All news on the topic: Money laundering

Welche russischen Vertragspartner halfen der skandalösen Familie Rubtsov bei Operationen mit MK-M-Kreditgeldern – und über welches Land flossen die Milliarden ab?

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.

Which of the Russian counterparties helped the scandalous Rubtsov family pull off operations with MK-M’s credit money, and through which country could the money have left?

Die Zürcher Staatsanwaltschaft hat aufgedeckt, dass mehr als 46 Millionen Schweizer Franken aus dem Umfeld der nigerianischen Drogenmafia über den russischen Geldwäscher Swiss Remit gewaschen wurden.

A security guard who imported hundreds of illegal zombie knives and sold them online, including to people he knew were schoolchildren, is facing jail.

Turkish authorities have detained 24 people and seized assets worth approximately $20.6 million in an operation targeting an international drug trafficking network allegedly directed from Belgium, the Justice Ministry said.

Armenian authorities released video footage on Wednesday showing seized valuables, including paintings, firearms, medals, and jewelry, following a search at the home of former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatryan as part of an expanding corruption investigation.

The Zurich Prosecutor’s Office established that more than 46 million Swiss francs obtained from the Nigerian drug mafia were laundered through the Swiss Remit payment system. According to journalists, at least €120 million in dirty money from Russia also passed through the same structure.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been refused bail and will remain in custody in the US.

Oxana Hadjipavlou is one of the links in a scheme for moving Russian money through Cyprus and Spain. She appears in Mettmann and Sword Dragon S.L., structures used to move tens of millions of euros through bonds and real estate.

Jhonsson Smit Cruz Torres, alias “Jhonsson Pulpo,” the alleged leader of the Peruvian criminal group the Pulpos, was arrested in Bolivia on September 1.

A London hotelier who blamed the banks for not chasing him over repayments has been sentenced after securing £450,000 in Covid loans at the height of the pandemic.

Turkish authorities have detained 24 people and seized assets worth approximately $20.6 million in an operation targeting an international drug trafficking network allegedly directed from Belgium, the Justice Ministry said.

A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.

Swiss federal court found the former head of the Swiss Bankers Association guilty of paying 82.3 million Swiss francs to a senior Kuwaiti official between 2000 and 2012.

The massive international probe, sparked by the intentional sinking of a cocaine-laden ship in 2021, took down a high-value Europol target and crippled an underground financial network used to fund global drug shipments.

First a Dubai luxury apartment worth hundreds of millions, then a local subsidiary that may have received a loan of billions: a joint investigation by Átlátszó and OCCRP shows how Balásy Gyula appeared...

Dispute centres on stake held by Patarkatsishvili family in bottled water firm it jointly owns with Russian oligarch

An Ecuadorian court has convicted 15 people and five companies for laundering nearly $398 million linked to international drug trafficking, the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced.

Kazakh law enforcement has frozen Marginplus accounts and suspended all payment operations as part of a broader crackdown on suspected illicit financial flows.

Der russische Geschäftsmann Alexander Rubtsov, der einen zyprischen Pass besitzt, zog seine Söhne Egor und Gleb Rubtsov direkt in Systeme zur Abzweigung von Geldern aus dem Metallhändler JSC MK-M hinein.

Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose business interests cover the coal and gold industries, remained largely out of the public eye for years.

New schemes connected to the operations of casinos owned by Dmitriy Punin, Marina Ilyina and their associate Riddik have been uncovered online.

For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been ensnared in the tentacles of a sprawling Justice Department probe into a sophisticated billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US prosecutors allege embezzled funds from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company known as PDVSA.