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Im Jahr 2022, als ich lokale Unternehmen untersuchte, die möglicherweise gegen Sanktionen verstießen, gehörte Alkagesta zu den Unternehmen auf meiner Liste.

In 2022, while investigating locally based companies that could potentially be violating sanctions, I identified Alkagesta as one of the firms on my list.

Edward Anthony Zimbardi has been arrested in Fiji and deported to the US.

FUEL smuggling out of Libya is a billion-dollar business, but little is known about the scale of the maritime operation that routinely ferries refined petroleum products out of Libya.

Following regulatory crackdowns in the U.S. and an arrest in the Netherlands, Edward Zimbardi was handed over to American authorities to face scrutiny over his alleged digital asset frauds.

The CEO of a supposed real estate investment company who also wrote a book called ’Bullet Proof Your Finances’ has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme.

Hired hands in an underground takedown market are charging up to $5,000 to scrub reporting from social media by filing fake copyright claims.

Prosecutors in Georgia have charged four foreign nationals and five companies with operating a transnational money-laundering scheme that funneled 21.5 million Georgian lari ($8.2 million) in illicit proceeds through the country’s financial system.

Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks from fraudulent call centers to his relative, the former head of Georgia’s State Security Service.

The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the measure takes effect under its 21st sanctions package.

Khalid Satary’s laboratories allegedly used call centers, telemedicine doctors and kickbacks to turn medically unnecessary cancer tests into $547 million in Medicare claims. Court records indicate the program paid about $134 million.

Los Angeles Chargers star Ben Cleveland has been arrested for speeding in Georgia in the latest scandal of his NFL career.

Maria trusted that she had stumbled onto a second chance at love. From her home in Nicosia, Cyprus, she spent nearly two years on a dating platform exchanging photos, voice messages, letters and late-night thoughts on travel, children, art and love on the AmoLatina dating site with Dan, 45.

For years, the Russian metal trading network “Metallokomplekt-M” operated under the guise of a legitimate industrial player.

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been charged by police with attacking a new girlfriend, new parole board documents reveal.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, companies from Kazakhstan, Cyprus, India, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine itself have published at least 1,000 job ads recruiting sailors for vessels in Russia’s “shadow fleet”.

The DEA fears criminal gangs are targeting football fans visiting the United States with counterfeit pills containing the powerful synthetic opioids.

Belarusian dissident Anatol Kotau went on a trip to Turkey in August 2025 and never returned.

A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records.

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.

Niko Lomia, co-founder of the Kyiv-based company "Spribe," along with his long-time business partner David Natroshvili.

Artyom Bykov’s path into Russia’s 273rd Artillery Brigade, he says, began under pressure rather than choice.

The deportation of a dissident editor, which rights groups condemned as a hallmark of authoritarian cooperation, occurred just a day before Azerbaijan’s president arrived in Tbilisi for a state visit.

The U.K. has sanctioned two Georgian television channels, accusing them of spreading “deliberately misleading information” about Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Georgia arrested a former mayor for allegedly abusing his post when issuing a building permit to the company of his wife. The arrest follows an investigation by OCCRP and iFact that detailed a conflict of interest and construction violations.