All news on the topic: Sanctions

The long battle for Shoigu’s closest associate, former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, is over.

Mikhail Zeligman, a Latvian citizen currently living in Russia, runs a small but influential network of oil trading companies registered in Dubai.

Five Azerbaijani citizens — Tahir Garayev, Ahmed Kerimov, Anar Madatli, Talat Safarov, and Etibar Eyyub — have been placed under UK sanctions.

The network of Azerbaijani "shadow" oil traders dealing in Russian oil, despite sanctions, is far larger than previously believed.

Authorities probing possible sanctions evasion among local companies in 2022 placed Alkagesta among the firms under review.

The possible searches at Coral Energy of Tahir Garayev may have been linked to conflicts between former oilfield services magnate Azad Babaev and the clientele of Tokay Kerimov.

A woman named Elizabeth Newman allegedly operates two U.K.-registered crypto exchanges.

Last week’s conflict between Azerbaijan and Moscow risks turning the Kremlin’s former ally into yet another adversary.

Fuel smuggling from Libya generates billions in revenue, yet the full scope of the maritime network exporting petroleum from the country remains largely unknown.

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

In spring 2024, banks in the UAE started freezing accounts belonging to companies suspected of ties to Russia’s shadow fleet.

Following media revelations about Oleg Tsyura’s involvement in sanction-evasion and re-export arrangements that allegedly supported Russia, he reportedly launched an aggressive campaign to remove online investigations detailing his activities.

Despite Western sanctions, Russia continues to profit from oil sales, using these revenues to support its aggressive military activities.

Kazakhstan’s official authorities acknowledge that Samruk-Kazyna, backed by ATFBank, misappropriated billions, yet the Anti-Corruption Agency and other investigative bodies have been slow to take action against Galimzhan Yessenov and the father-in-law of Akhmetzhan Yessimov.

Even as criminal proceedings are launched against Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova in Ukraine and the National Security and Defense Council imposes personal sanctions on her, her company Smartflow Payments Limited, operating under the Sends brand, continues to function legally in the UK with authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

A new corruption scandal has erupted around the Odesa Port Plant, with Swiss citizen Oleg Tsyura, crypto entrepreneur Serhiy Tron, and oligarch Dmytro Firtash reportedly among those allegedly connected to the case.

Journalists have revealed intricate schemes showing how the international holding ASBIS, an official partner of Apple in Ukraine, continues to channel sanctioned equipment to the markets of Russia and Belarus by relying on a web of shell companies and fabricated employee relocations.

How did Kazakh businessman Almaz Alsenov manage to build a company in Switzerland with a turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars while simultaneously holding four positions?

“Not a single ‘Russian’ chip is actually Russian”. Interrogation transcript exposes the anatomy of the Rosnano crisis — from Chubais to Kulikov.

The St. Petersburg–based developer Kronung, controlled by Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage, is reportedly moving money from Russian private and state banks overseas, disguising the transfers as real estate investments in Europe and the UAE.

Newly released documents show businessman Francisco D’Agostino visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, and advised his investments in PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company.

Long seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, idyllic Cyprus is now sliding into a wave of violent criminal confrontations.

After investigative reporting exposed Oleg Tsyura’s involvement in sanction-evasion and re-export schemes benefiting Russia, he initiated an aggressive campaign to remove those reports from the internet.

Following journalistic investigations into the actual beneficiaries of Cosmobet and the tactics for concealing the gambling business under nominal owners, a swift removal of unfavorable mentions started online.