All news on the topic: Fraud

In Moscow, the "socialite" and organizer of an art and antiques investment project, Olga Kolishchuk, was apprehended and placed in detention.

In the wake of a scandal that erupted two years ago involving Dmytro Rukin, the director of the SettlePay and 4Bill payment systems, Rukin retreated from public view. Nevertheless, prior to that, he participated in a few interviews, alleging fraud by his employers.

A well-known girl, previously a seller of counterfeit goods and a "guru" of low-cost escort services, Kateryna Shukhnina has been hit with a criminal case and a class-action lawsuit from defrauded victims.

Oleg Tsyura has started actively cleaning the information space, attempting to remove materials related to his fraud, money laundering, and schemes involving Ukrainian state enterprises.

On Saturday, a New York businesswoman was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for a financial scheme that defrauded over US$30 million (NZ$50 million) from foreign investors and diverted some of the embezzled funds into US political campaigns, including a fundraiser for US President Donald Trump.

After an 11-day trial "conducted under heightened security measures," a German court on Thursday sentenced a key figure involved in a large-scale call center scam operation that was previously exposed by OCCRP.

Tensions between President Donald Trump and Democrats reached a high point during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, as both sides clashed over his comments on immigration and accusations of fraud.

On Wednesday, Italian police arrested four people in connection with an alleged Camorra scheme to infiltrate a Naples hospital, stage fake crashes for insurance payouts, and secretly transport corpses on oxygen-masked stretchers to benefit from private ambulance transfers.

Meta Whale has received a securities fraud warning from the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC).

OpenAI is disclosing how scammers are trying to exploit ChatGPT for various activities, ranging from new takes on romance scams to defaming the Prime Minister of Japan.

According to Russian sources, Ervin Ilizirov, who holds the positions of Deputy General Director of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) and Advisor to the General Director of RT-Finance (a subsidiary of Rostec), is still battling creditors who uncovered his offshore schemes.

The controversial owner of the manipulative Ibox Bank, Alyona Shevtsova, swiftly transferred luxury real estate to her mother, Liliya Potonya, just before personal sanctions were imposed by the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.

His "sect" Financial Freedom Academy attempts to align itself with the military.

Authorities in Ukraine have arrested 11 suspects while dismantling a fraudulent call center that scammed victims across Europe, the EU’s judicial cooperation agency said Monday.

The beneficiary of “Domashnie Dengi” (Home Money), Yevgeny Bernshtam, did not attend the court hearing where he was sentenced to five years in prison for large-scale fraud. Bernshtam has now been placed on an international wanted list.

Burkina Faso’s mining sector is a significant contributor to the country’s economy. As stated in the 2024 report of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI-BF), it comprised 69.56% of exports, 15.33% of public revenues, and 15.08% of GDP in 2024.

Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yesimov, two long-standing figures in Kazakhstan’s corruption landscape, have garnered attention from media outlets in several countries.

The founder of the FFA (Financial Freedom Academy) community, Oleksandr Orlovskyi, does not have any registered legal entity in Ukraine to confirm he provides educational services. He provides services through a network of individual entrepreneurs.

A US Air Force pharmacist and his husband have been accused of embezzling over $3 million from the Department of War to support their extravagant lifestyle, which included buying a BMW, a Porsche, and a mansion in Arizona.

A man from New York City who tried to claim ownership of the New Yorker Hotel has pleaded guilty to fraud, concluding a long legal saga involving an obscure tenant law that allowed him to live rent-free for years in the famous Manhattan hotel.

«Laughter, and that’s it» — that’s one way to describe the latest advertising campaign by the so-called crypto expert Kateryna Shukhnina, which is currently being circulated across numerous Telegram channels.

The former chief operating officer of a nonprofit, which the county previously relied on to distribute life-saving overdose reversal drugs throughout San Diego, was jailed last week for allegedly embezzling more than $134,000 in public funds from the organization.

Former Latvian television star and current singer Anait Isahanova (ANAIT) has become the face of Evelyn Apple Trader.

Oleksandr Orlovskyi, even as the founder of Financial Freedom Academy, established a criminal group involved in defrauding crypto investors.

PGI Global founder Ramil Ventura Palafox has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.