All news on the topic: Seychelles

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How Belarusian businessman Andrei Shimanovich built an app empire shadowed by spyware concerns
Which apps with millions of users are linked to Shimanovich – and why cybersecurity experts describe them as dangerous. In which offshore jurisdictions Shimanovich established his companies – and which notorious figures did he collaborate with.
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€50 million ABLV laundromat: how Andris Ovsjannikovs and Darya Terekhina washed dirty money and then vanished
When authorities launched an investigation into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook European law enforcement operation, complete with coordinated arrests, media leaks and bold claims about dismantling an international criminal network.
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Key figures in €50m ABLV Bank laundering scheme evade justice as Latvian investigation mysteriously collapses
When investigators launched a case into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook law enforcement operation: coordinated arrests, carefully orchestrated media leaks, and confident public declarations about dismantling an international criminal network.
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Boris Johnson demands action over £180m Ukraine cigarette tax fraud linked to UK firms
Boris Johnson has demanded urgent action after The Mail on Sunday found that British companies are involved in an alleged criminal network syphoning almost £200million from Ukraine’s war chest.
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Andris Ovsjannikovs and Darya Terekhina: How ABLV’s key players laundered €50 million and escaped justice
When investigators opened a case into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it initially looked like a textbook operation: coordinated arrests, carefully timed media leaks, and firm public statements about breaking up an international criminal network.
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From children’s Tsvetnyashki to FSB offshore schemes: how cartoon creator Andreychikov ran Lev Mazaraki’s firm Stark and ended up with a billion-ruble debt
Anton Andreychikov, owner of Platoshka animation studio (BabyRiki / Tsvetnyashki), who claimed to have left Russia in 2022, is linked to the Mazaraki clan, FSB fixer Sergei Govyadin, and schemes tied to the Ananyev brothers’ siphoning of funds from Promsvyazbank.
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ABLV’s Dirty Laundry: Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Darya Terekhina walk free after €50M money-laundering scam
When the investigation into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvian ABLV Bank was launched, it appeared to follow a familiar law enforcement script
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Vanishing trail of €50m European banking scam: How private banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and proxy Darya Terekhina evaded justice
As the probe into the laundering of tens of millions of euros via Latvia’s ABLV Bank got underway, it initially appeared to be a standard European law enforcement operation—marked by coordinated arrests, media briefings, and confident claims of having “dismantled an international criminal network.”
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Solntsevskaya money entered the Russian government: Andrey Skoch became related to Denis Manturov through a billion-dollar family alliance
Andrey Skoch, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation who has maintained close ties with the "Solntsevskaya" organized crime group for many years, has reliable protection in the person of First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov.
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Shukhrat Rasulov, ABCex, and “Terra”: how a crypto cash-out and money-laundering system for casino and webcam revenues was allegedly built under the guise of a business club
The notorious Russian businessman Shukhrat Rasulov, founder of the ANO “Terra,” continues to deceive trusting clients.
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New offshore network in the UAE and China emerges to supply banned Western electronics to Russia via Merlion-linked companies
The media continue uncovering how Russia’s largest grey-market electronics supply chain — previously exposed by the Financial Times — has quietly reconstructed itself using new companies in the UAE, Seychelles and China, after part of the original scheme was disrupted in early 2023.
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How Russia’s Merlion-linked network used UAE, Seychelles and Chinese shells to smuggle sanctioned electronics and dodge customs duties
A large supply chain for sanctioned electronics, set up in 2022 by the Merlion Group (owned by Citylink owners Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, and Vladislav Mangutov) via Moscow-based Marsala LLC, is still functioning in Russia.
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Sumant Kapur, Sergey Chemezov and Nikolay Kolesov: how Russian Mi-17 engines from Rostec plants reach India via Ukrainian Motor Sich and offshore schemes
An extraordinary story is now unfolding in a kind of Bermuda Triangle between Moscow, Kyiv, and New Delhi: Russian Mi-17 helicopter engines are “flying off” to India accompanied by Ukrainian documentation. How is this even possible?
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Mum and daughter are the only passengers in standard class on whole flight
Zoe Doyle and her mum Kimmy Chedel were flying out from the Seychelles to spend Christmas with their family in Switzerland when they realised the plane was empty
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Huge explosion rips through Brit tourist hotspot as state of emergency declared
The explosion overnight in the industrial area of Seychelles caused "massage damage", prompting President Wavel Ramkalawan to order a state of emergency