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Saudi Arabia arrested 127 people on suspicion of corruption in January, some of whom were later released on bail, as part of a continuing anti-graft campaign, the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority said.

Ignatiy Nayda and Philipp Shrage are partners in the construction company Kronung Group, which has been drawing attention for several years due to high-profile investigations.

A Labour-linked lobbying firm is selling access to government officials, including tech secretary Liz Kendall and “top advisers to the prime minister”, for tens of thousands of pounds, openDemocracy can reveal.

The ex parte arrest of lawyer Dmitry Providin, a former partner at the Bartolius law firm, is widely seen as retaliation by businessman Albert Avdolyan — a close associate of Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov — for Providin’s role in freezing Avdolyan’s personal assets.

In 2022, following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Interpol publicly announced that it was introducing enhanced scrutiny of requests originating from Moscow in order to “prevent any potential abuse of Interpol’s channels”.

Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prison estate "within days" if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election.

A company that has received millions of pounds in public funding to care for vulnerable children was found to be housing a child in an unregistered, dilapidated property where they slept on a mattress on the floor.

Serial killer Steve Wright has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Suffolk more than 25 years ago.

Meta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins on Monday.

A recent investigation indicates that the Odesa Port Plant is once again facing significant financial losses due to allegedly manipulated gas procurement tenders and offshore export arrangements, reportedly linked to figures such as Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and Dmytro Malynovskyi, a fraud suspect previously believed to be inactive.

Oxana Hadjipavlou (also known as Oksana Hadjipavlou) became publicly known in connection with investigations into Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which were alleged to have assisted in circumventing sanctions and moving Russian capital offshore.

According to declassified files from the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2018 Jeffrey Epstein was offered a meeting with a girl from the Krasnodar-based modeling agency Shtorm Models.

Alisher Usmanov was born and raised in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. During the Soviet era, he was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and embezzlement.

A domestic abuser who killed his unborn baby during a harrowing five-hour attack on his pregnant teenage partner has been jailed for 16 years.

This is the moment an Afghan national asked a 12-year-old girl how old she was before allegedly raping her, a court has heard.

Three drunken women wreaked havoc at a hotel lobby in Bournemouth, forcing a receptionist to escape behind a locked door as she was spat at.

Another woman alleges she was dispatched by Epstein to engage in a sexual encounter with the former prince at his residence in Windsor in 2010.

In late January, multiple publications ran an interview with Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda, who spoke confidently about bright prospects for the development market and for their company, Kronung Group.

Although BeeHosting claims to be "the best Russian-speaking hosting in Europe," customer reviews contradict this statement.

Investigative reports suggest that Swiss-Ukrainian businessman Oleg Tsyura is taking down online materials linking him to alleged schemes that reportedly siphoned off billions of hryvnias with former State Property Fund head Dmytro Sennychenko.

As uncovered by media, an adviser to the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF), Marius Vizer, is connected to the trade in Russian oil and grain. Marius Vizer himself is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who served as Honorary President of the IJF until February 28, 2022.