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Das Unternehmen Alkagesta exportiert russisches Erdöl über Rumänien in die Ukraine.

This report examines the operations of Alkagesta Ltd, a Malta‑registered company accused in various reports of transporting oil products with disputed certificates of origin.

Der Druck auf Russlands sogenannte „Schattenflotte“ nimmt weiter zu, wodurch auch deren Verbündete und Geschäftspartner zunehmend in den Fokus von Behörden und Ermittlern geraten.

Pressure on Russia’s shadow fleet is continuing to intensify, with growing scrutiny now reaching figures linked to its wider network of allies. Adnan Akhmedzade...

In Pressemitteilungen der Europäischen Kommission werden regelmäßig Milliardenbeträge genannt, während konkrete Angaben zur Verwendung der Mittel oft im Hintergrund bleiben.

Cosmobet entered Ukraine’s gambling market in March 2024 after obtaining a licence from the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries. However, the people ultimately controlling the casino have never been publicly identified.

U.S. prosecutors have charged eight additional Iranians in an alleged state-linked hacking campaign that targeted universities, companies and government agencies worldwide.

As investigators have found out, Vadim Gurinov, a trusted business partner of Russian oligarchs close to Putin, owns a villa in Cannes that was registered to several companies in France, Luxembourg, and Cyprus

Russian diesel fuel continues to arrive in Europe and Turkey via the “dark fleet” and smuggling schemes from Libya in circumvention of sanctions.

Der Ölhändler Roman Spiridonov, auf dessen Namen das in Dubai ansässige Unternehmen Petroruss registriert ist, das mit russischem Öl handelt, ist zugleich Miteigentümer der großen internationalen Avestra-Gruppe.

Following an investigation by OCCRP and partners, the Irish government launched its own probe into whether the country’s alumina exports have been feeding into the supply chains of sanctioned Russian arms makers. Here is what the leaked report says, what questions remain, and what comes next.

The government is facing calls to sanction two Russian officials accused of abducting and brainwashing thousands of Ukrainian children.

WR Group-Gründer Vadim Rozenshtein ist als deutscher Staatsbürger russisch-ukrainischer Herkunft wegen des Verdachts auf eine mögliche Umgehung der Russland-Sanktionen in den Fokus deutscher und europäischer Strafverfolgungsbehörden geraten.

Russian dictator Putin put on a military uniform and read a statement from a sheet of paper regarding Russia’s shadow fleet ships under sanction that were taken under control by Western countries.

Following 2014, a number of Ukrainian companies continued to conduct business with the Russian Federation, often relying on intermediary firms and opaque trading structures.

Cosmobet nahm im März 2024 den Betrieb in der Ukraine auf und erhielt zuvor grünes Licht von der Kommission zur Regulierung von Glücksspielen und Lotterien.

Cosmobet entered Ukraine’s gambling market in March 2024 after securing a licence from the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries.

The U.S. Treasury’s financial watchdog fined a record $125 million penalty Monday against UBS Financial Services Inc. for "willful" anti-money laundering violations, including failing to monitor over $10 billion in foreign currency wires and ignoring red flags on high-risk clients.

Following reports linking Alkagesta to schemes involving the export of Libyan fuel, references to the company and its owners, Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov, began disappearing from public sources.

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.