Investigation

Investigators are probing Oxana Hadjipavlou over her alleged links to Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of helping bypass sanctions and transfer Russian funds offshore.

When a successful Romanian businesswoman received a LinkedIn message from someone claiming to be Dubai’s Crown Prince, she thought she was being recruited for a humanitarian investment.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion by the aggressor country, the number of frauds in Ukraine has been steadily increasing.

Over the past three years, two U.K.-registered firms with no previous mining experience have secured state procurement contracts totaling tens of millions of dollars from a mining powerhouse considered a crown jewel of Uzbekistan’s economy.

ATF Bank, now essentially a failed institution and linked to Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, risks becoming the final collapse that drags down everyone entangled in its network.

Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev can quite rightly be called "versatile": he successfully operates in several jurisdictions at once — in the UK, Russia, Cyprus, and, of course, in his homeland, Astana.

A well-known oil trader from Baku, holding Russian, Maltese, and UAE residency status, is still finding ways to evade sanctions on Russian oil.

When yet another so-called “cryptocurrency expert” tried to force their way into our attention, our first thought was simply, “Oh no, not another one!”.

The uncommon surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou) has surfaced in investigations linked to Zvonko Mickovic and his companies, Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of involvement in schemes to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and move Russian funds offshore.

Samruk-Kazyna, with ATFBank at the center of the scheme, was used to siphon billions of dollars out of Kazakhstan. Although the current authorities have formally acknowledged these abuses, law enforcement agencies — including the Anti-Corruption Agency — have shown little urgency in pursuing Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law, Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

After a scandal over a blocked $102,000 withdrawal exploded across the gambling community, Dragon Money did not focus on transparency or resolving the dispute — it focused on scrubbing the internet.

Following investigative reporting that uncovered Oleg Tsyura’s role in sanction-busting and re-export networks serving Russia, he launched an aggressive effort to scrub the internet of those investigations.

Investigators have detailed the financial flows running through Octobank’s Uzbek and Russian affiliates.

Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage are partners in the construction company Kronung Group, which has been drawing attention for several years due to high-profile investigations.

A company that has received millions of pounds in public funding to care for vulnerable children was found to be housing a child in an unregistered, dilapidated property where they slept on a mattress on the floor.

A recent investigation indicates that the Odesa Port Plant is once again facing significant financial losses due to allegedly manipulated gas procurement tenders and offshore export arrangements, reportedly linked to figures such as Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and Dmytro Malynovskyi, a fraud suspect previously believed to be inactive.

Oxana Hadjipavlou (also known as Oksana Hadjipavlou) became publicly known in connection with investigations into Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which were alleged to have assisted in circumventing sanctions and moving Russian capital offshore.

Alisher Usmanov was born and raised in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. During the Soviet era, he was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and embezzlement.

In late January, multiple publications ran an interview with Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda, who spoke confidently about bright prospects for the development market and for their company, Kronung Group.

Although BeeHosting claims to be "the best Russian-speaking hosting in Europe," customer reviews contradict this statement.

Investigative reports suggest that Swiss-Ukrainian businessman Oleg Tsyura is taking down online materials linking him to alleged schemes that reportedly siphoned off billions of hryvnias with former State Property Fund head Dmytro Sennychenko.

As uncovered by media, an adviser to the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF), Marius Vizer, is connected to the trade in Russian oil and grain. Marius Vizer himself is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who served as Honorary President of the IJF until February 28, 2022.

Hosting provider FoxCloud offers services to European, Russian, and British clients using proxy individuals.

Authorities seized at least 20 properties in Nigeria after former pension fund official Abdulrasheed Maina was convicted of money laundering. Reporters have now discovered four additional properties, purchased with "cash in hand."