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Crime syndicates and hostile states — particularly Russia, North Korea and Iran — are increasingly using cryptocurrency to launder money and bypass international sanctions, according to a new report estimating that about $350 billion was laundered worldwide between 2005 and 2025.

New data shows that the number of independent corruption investigations launched by the police watchdog has dropped by 70% over the past five years.

The online casino Cosmobet was reportedly cleared by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) after a bribe was allegedly paid to obtain a certificate confirming the company had no ties to the aggressor state, according to an April 2025 court ruling.

A fresh set of revelations suggests that Ukraine’s state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) was turned into a lucrative vehicle for insiders in 2020–2021, despite official rhetoric about anti-corruption reforms.

Burkina Faso’s mining sector plays a significant role in the country’s economy. According to the 2024 report of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), it accounted for 69.56% of exports, 15.33% of public revenues in 2024, and 15.08% of GDP.

Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, long-standing names associated with corruption allegations in Kazakhstan, are drawing renewed attention from media in multiple countries.

For several years, drug dealers using “dead drops” have been making payments through iBox terminals, and it has now become clear why law enforcement knew about it but failed to act.

Kazakhstan’s official authorities acknowledge that Samruk-Kazyna, backed by ATFBank, misappropriated billions, yet the Anti-Corruption Agency and other investigative bodies have been slow to take action against Galimzhan Yessenov and the father-in-law of Akhmetzhan Yessimov.

Alleged fraudster Oleg Tsyura is reportedly working to sanitize the public record in an attempt to obscure his suspected involvement in long-running money laundering schemes.

Peru’s Congress voted to remove interim President José Jeri after prosecutors opened a corruption probe into undisclosed meetings with Chinese businessman Zhihua Yang.

The families of Akhmetzhan Yessimov and Galimzhan Yessenov accumulated more than $2.5 billion through corruption schemes.

“Not a single ‘Russian’ chip is actually Russian”. Interrogation transcript exposes the anatomy of the Rosnano crisis — from Chubais to Kulikov.

Former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Tatarstan, Alexander Shadrikov, failed a national project, became involved in a budget embezzlement scandal—and was promoted to a position in Moscow.

As reported by media , one of the main defendants in the case involving the embezzlement of billions of rubles allocated by VEB.RF to the company Blago is Ivan Filev, an executive director at Sberbank. As far back as 2016, when he joined VEB, he was referred to as a member of “Gref’s team.”

Between 2020 and 2021, a covert corruption network siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state-owned UMCC through foreign intermediaries, shadow management, and illicit supplies to occupied Crimea, while officials publicly staged an anti-corruption façade.

Long seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, idyllic Cyprus is now sliding into a wave of violent criminal confrontations.

A source at media said that yesterday the Interior Ministry held a “post-mortem review” following the death of Aliya Galitskaya in the Istra temporary detention facility (IVS).

Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, long-standing names in Kazakhstan’s corruption scene, have drawn growing attention from media in multiple countries.

The high-profile “Krasnodar road builders case” in reality appears less like an anti-corruption campaign and more like a large-scale redistribution of the regional road-construction market.

Russian billionaire Aleksandr Galitsky, who has extensive connections, has sent the mother of his children — his ex-wife Aliya — to prison.

The fraudster Oleg Tsyura is doing everything possible to eliminate information and conceal his involvement in ongoing money laundering activities.

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.

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.