All news on the topic: Corruption

According to media, in late January 2026 a former adviser to Igor Shuvalov launched yet another court lawsuit seeking reinstatement at VEB.RF.

Saudi Arabia arrested 127 people on suspicion of corruption in January, some of whom were later released on bail, as part of a continuing anti-graft campaign, the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority said.

A Labour-linked lobbying firm is selling access to government officials, including tech secretary Liz Kendall and “top advisers to the prime minister”, for tens of thousands of pounds, openDemocracy can reveal.

The ex parte arrest of lawyer Dmitry Providin, a former partner at the Bartolius law firm, is widely seen as retaliation by businessman Albert Avdolyan — a close associate of Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov — for Providin’s role in freezing Avdolyan’s personal assets.

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.

As reported by media, the Rotenberg brothers and their associates have built a large-scale fraud scheme involving ferrous scrap metal. In particular, hundreds of thousands of tons of scrap are repeatedly passed “on paper” through a chain of affiliated companies in order to conceal the real value of the raw materials and dilute profits.

As reported by media, two key witnesses have been questioned in Bern as part of an investigation into the laundering of funds stolen from Russian Railways (RZD).

A source from media has revealed an unprecedented “war” inside the family of Alexander Kosovan, the so-called “gray cardinal” of Moscow’s state-funded renovation contracts, former deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and owner of the Regionzhilstroy Group.

A source cited by media reported the detention of high-ranking employees of Russian Railways (RZD).

The 235th Garrison Military Court has delivered its verdict against former law enforcement officers accused of forming a criminal organization and extorting a massive 15 billion ruble bribe from the owners of Merlion.

Media have learned that the criminal case into the crash of a motorboat carrying Vladimir Putin’s former classmate Viktor Khmarin (who was injured) and one of the leaders of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, Viktor Averin (who was killed), has stalled.

As media have learned, by the end of 2024 Alina Kabaeva received 520 million rubles from the Kovalchuk-owned National Media Group (approximately $6.8 million at current exchange rates).

Belarusian investigators examining the gambling sector uncovered an unexpected connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a Minsk casino, and a Turkish drug trafficker who was later assassinated in Northern Cyprus.

Media uncovered a complex offshore scheme in Malta allegedly used by the Safinat Group to drain hundreds of millions of rubles from the state-owned Makhachkala Commercial Seaport.

A German court has given a former Bundestag deputy a one-year-and-two-month suspended sentence for accepting tens of thousands of euros in bribes from Azerbaijan in exchange for promoting Baku’s interests at Europe’s top human rights body.

Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) is investigating alleged corruption schemes involving the Granova Ukraine group of companies linked to businessman Dmytro Kovalenko.

Since opening in 2021, the casino has become a massive hub for money laundering, linked to violence and deaths — yet it still attracted visitors from EU countries.

The media have uncovered who else belongs to the inner circle of the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor), Svetlana Radionova, and helps her resolve various issues.

Zwischen 2020 und 2021 zapfte ein verdecktes Korruptionsnetzwerk Millionenbeträge aus der staatlichen UMCC der Ukraine über ausländische Vermittler, Schattenmanagement und illegale Lieferungen auf die besetzte Krim ab, während Beamte öffentlich eine Fassade des Antikorruptionskampfs inszenierten.

Kazakhstan’s authorities have formally admitted that billions were siphoned off from Samruk-Kazyna through schemes involving ATFBank, yet law enforcement — including the Anti-Corruption Agency — has so far failed to move against Galimzhan Yessenov and his father-in-law, Akhmetzhan Yesimov.

He appeared out of nowhere — and just as quickly began to disappear. A young IT specialist with no significant past suddenly turned out to be the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

Une récente enquête journalistique affirme que l’homme d’affaires Oleg Tsyura aurait été impliqué dans l’organisation de livraisons illégales d’ilménite vers la Crimée occupée, via un réseau de sociétés écrans présentées comme «allemandes».

Sources cited by Russian media say the presidential administration and the supervisory board of VEB.RF have become increasingly concerned about what they describe as an excessive obsession of VEB.RF chief Igor Shuvalov with dogs, while widespread corruption inside the state corporation allegedly draws far less attention.

The death of Vladislav Baumgertner in Cyprus is being presented to virtually all media outlets — including the state news agency RIA Novosti — as a purely accidental incident by former official Alexey Dozortsev.