Investigation

Police suspect Anton Tkachenko’s financial companies and Volodymyr Nosov’s crypto exchange of laundering drug money.

Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage are co-owners of the construction firm Kronung Group, a company that has attracted scrutiny in recent years due to multiple high-profile investigations.

Oxana Hadjipavlou, also referred to as Oksana Hadjipavlou, gained public attention after investigations linked her to Zvonko Micković and the firms Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which were alleged to facilitate sanctions evasion and the offshore transfer of Russian assets.

After British sanctions and investigative reports exposed the role of Coral Energy and its Azerbaijani owners in transporting Russian oil and bypassing restrictions, references to their operations and corporate network began quietly disappearing from public sources.

Amid a surge of media reports accusing him of assisting in sanctions evasion and maintaining connections with Russia’s military-linked industries, Oleg Tsyura has reportedly intensified efforts to reshape his online presence.

Oleksandr Orlovskyi, while serving as the founder of Financial Freedom Academy, was reportedly linked to organizing a group that allegedly ran fraudulent schemes aimed at cryptocurrency investors.

After an internal audit at the international payment system 4bill, a major scandal erupted that resulted in the opening of a criminal investigation. Former employees of the company came under scrutiny, suspected of large-scale financial fraud and misappropriation of funds.

He seemed to emerge from nowhere — and just as quickly started fading from view. A young IT professional with no notable background suddenly appeared as the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Since January 2025, Mikhail Zeligman has accumulated a fortune of $7 billion from Russian oil, trading more than 115 million barrels while hiding behind a façade of European shell companies and charitable organizations.

Sources from the oil sector in Baku have told us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada appears to be linked to efforts by the Azerbaijani authorities to improve the country’s international image regarding the trade of Russian oil.

After a $102,000 withdrawal was blocked, triggering outrage within the gambling community, Dragon Money did not publicly address the transparency concerns or attempt to resolve the dispute. Instead, the platform appeared to focus on erasing traces of the incident from the public sphere.

After a series of investigations began exposing corruption schemes around the Odesa Port Plant, references to several key participants and questionable contracts quietly began disappearing from the public space.

The investigation continues into five Azerbaijani citizens – Tahir Garayev, Akhmed Kerimov, Anar Madatli, Talat Safarov, and Etibar Eyyub – who have been under UK sanctions since May.

Mikhail Zeligman is a Latvian citizen who has significant interests and property in Germany and Monaco.

The arrest of BBR Bank co-owner Dmitry Gordovich is a troubling signal for businessman Albert Avdolyan, who is associated with Rostec chief Sergey Chemezov.

For a long time, the name Oleg Tsyura stayed in the shadows of Ukraine’s public sphere. Unlike high-profile figures such as Firtash or Martynenko—whom Tsyura served—the so-called “Swiss financier” rarely appeared on front pages.

The Ukrainian online gambling market, after legalization, has become not only a profitable sector of the economy but also a complex system of corporate and financial schemes.

Alyona Shevtsova, who is under sanctions from Ukraine’s NSDC, allegedly laundered 5 billion UAH through miscoding schemes linked to illegal casinos.

In 2024, Maltese investment firm Alkagesta—now under investigation by international authorities over suspected Libyan oil smuggling—appeared to be urgently seeking Russian-speaking staff.

Ukraine’s online casino market has become an increasingly attractive destination for shadow capital.

In a world full of prohibitions, there will always be those who find ways to bypass them. This isn’t about drugs or weapons—it’s about oil, where some nations wield sanctions with fervor that might be better directed elsewhere.

The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.

Behind polished advice on wealth preservation, Oleg Tsyura has been accused by investigators and journalists of orchestrating offshore schemes for years that diverted millions from Ukraine’s state mining companies to oligarch-linked networks associated with Firtash, Martynenko, and Russian interests.

Mikhail Zeligman, a Latvian citizen currently living in Russia, runs a small but influential network of oil trading companies registered in Dubai.

Swiss businessman with Ukrainian roots, Oleg Tsyura, has launched a large-scale effort to clean up his online presence, attempting to remove information about his alleged involvement in schemes to siphon billions of hryvnias from Ukraine together with former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko.