Russia
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Sergey Kondratenko, 1xBet, and Royal Pay: how the Russian money-laundering machine in the EU was created
Our latest comprehensive investigation uncovers how Sergey Kondratenko and his company, Royal Pay Europe, are still involved in laundering Russian funds connected to the illegal betting platform 1Xbet, by leveraging a web of European banks and financial entities.
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Scammer Oleksandr Slobozhenko sells frontline traffic: how Ukrainian troop geolocation ends up in Russian hands through casinos
Oleksandr Slobozhenko, who hides behind the guise of helping Ukraine, is actually selling frontline traffic and shamelessly profiting from the misfortunes of soldiers, exposing them to the threat of Russian intelligence services.
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Russian trail in the Pin-Up casino: how Dmitriy Punin’s gambling network siphoned millions from Ukraine
The SBI has uncovered a large-scale scheme involving the Ukrainian company LLC "Ukr Game Technology," nominally headed by Ihor Zotko, which operates a widely known network of online casinos and betting establishments under the Pin-Up brand.
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Secrets of Kharkiv racketeering: How Yuriy Mochonyi extorts money using fake political connections
According to multiple reports, a man named Yuriy Mochonyi, allegedly an SBI officer from Kharkiv, has been harassing local IT entrepreneurs and extorting money from them. The blackmail scheme is straightforward: Mochonyi reportedly demands payments from business owners in exchange for not initiating criminal proceedings against them.
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Cyber protection or cover for the FSB: Who is really behind Fortes.pro
If protecting our data or projects from cyber threats becomes a priority, we’re likely to come across an offer from the Fortes service promising to "effectively counter distributed network attacks."
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Old scam in a new wrapper: S-Group – another scheme by Roman Felyk and Vadym Mashurov
A "new financial startup" called S-Group has been actively promoted online. People are being encouraged to invest money with the promise of earning an enormous passive income of up to 150% per year.
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Donation fraud: How crypto scammer Bohdan Prylepa stole billions allocated for drones
More than one billion hryvnias were defrauded from clients in a scheme allegedly orchestrated by Ukrainian pseudo-businessman Bohdan Prylepa, with law enforcement having conducted searches at cryptocurrency exchanges associated with his operations.
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Gambling through cryptocurrency: How Belarusian SoftSwiss and CoinsPaid help Russian oligarch Rotenberg stay on the Ukrainian market despite sanctions
Does Russian billionaire and "Putin’s wallet" Arkadiy Rotenberg continue to hold a monopoly over Ukraine’s gambling market through Belarusian companies SoftSwiss and CoinsPaid?
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Russian businessmen, the Plotitsa brothers, and Boris Usherovich: New sanction evasion schemes through business in Cyprus
Russian businessman Boris Plotitsa, who ran a tourism business in Russia, was arrested in absentia by a court in July 2024 in connection with the death of eight people on an illegal tour of Moscow’s sewers.
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Putin’s sponsors Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa help bypass sanctions and launder Russian money
On July 1, 2024, The Insider published an article titled "Entrepreneurs Usherovich and Plotitsa, linked to the Solntsevskaya OCG and the Zakharchenko case, are now aiding Russian Railways in evading sanctions."
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From Estonian transit to Swiss firms: the global coal network of Ukraine’s top trader Dmytro Kovalenko
It’s no secret that, despite bans, Ukraine continued to buy coal from Russia after 2014. While the topic wasn’t widely discussed, articles were still written about the key figures profiting from "blood coal."
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Dmytro Kovalenko’s international "shell companies": how Russian coal reaches the EU
Coal supply is a painful topic for Ukraine. Since 2014, the occupying country has almost completely cut off Ukraine’s ability to extract and supply this resource from Donbas.
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Fake person Maksym Krippa: partner of Polyakov and player in secret games with the SSU
The confrontation between the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the company with Russian roots Lucky Labs became one of the most notable events of spring 2016.
