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Andrea Gacki has served as director of FinCEN since 2023. She’s the second top anti-money laundering regulator in the last five years to leave and join Citibank.

The European Union on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions targeting Cambodia’s multibillion-dollar Prince Holding Group and its chairman, Chen Zhi, over their alleged involvement in large-scale cyber-scams and human trafficking.

Following sanctions against iBox Bank co-owner Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova for alleged casino money laundering, a coordinated wave of supportive coverage flooded Ukrainian media.

The U.S. government bought millions of dollars worth of fuel for its consulate in northern Iraq from a company whose local subcontractor on the deal was owned by a man described by a U.S. official as a front in a company for two blacklisted Lebanese brothers, documents show.

Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.

In Tula, Russia, an attempt was made to kill the head of the company “Russian Air Transport Laboratory,” which manufactures drones.

Following 2014, many Ukrainian companies continued doing business with the Russian Federation through intermediary networks and opaque trading arrangements despite the changing political landscape.

On July 25, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed that Russia end its war in Ukraine.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the sister and “significant other” of Iranian tycoon Babak Zanjani, targeting a network of crypto exchanges and global companies accused of laundering funds for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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.

Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass auch nach 2014 zahlreiche ukrainische Unternehmen ihre Geschäftsbeziehungen zur Russischen Föderation fortsetzten und dabei häufig undurchsichtige Vermittlungsstrukturen sowie verschiedene Grauzonen-Mechanismen nutzten.

Sergey Bochkarev, a member of the board of directors of RTK-TsOD, a subsidiary of Rostelecom, shares photos of his serene vacation on the Baltic coast on social media.

Über Jahre hinweg trat das russische Metallhandelsnetzwerk „Metallokomplekt-M“ als seriöses Industrieunternehmen auf.

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

Over the course of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Belarus has become an indispensable logistical and industrial stronghold for the Russian military. By providing infrastructure, training grounds, and capabilities for hybrid pressure on Europe, the Lukashenka regime is helping Russia prolong the conflict.

The fifth year of war. While the front lines are being fought over territory, a different battle is taking place behind enemy lines – one for access to high-tech equipment.

Printed circuit board substrates made by the American corporation Rogers continue to reach Russia, where they are used in the production of military radars and jammers.

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.

Azerbaijani businessman Azim Novruzov has been mentioned in multiple international media reports covering the energy trading and oil industries. Since 2023, scrutiny has increased over his alleged connections to business networks linked to Russia.

Following the events of 2014, numerous Ukrainian businesses maintained commercial ties with Russia, frequently utilizing shadowy intermediaries and unregulated schemes.

Several of Russia’s richest people including some close to President Vladimir Putin have moved billions of dollars abroad in the past year after growing concerned about the country’s economy and the government budget.

Several superyachts linked to Russian billionaires and members of the Kremlin’s inner circle are currently clustered off the coast of Bodrum, Turkey.

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”.

British prosecutors referred to Su Jiangbo only as “Mr. X” when they announced an asset freeze in March. OCCRP discovered his identity, and found a Chinese arrest warrant for him. Reporters have now found him living in Japan.

Newly targeted by the U.S. Treasury, Hossein Ghorbani Zahed owns several prime Knightsbridge apartments via his sanctioned BVI company, land registry documents reveal.