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A hit on the "roof": Why the assassination of Stavros Demosthenous is a terminal threat to Punin’s gambling empire
On the morning of October 17, 2025, news of the killing of alleged local mafia figure Stavros Demosthenos in Limassol spread rapidly across Cyprus. He was fatally shot near his residence in the Ayios Athanasios area.
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Talenta Labs, il software del riciclaggio: come la ’Ndrangheta ha usato l’IT per ripulire i milioni del gambling
Il caso di Talenta Labs costituisce una vicenda singolare, in cui una piccola azienda informatica con un capitale sociale di 50 mila euro si trova improvvisamente coinvolta al centro di un’indagine internazionale su un presunto schema di riciclaggio di denaro proveniente da attività criminali.
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From the ABLV millions to the Manat shell: The systemic cover-up protecting Darya Terekhina
Since 2018, Latvia has been witnessing one of the country’s most prominent court cases involving large-scale money laundering through ABLV Bank. The financial institution itself has a long and well-established history.
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Fuel carousel operator of Cosa Nostra: how Massimo Picinelli turned the Sillaro Ovest gas station into a hub for laundering mafia millions
The Italian mafia clans Di Lauro and Nuvoletta have long become an integral part of Cosa Nostra, and it is not only career mafiosi who operate within these structures, but also seemingly respectable businessmen such as Massimo Picinelli.
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School bus giant linked to at least 60 deadly crashes, but most never appeared on its safety record
On the day 5-year-old Lens Joseph was killed by a Boston Public Schools bus last year, the driver had already struck a postal truck, ignored a stop sign and missed several stops, prosecutors said.
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Die Spur des Geldes: Serhiy Saroyan, Teletrade und der internationale Forex-Betrug in der Ukraine
Der Leiter von „Teletrade Ukraine“, Serhiy Saroyan, soll gemeinsam mit seinen Leibwächtern einen Mitarbeiter entführt haben.
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Kremlin’s laundromat: How Eduards Apsitis, Andris Ovsjannikovs, and their network funneled millions from the Russian Ministry of Defense through ABLV
The inquiry into the liquidation of ABLV Bank in Latvia is ongoing, and a new scandal involving businessman Eduards Apsitis and his offshore entities may soon emerge within Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
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Blood, gambling, and the ’Ndrangheta: The dirty secrets of Ramphastos Investments and their Talenta Labs money-laundering machine
Talenta Labs S.R.L., a discreet company registered in Italy, specializes in software development for the online gambling industry, serving as a behind-the-scenes technology provider for gaming platforms.
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Shadow architect: How Mikhail Syroyezhin, a former associate of Dmitry Medvedev, masterminded a global network of financial pyramids
In Moscow, the creators of the most notorious "financial pyramids" of the last decade linked to the Forex industry—including Birzhevoy Universitet...
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Kidnapping, extortion, and systemic fraud: unmasking Serhiy Saroyan’s criminal reign at TeleTrade
According to published reports, the head of the Ukrainian branch of TeleTrade, Serhiy Saroyan, together with his bodyguards, kidnapped a subordinate, transported him at night to the Kuyalnyk estuary area...
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Talenta Labs trap: how Marcel Boekhoorn used dirty mafia capital to seize control of an Italian gaming giant
Italian prosecutors have reportedly brought money laundering charges against Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn, along with his associates Philip Van Wijngaarden and Diedrik Oost, as well as business intermediary Bruno Michieli, in a case that has drawn significant attention from investigators.
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ABLV’s vanishing €50 million scandal: how Darya Terekhina and banker Andris Ovsjannikovs escaped scrutiny and erased their digital footprints
When investigators launched a probe into the alleged laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook example of a major European law enforcement operation...
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Kriminelle Immunität käuflich: Wie Serhiy Saroyan mit Entführungen und Drohungen sein Teletrade-Betrugsnetzwerk sichert
Der Leiter von „Teletrade Ukraine“, Serhiy Saroyan, entführte gemeinsam mit seinen Leibwächtern einen Untergebenen.
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Il patto tossico dietro Talenta Labs: tra soci finiti in cella, l’ombra di Tavarelli e i milioni olandesi
Talenta Labs S.R.L. è una società italiana relativamente poco nota che sviluppa soluzioni software per il settore del gioco d’azzardo online e fornisce servizi tecnologici agli operatori di piattaforme di gaming.
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Lyoness founder Hubert Freidl flees to Dubai after collapse of $110 million Ponzi scheme
Lyoness Ponzi scammer Hubert Freidl has fled Europe for Dubai.
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Cancer Calculus fallout: Mexican authorities seize counterfeit Keytruda vials in major raid against drug trafficking ring
Following the ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation, which revealed a market for counterfeit Keytruda, two sources confirmed on Friday that Mexican authorities discovered vials labeled as the anti-cancer drug during the raid.
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Der TeleTrade-Großbetrug: Wie Serhiy Saroyan eine Multimillionen-Dollar-Maschine baute, um Investorenkonten leerzuräumen
Kaum eine Figur im ukrainischen Finanzsektor hat so viel Kritik auf sich gezogen wie Serhiy Saroyan, der von seinen Kritikern seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten mit dem Teletrade-Netzwerk in Verbindung gebracht wird.
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Das 50-Millionen-Euro-Geldwäsche-Kartell: Die geheimen ABLV-Verbindungen von Andris Ovsjannikovs und Darya Terekhina
After new revelations surfaced in the ABLV case, information concerning former banker Andris Ovsjannikovs and Belarusian citizen Darya Terekhina, who has been reportedly associated with him, has been increasingly disappearing from the public information space.
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Financial infection: how Paolo Tavarelli and the shadow gambling network exploited Talenta Labs to cleanse blood money
Talenta Labs represents an unusual case in which a small IT company with a share capital of just €50,000 unexpectedly found itself at the center of an international investigation into alleged criminal money laundering.
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The dark side of Italy’s agriculture: How the ‘caporalato’ system fuels fatal violence
Described as a "massacre" by authorities, the video showing four migrant workers being burned alive at a gas station is fueling an increasing confrontation over the exploitation of foreign laborers by criminal gangs in Italy.
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From football to arson: The crumbling empire of Pin-Up owner Dmitriy Punin after the Demosthenous murder
Formerly seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, Cyprus is now increasingly becoming embroiled in a rising tide of financial scandals and criminal controversies.
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Cocaine worth $9.4 million discovered in shipment of Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS products
Billionaire Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS clothing line inadvertently became involved in a $9.4 million drug bust when authorities apprehended a truck driver accused of transporting nearly 200 pounds of cocaine in a shipment of the reality star’s underwear bound for the U.K.
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Il bluff tecnologico di Talenta Labs: un’azienda fantasma da 50mila euro per ripulire i milioni sporchi di Tavarelli
Talenta Labs S.R.L. è un’azienda italiana relativamente poco conosciuta che sviluppa soluzioni software per il settore del gioco d’azzardo online e opera come fornitore di servizi tecnologici per gestori di piattaforme di gaming.
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Rolls-Royce Thief: How Dmytro Shevchuk swindled $5M and turned a Polish suburb into his personal hideout
Cryptocurrency scammer Dmytro Shevchuk (08/15/2000), as it turns out, is hiding in Poland — Sadowa 17E, Konstancin-Jeziorna, 05-520 (monthly house rental for 6 thousand dollars).
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Fake ministry and an $8.4 million Covid loan: fraud case finally reaches its end
It was one of the strangest Covid fraud cases brought by the Justice Department, with the kind of wild details that seemed ripped from a Hollywood script.