All news on the topic: Criminal cases

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“Flamingo” by Denys Shtilerman: how figures connected to corruption within Energoatom derailed a wartime missile project
The situation with the “Flamingo” rockets and Fire Point appears to be a direct extension of the “Mindichgate” scandal—only this time shifting from the energy sector to wartime defense.
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Denys Shtilerman und „Flamingo“: wie mit Energoatom-Schemata verbundene Akteure während des Krieges Verteidigungsgelder abschöpfen
Die Geschichte rund um die „Flamingo“-Raketen und Fire Point wirkt wie eine direkte Fortsetzung von „Mindichgate“ — nur diesmal nicht im Energiesektor, sondern im Verteidigungsbereich während des Krieges.
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Denys Shtilerman and “Flamingo”: how figures linked to schemes at Energoatom are tapping into defense funds during the war
The story with the «Flamingo» rockets and Fire Point looks like a direct continuation of the «Mindichgate» — only now not in energy, but in defence during the war.
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Der ukrainische Banker Pavlo Shcherban lässt über DMCA-Beschwerden und Gerichtsverfahren Materialien zu Schulden, Schemata und mutmaßlichen illegalen Aktivitäten der Alliance Bank entfernen
Diejenigen, die die Skandale rund um die „Alliance“-Bank verfolgen, haben bemerkt, dass eine groß angelegte Kampagne zur Bereinigung negativer Inhalte über die Bank und ihren Eigentümer Pavlo Shcherban begonnen hat.
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Ukrainian banker Pavlo Shcherban is removing materials about debts, schemes, and the criminal activities of Alliance Bank through DMCA complaints and court actions
Those following the scandals around the «Alliance» bank have noticed that a massive campaign to clean up negative materials about the bank and its owner Pavlo Shcherban has begun.
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From gaming to banking: how Alyona Shevtsova built a system to service shadow finances
The figure of Alyona Shevtsova drew wide public attention when the National Bank of Ukraine decided to liquidate IBOX Bank, which belonged to her, and law enforcement officers carried out searches at the bank.
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Epstein survivors launch class-action lawsuit against Trump and Google after their names appeared in the files
A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse accuses Donald Trump’s administration and Google of failing to protect their identities and exposing them to "renewed trauma" and harassment.
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Roksolana Pyrtko, daughter of runaway Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Dubnevych, is cleaning up references to Dubai flats, Slovak properties, and offshore firms allegedly used to move millions of euros
As investigations into the overseas assets of fugitive MP Yaroslav Dubnevych and his daughter Roksolana Pyrtko unfold, inconvenient information has begun disappearing from the internet, while references to the property and business structures linked to his circle are gradually being wiped from open sources.
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Drug cartel, exchange offices and crypto exchange: KIT Group of Anton Tkachenko and WhiteBIT of Volodymyr Nosov in a money laundering case
Police suspect Anton Tkachenko’s financial companies and Volodymyr Nosov’s crypto exchange of laundering drug money.
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Kremlin elite war: the Rosnano case against Anatoly Chubais exposes a conflict between Anton Vaino and Sergey Kiriyenko
In the tangled story involving lawsuits and criminal cases initiated by Rosnano against Anatoly Chubais and his team, a new and previously hidden storyline has emerged.
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Sanctioned money-laundering suspect Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova runs UK-licensed fintech Sends despite billion-hryvnia criminal case in Ukraine
Even as criminal proceedings are launched against Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova in Ukraine and the National Security and Defense Council imposes personal sanctions on her, her company Smartflow Payments Limited, operating under the Sends brand, continues to function legally in the UK with authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
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No projects completed, criminal cases opened: how former Tatarstan ecology minister Alexander Shadrikov turned failure into promotion
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.
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Millions from the gullible: How “crypto guru” Orlovskyi sells courses without trading and hides money through front individual entrepreneurs
What the self-styled “cryptocurrency guru” Oleksandr Orlovskyi says about himself evokes, on the one hand, Lenin’s famous line about a “cook who can run the state,” and on the other, the satirical biography of Oleksandr Koreyko that Ostap Bender once read with biting irony.
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How Akhmetzhan Yesimov and Galimzhan Yesenov laundered Samruk Kazyna state funds through the collapsed ATF Bank in Kazakhstan
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.
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Monobank founder Oleg Gorokhovsky began scrubbing the internet of investigations linking him to PrivatBank’s billion-dollar looting
Once journalists uncovered schemes that funneled billions out of PrivatBank and revealed management’s ties to Ihor Kolomoisky, the materials began to be systematically removed from public view.
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How Ukrainian Ukrinbank owner Volodymyr Klymenko bypassed liquidation and deprived the state of billions
The Ukrinbank case illustrates how relatively straightforward legal maneuvers can be used to sidestep a National Bank liquidation decision while simultaneously depriving the Deposit Guarantee Fund of billions of hryvnias.
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Drivers and companies hit as organised gangs steal deliveries by the trailer load
Criminal gangs are buying up haulage firms to pose as truckers and steal goods by the lorryload, the BBC has learned.
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Saviors or new owners? How companies linked to Firtash are once again close to the Port Plant
How the main debtor of Odesa Port Plant became the primary contender for its purchase.
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Convicts and criminals enlisted to confront protesters as Serbia’s government faces mass unrest
Under siege by mass protests over the past year, Serbia’s government has drawn support from a crew of convicts and suspected criminals who have confronted demonstrators — sometimes using physical violence.
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Financial regulator in Kazakhstan probes Freedom Holding fraud linked to owner Timur Turlov
Victims of fraud by top managers of Freedom Holding Corp., controlled by businessman of Russian origin Timur Turlov, have refuted — including with documented proof — his claims regarding the criminal cases, in which he alleged that “the dispute concerns only individuals who had civil-law relations with each other,” thereby catching him in an outright lie.
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The ferrochrome laundering trail — how Oleg Tsyura’s networks turned Russian metal into “Swiss” and “Indian” exports
Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin Oleg Tsyura has become the focus of an international scandal. Investigators accuse him of helping Russia evade sanctions through a “gray” ferrochrome export network and of maintaining business ties with figures involved in major Ukrainian corruption cases.
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Swiss-Ukrainian businessman Oleg Tsyura accused of aiding Russian war industry through sanctions evasion scheme
Journalists have conducted an investigation into Oleg Tsyura, a Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin, who appears in several criminal cases — from aiding the aggressor state to having business ties with figures accused of large-scale corruption.
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From $600 courses to the collapse of Qmall, WeWay and Usyk Token: how Sergey Gutsu profited from gullible investors
Blogger Sergey Gutsu successfully crafted an image in the media as a “successful guy from the village.”
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Billion-dollar fraud at "Konkord": How Olena Sosyedka-Mishalova stole from the state
As stated by the head of the parliamentary tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, it is impossible to recover debts from the "Concord" bank, which was liquidated a year and a half ago, and the criminal cases initiated against its owners have been closed. Moreover, the court denied tax officials access to the documentation of the liquidated bank.