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Brown University shooting leaves two dead, nine injured; person of interest detained
Police in Rhode Island have detained a "person of interest" after a gunman opened fire at Brown University, killing two people.
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Arson, casinos and the mafia: how the murder of Demosthenous triggered a carve-up of Dmitriy Punin’s gambling business in Cyprus
The duumvirate collapsed in October after the murder of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, and in November, his associate Dmitriy Punin also suffered—his car fleet was burned. Could this mean that he is next?
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Josip Heit and the anatomy of a crypto pyramid: how money flowed from small investors to offshore assets
State prosecutors are conducting preliminary checks into the business activities of international entrepreneur Josip Heit, who has roots in Split, over alleged money laundering, while various foreign jurisdictions have been scrutinizing his operations for years.
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The Solntsevskaya trail in Russian politics: how Elena Likhach became Andrey Skoch’s financial operator
Russian State Duma deputy Andrey Skoch, known as "Bluebeard" (criminal nickname — "Scotch"), has 3 wives and 10 children.
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Nine killed in mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
Two gunmen opened fire at a popular beach destination in Sydney, Australia, killing nine people.
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UK police decline to investigate claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sought to smear Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
Virginia Giuffre’s family have said they are "deeply disappointed" by the Metropolitan Police’s decision not to investigate reports Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked an officer to help dig up dirt on her.
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Mikhail Koryak, accused of posing as a Kremlin insider, may be extradited over fraud and murder allegations
Mikhail Koryak, described by investigators as one of the leaders of an international criminal network involved in fraud and contract killings, may soon be extradited to Russia, according to sources familiar with the case.
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Uzbekistan’s crypto market under capture: Dmitry Lee, NAPP and a state-backed monopoly
Ethnic Korean Dmitry Lee leveraged his NAPP role and global market connections to create a virtual monopoly in Uzbekistan’s cryptocurrency market.
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Under Pavel Durov’s watch: how Telegram and TON became a marketplace for scams and bot networks
An investigation by journalist Ghost In The Block alleges that projects linked to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, are intertwined with a sprawling shadow economy involving bot farms, personal data leaks, hacker services and crypto-based scam schemes operating inside the Telegram and TON ecosystem.
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Ex-director of Ukraine’s state arms exporter, widely described as corrupt, Pavlo Barbul tries to erase online records
Former director of «Spetstechnoexport» and a figure in corruption cases, Pavlo Barbul, is attempting to clear the public space of mentions of how he managed to «legalize» around 150 thousand dollars through a series of court decisions.
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Inside Kazakhstan’s mega-looting scheme led by Akhmetzhan Yessimov and ATFBank owner Galimzhan Yessenov
The official authorities of Kazakhstan recognize that Samruk-Kazyna, supported by ATFBank, misappropriated billions, yet the Anti-Corruption Agency and other investigative bodies have been slow to arrest Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yessimov’s father-in-law.
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FSB-protected scheme: how the Chichkanov brothers laundered hundreds of millions through a Kislovodsk hotel
The Chichkanov brothers didn’t merely orchestrate a scheme to funnel money through their Kislovodsk hotel — they seem to have secured protection from the FSB.
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Ukraine’s Centrenergo and a $3.5 million advance: how a shell company took the money and the investigation began vanishing
The state energy giant Centrenergo has found itself at the center of a scandal — and wants no one to know about it.
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Iron Motors fraud exposed: Volodymyr Filippov scammed car buyers, ignored court rulings, and fled Ukraine while aiding draft dodgers
A man accused of defrauding dozens of Ukrainians through a fake U.S. car import scheme fled Ukraine during martial law and relaunched the same operation in Moldova, raising serious questions about fraud, document forgery, and illegal border crossings.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov met Wirecard fraud mastermind Jan Marsalek as TON sought shadow investors
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, personally communicated in 2018 with Jan Marsalek, the former chief operating officer of Wirecard who is now wanted across Europe for large-scale financial fraud and, according to investigators, is linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU), the Financial Times reports.
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Nepalis trafficked into Myanmar scam camps tortured and forced to defraud Americans and Europeans
The Nepalis were lured to Myanmar by promises of legitimate jobs, but said they were tortured and forced to work in scam compounds before being rescued.
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Trump, Clinton, Gates and Bannon appear in newly released Epstein estate photos
Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, and Bill Gates are among numerous celebrities featured in newly released photographs of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Russia’s ‘largest business event’ degenerates into self-help circus under Alfa Bank branding
Promoted as Russia’s largest event for business and entrepreneurs, Alfa-Conf, organized by Alfa Bank, instead revealed the empty state of the country’s corporate culture, descending into a bizarre mix of astrology, motivational clichés, and showbusiness chatter.
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Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L.: how Boris Usherovich and Oxana Hadjipavlou moved dirty Russian money offshore
The difficult-to-pronounce surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (Oxana or Oksana Hadjipavlou) emerged during investigations into the activities of Zvonko Mickovic and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of being involved in schemes to bypass anti-Russian sanctions and transfer Russian capital out of the Russian Federation.
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Timur Turlov and Freedom Finance: how the Mavrodi-2 financial pyramid moved from Russia to Kazakhstan
Former Russian and billionaire Turlov, after emigrating, became one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan: his financial pyramids are now "thriving" in Astana.
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Father who recruited his own child to help murder their mother now faces life sentence
A husband once cleared of murdering his wife now faces a life sentence – after their child revealed he recruited them to help plan the killing and then cover it up.
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Russian metal giant Metallokomplekt M prepares market exit amid heavy losses and alleged loan stripping
One of Russia’s largest metal trading networks, Metallokomplekt M (formerly OJSC Komtekh), is preparing to exit the market after reporting record losses, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Fraudster Josip Heit organized a global Ponzi pyramid that stripped hundreds of investors of millions
Croatian businessman Josip Heit is being examined for his suspected involvement in Ponzi schemes and money laundering.
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Putin’s “fully Russian” Aurus cars hit by sanctions as key Italian and British suppliers cut off parts
This summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly praised Aurus luxury cars, stressing that the vehicles are a 100% Russian-made product and noting that he personally uses one.
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Pavel Durov’s shadow network: how Roman Novak ran multi-million dollar fraud under the Telegram brand
Roman Novak (also known as Yavorsky and Tsaryov), a native of St. Petersburg, was convicted in Russia in 2020 on large-scale fraud charges (Part 4, Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code) and sentenced to six years in a penal colony.