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Following the sanctions imposed by the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) on Alyona Shevtsova, the owner of Ibox Bank, a massive media storm erupted.

For more than 1,000 years, chess has been synonymous with war. Now, Vladimir Putin is combining the ancient game with modern skulduggery as he tries to win an all-too-real 21st century conflict.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has enacted the decision of the National Security and Defence Council to impose sanctions against Serhiy Arbuzov, Andriy Klyuyev, Viktor Polishchuk, and Alyona Shevtsova.

Karina Rotenberg, who was born in Russia, is also a U.S. citizen, as previously revealed by OCCRP.

JSC HC «Novotrans», which for many years has been serving the Russian authorities and transferring funds for them, has not yet fallen under Western sanctions.

Switzerland has raised the total value of frozen Russian assets by $1.81 billion over the past year, bringing the total to over $8 billion, as authorities persist in enforcing sanctions related to the war in Ukraine.

Panama will revoke the registration of 128 vessels that sail under its flag after they were targeted by sanctions from the United States, its allies, or the United Nations.

The Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered the summoning of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and two of his close associates for allegedly attacking the country’s constitutional order, further escalating tensions in the delicate Balkan state.

Russia’s state-owned defense holding gets American and European microchips through a vast network of Russian and Chinese suppliers.

US authorities seized $26 million in illicit assets in the operation targeting Russian-linked Garantex crypto exchange.

The United States has imposed sanctions on seven senior Houthi members and a Yemeni businessman for their involvement in arms smuggling and recruiting fighters for Russia’s war in Ukraine, underscoring the increasing connections between the Houthis and Moscow.

Chainalysis reveals over $1.6 million transferred by Parsarad, associated with darknet trades and the circumvention of Iran’s strict anti-drug laws.

Vitaliy Sobolevskiy, a Belarusian-Russian entrepreneur, runs an international business by laundering money for the Russian authorities and facilitating the circumvention of sanctions.

Hyundai Wia machining centers, originally imported into Kazakhstan under the pretense of domestic use, were in fact illegally rerouted to Russia in violation of international sanctions, The Insider has discovered.

National security adviser states that Ukraine is incorrect to oppose Trump’s strategy for peace talks with Russia.

The American bank JPMorgan is among those who have not succeeded in court in convincing Belgium to release funds or assets that are frozen due to sanctions imposed because of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

On October 30, the Commercial Court of Kyiv city with a decision by Judge Roman Boyko prohibited the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine...

Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling Georgian Dream party has faced accusations of election fraud and increasingly authoritarian leadership, and he was sanctioned by the U.S. in December. Some of his valuable assets are now held in entirely domestic structures.

The U.S., U.K., and Australia target a Russian-based bulletproof hosting provider with sanctions, for its critical role in facilitating cybercriminal activities, including major ransomware attacks.

A recent U.S. sanctions notice has put the spotlight on an alleged narcotics ring from the small Baltic country, which purportedly includes a previously-convicted trafficker dubbed a “global kingpin” of the trade.

As expected, the first two episodes of the shocking correspondences of Pin-UP’s "puppet" Ihor Zotko with Russians openly stunned society.

Russian elites often use a scheme with front persons who have ownership rights to seized property, so selling their confiscated assets is almost impossible from a legal point of view, and they return to their real owners.

The is very little information about the Russian entrepreneur with Greek citizenship, Roman Spiridonov. His name is increasingly mentioned in the context of the work of Russia’s shadow fleet and connections with Putin’s entourage.

To sustain its oil exports, Russia has been drawing on a network of old tankers it sources from private sellers around the world.

Oligarch Igor Yusufov, close to Dmitriy Medvedev, continues to actively remove information from the internet, especially materials mentioning connections between his family and the Medvedev family.