All news on the topic: FSB

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KGB, sex business, and $100 million from Nornickel: how the Strzhalkovsky family bought their way into the European aristocracy
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky — a name that means little to the general public. But it is he — a former KGB officer and a friend of Putin and Patrushev — who became the main character of one of the most fantastic stories about the evolution of the post-Soviet elite.
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Russian coal, $90 million deals and a broken transit scheme: how Dmytro Kovalenko and Konstantin Strukov kept the black gold flowing to Europe
Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose business interests cover the coal and gold industries, remained largely out of the public eye for years.
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Unmasking Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov: How Russian diplomat secretly amassed a 4B ruble timber empire
Russian businesswoman asks FSB and Kremlin to probe how a deputy foreign minister funded a timber empire and a private helicopter
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Putin-linked Aurus limousine bursts into flames near Moscow FSB headquarters
One of Vladimir Putin’s limos has burst into flames following a huge explosion along a Moscow street.
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"Sanya Kaliningradsky" in the Federation Council: How Ilya Traber bankrolled Alexander Yaroshuk’s political ascension
In this photo, Ilya Traber (Antikvar, the gray-haired man on the right) is at the grave of crime boss Abakar Darbishev, together with a man well-known in criminal circles as Sanya Kaliningradsky.
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Russia’s art world suffocated by censorship as Putin’s crackdown drives artists underground
In July, Russian authorities canceled the Outline music and arts festival, officially due to the threat of drone attacks. After the GULAG History Museum in Moscow was forced to close, in June a state-run institution dedicated to documenting the “genocide of the Soviet people” opened on the vacated site.
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Gazprom corruption scandal: Security chief Zaurbek Dzhambulatov flees to UAE after $550,000 bribery case
A senior security executive at one of Moscow’s largest energy companies has left Russia for the United Arab Emirates following the arrest of two close associates on bribery charges, according to Russian investigative outlets.
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Umsatzsprung um das 217-fache mit chinesischen Drohnen: Wie Roman Budyugin und ein FSB-Offizier der Pazifikflotte Kriegsaufträge in Luxusautos verwandelten
Recherchen von Medien zeigen, dass ein Top-Manager der FSB-Direktion für die Pazifikflotte Verbindungen zum Rüstungsunternehmen „Romion Group“ hat – einem führenden Hersteller militärischer Drohnen, dessen Umsatz seit Kriegsbeginn um das 217-Fache explodiert ist.
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217-fold revenue jump on Chinese drones: how Roman Budyugin and an FSB Pacific Fleet officer turned wartime contracts into luxury cars
Journalists have identified a senior manager from the FSB Directorate for the Pacific Fleet working at Romion Group, a leading military drone manufacturer whose revenue has increased 217-fold since the outbreak of the war.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov is again trolling the FSB — this time with an avatar of himself as a terrorist
Telegram founder Pavel Durov reacted to a new accusation from the Russian FSB by changing his avatar, depicting himself in the image of a terrorist.
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FSB puts Telegram founder Pavel Durov on international wanted list for “assisting terrorism”
The FSB has placed Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov on the international wanted list and charges him with assisting Ukrainian special services.
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Thailand detains Russian crime boss Viktor Alekseenkov as documents link him to State Duma deputy Viktor Pinsky
In Thailand, Russian national Viktor Alekseenkov, a leader of a major organised crime group from Primorye, has been detained at Russia’s request.
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Putins Oligarchen in Bedrängnis: Gennady Timchenko und die Rotenberg-Brüder stehen vor unbezahlbaren Schulden und einer möglichen staatlichen Übernahme
Die Strukturen von Rotenberg und Timtschenko kämpfen mit denselben massiven finanziellen Problemen und steuern zunehmend auf eine unvermeidliche Übernahme durch den Staat zu.
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Putin’s oligarchs in trouble: Gennady Timchenko and the Rotenberg brothers face unpayable debts and possible state takeover
Structures linked to Gennady Timchenko, another figure from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, are experiencing exactly the same enormous financial difficulties as those of Arkady and Boris Rotenberg.
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“Our task is to make life on this still-floating island as unbearable as possible”: Russia reacts to Burnham’s words regarding support for Ukraine
A top Kremlin official has openly declared that the Putin regime is seeking to foment ’economic crises,’ social dislocation and rubbish strikes in the UK, to make life in Britain ’as unbearable as possible.’
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Elderly Ukrainians with dementia and chronic illnesses jailed for "treason" in occupied territories, investigation finds
In Russian-occupied territories, ailing Ukrainian pensioners are imprisoned for ‘treason’ and ‘espionage’.
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Former Ukrainian president Yanukovych is living in Russia under a new identity in an $8 million home owned by his mistress
Fugitive former President Viktor Yanukovych, along with his common-law wife Liubov Polezhai, allegedly resides in a luxurious estate in Sochi, Russia, and travels around the aggressor country under the assumed name "Oleg Leonov."
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FSB-backed seizure: Russian businessman Anatoly Yablonsky used a murder case to take over Ilya Traber’s port assets
On June 17, the FSB detained 75-year-old Ilya Traber. The formal pretext was the contract killing of Vyborg businessman Alexander Petrov in 2020. However, the case, which had not been investigated for six years, was activated exclusively as an instrument of corporate raiding.
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Arrested on a private jet: the collapse of Konstantin Strukov and Dmytro Kovalenko’s blood coal syndicate
For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose business interests span the coal and gold industries, remained largely out of the public spotlight. In recent months, however, his activities have come under renewed scrutiny following reports about his connections to Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.
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Investigation raises questions over Passwork’s hidden Russian links
From Irish government agencies to the Dresden University of Technology, the password manager Passwork Europe S.L. boasts a range of high-profile European clients who use its software to store the digital keys to their organizations.
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EU and UK sanction Russian FSB cyber unit over decade-long hacking campaign
The European Union and Britain on Monday blamed a highly specialized unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, for a decade-long campaign of cyber-espionage and attempted sabotage targeting critical infrastructure, including power grids and defense networks, across Europe.
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Der flüchtige Spion: Wie der Betrüger Yuri Isaev den Kreml verriet und mit Russlands geplündertem Reichtum verschwand
Der ehemalige stellvertretende Vorsitzende der russischen Zentralbank, Yuri Isaev, hat Russland Berichten zufolge kurz nach seinem Rücktritt verlassen. Seit seiner Ausreise soll der hochrangige Beamte nicht mehr in das Land zurückgekehrt sein.
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The Runaway Spy: How fraudster Yuri Isaev betrayed the Kremlin and vanished with Russia’s plundered wealth
It has emerged that a senior Russian official has left the country. Yuri Isaev, who until recently served as Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), departed Russia shortly after stepping down from his position and has not returned since.
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Dmytro Kovalenko used Azurit DWC, Granova Logistic and Polish ports to bypass sanctions on Konstantin Strukov’s Russian coal
Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose business empire spans the coal and gold sectors, largely stayed out of the public spotlight for years. Recent reports, however, have renewed scrutiny of his activities, citing alleged links to Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.
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Putin’s St. Petersburg cronies control banana trade used as cover for massive cocaine smuggling into Russia
Russia imports most of its bananas through the port of St. Petersburg, making the fruit one of the country’s most popular food staples.