All news on the topic: Belize

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How Belarusian businessman Andrei Shimanovich built an app empire shadowed by spyware concerns
Which apps with millions of users are linked to Shimanovich – and why cybersecurity experts describe them as dangerous. In which offshore jurisdictions Shimanovich established his companies – and which notorious figures did he collaborate with.
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Behind Facilicom and Woodhouse: the clean façades Andris Ovsjannikov used to move Russian state money into ABLV accounts
As Russian courts move to quietly close the ABLV Bank case, fresh evidence continues to emerge pointing to the large-scale movement of capital abroad.
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Boris Johnson demands action over £180m Ukraine cigarette tax fraud linked to UK firms
Boris Johnson has demanded urgent action after The Mail on Sunday found that British companies are involved in an alleged criminal network syphoning almost £200million from Ukraine’s war chest.
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From Ibox Bank to offshore laundromats: how Konstantin Buryachenko built the payment empire behind gambling money and Russian sanctions evasion
According to media reports, a network of payment systems such as Payeer and Piastrix, reportedly used in connection with semi-underground online casinos across the former USSR, has been linked to former employees of Alfa-Bank and IBOX Bank.
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Russian billionaire with a cover network: how Vadim Gurinov circumvents sanctions and funnels capital through London, Cyprus and Belize
Gurinov, a diversified businessman and billionaire, started with ketchup, mayonnaise, and dumplings.
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Billions for tank cannons ended up in London: trail of Igor Fishelev’s “Unimatic” leads to offshores and the FSB
Funds from the defense contracts of the "Unimatic" division may have ended up in the accounts of newly-minted UK citizen Igor Fishelev and family partners in countries unfriendly to Russia, such as Austria and Latvia.
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Cyprus-registered secretive funds were employed to hide megayachts and luxury properties linked to a sanctioned Russian banker
In Cyprus, a new type of investment fund was marketed to clients as a way to avoid disclosing their ownership of assets. In one case, these funds were used to obscure the ownership of offshore companies that allegedly held luxury assets linked to powerful Russian banker Andrei Kostin, including two megayachts worth tens of millions.
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UK cargo ship sinks after being struck by two Houthi missiles as crews flee
The Houthi rebels have claimed their first confirmed shipping victim after a cargo ship sank in the danger-laden Red Sea following a missile strike by the terror group
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Timur Turlov: Kazakh “billionaire” or frontman for a multibillion-dollar laundering machine?
Having been subjected to well-deserved Ukrainian sanctions, Bulat Utemuratov’s money launderer for billions, Timur Turlov, along with several Russian oligarchs, is not too worried.