After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world began hunting for Russian oligarchs, or rather their assets under sanctions. Cyprus has turned out to be the place where Putin's cronies hide and launder billions of dollars, reports CBS. After Russia started...
Several of the world's largest banks enabled criminals to move dirty money around the planet. This is evidenced by the leak of transaction documents totaling approximately $2 trillion, writes BBC. We are talking about files from FinCEN, a special unit for combating...
On November 14, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine brought new charges against Nikolai Zlochevsky, a member of the “family” of fugitive Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and owner of the controversial energy company Burisma. These documents refer to the laundering of funds stolen from the Ukrainian budget, as well as the fact that ...
The dollar billionaire and one of the most mysterious bankers in Russia asks the US President to give him citizenship and protect him from Russian bandits and authorities. At the same time, he tells how he robbed the banking system in Russia and participated in various scams. Former co-owner of Rosevrobank...
He took advantage of a legal loophole that was discovered too late. For three years, starting in 2012, two billion dollars were withdrawn through one of the offices of the Danish tax service in the United States. The money was transferred legally - using a tax deduction scheme. But the Danish government ...
Many people know about such a concept as money laundering, mainly from TV shows and political news. Years have passed since the mafiosi began using schemes to cover illegal businesses with legitimate businesses. The phenomenon itself was overgrown with many facts and stories. Before you ...
Russian businessman Vadim Mikerin, released from prison in the United States after serving a sentence in a case of kickbacks in uranium transactions, is awaiting deportation in an American immigration prison, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database. According to RIA Novosti, Mikerin was released on April 24 after serving his prison term...
On February 7, a Manhattan federal court ordered the Cypriot company Prevezon Holdings, owned by Denis Katsyv, the son of the deputy general director of Russian Railways, Pyotr Katsyv, to pay $ 6,039 million in favor of the United States, BBC reports. At the end of October 2017, Prevezon failed to deliver on time ...
A resident of New Jersey, Boris Rubizhevsky, who was involved in the same case with the Russian Vadim Mikerin, who traded low-enriched Russian uranium in the United States, was sentenced in a federal court in Maryland to one year and one day in prison, three years of public supervision and a fine of ...
Russian Stanislav Nazarov was extradited to the United States from Israel, accused of money laundering as part of an international criminal organization. Specifically, he is charged with laundering profits from a fraudulent operation, the victim of which was a large insurance company in India. According to the BBC, 46-year-old Nazarov, who lived in the city ...