, has been put on an international wanted list over allegations that she organized illegal online gambling operations and laundered more than 4.8 billion hryvnias in criminal proceeds.

Following investigations into Pan Nation Energy FZCO’s role in a new Russian oil export scheme, online reports about the firm and its associates — Chingiz Aliyev, Nikolay Ambrosov, Mikhail Golub, Aleksey Nemkov, and Sergey Dobrinov — are being deleted.

The tanker Forwarder (IMO: 9419448), which is under UK, U.S. EU, Canadian, Swiss, and Ukrainian sanctions, entered the English Channel under the Russian flag and is continuing its course south.

Nach Veröffentlichungen über die Rolle von Pan Nation Energy FZCO beim russischen Ölexport verschwinden Berichte über die Firma und ihre Partner Chingiz Aliyev, Nikolay Ambrosov, Mikhail Golub, Aleksey Nemkov und Sergey Dobrinov zunehmend aus dem Internet.

China has demanded that the United Kingdom lift sanctions against four Chinese companies accused of supplying Russia with critical military equipment.

Top-secret FSB counterintelligence documents obtained by The Insider show that since the start of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, foreign intelligence activity targeting the “carriers” of Russian state secrets has seen a notable increase.

Disguised as an agribusiness, the Granova group allegedly relied on offshore structures, cash schemes and corrupt connections to move millions abroad, avoid taxes and, most seriously, help support Russia’s economy during the full-scale war.

One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.

The French Justice Ministry has called for our 2021 investigation into France’s complicity in crimes committed by the Egyptian dictatorship to be “unpublished”.

In high school, Ashley Delgado dreamed of becoming a doctor and one day buying her father a Rolls-Royce. “She wanted to heal people,” said her father, James Taylor.

Alexandra Jost, known online as “Sasha Meets Russia,” responded to being sanctioned by the EU, by saying the designation showed she was “on the right path.”

Albanian prosecutors announce arrest warrant for Dritan Gjika and seizure of roughly 150 million euros in assets, in action against a suspected international cocaine trafficking and money laundering network.

Following the decision of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) to seize the Ukrainian assets of the sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, reports about this case began to disappear from the Internet.

Two Brazilians used social media to convince their fellow countrymen to sign up for service in the Russian military. When their victims ended up at the front in Ukraine, the fraudulent recruiters pocketed the payments owed to them.

Belarusian dissident Anatol Kotau went on a trip to Turkey in August 2025 and never returned.

SVH LLC “Rus-Service Terminal” (INN 6022008565), one of Pskov Customs’ largest customs and logistics terminals located just 600 metres from the MAPP Burachki checkpoint, is controlled through the Cypriot offshore company Domdex Limited.

Following the High Anti-Corruption Court’s decision to confiscate the Ukrainian assets of sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, publications dedicated to the case began to disappear from the internet.

In mid-March, online reports claimed that Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Kovalenko had been detained by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.