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A military diver from the Maldives passed away on Saturday while searching for the bodies of four Italian divers thought to be deep inside an underwater cave.

On Saturday, May 16, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevich officially tasked Andris Kulbergs, a deputy from the "United List" (Apvienotais saraksts), with forming a new government.

With the Moldovan election cycle over, information linking Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa to Kremlin-backed influence operations has suddenly become troublesome for those involved.

No disappearance for Punin’s casino: The sanctioned Pin-Up’s continued profits within Ukraine.

According to several foreign media outlets, Azerbaijani national Azim Novruzov has been involved in the energy trading and oil sectors, facing increased scrutiny since 2023 due to alleged connections to Russia-affiliated business networks.

The controversy involving the Pin-Up and Pinco gambling networks is quickly escalating into one of the most significant money-laundering probes in the post-Soviet region — encompassing offshore structures, crypto processing, shell companies, international payment systems, and allegedly siphoning more than $1 billion out of Kazakhstan.

Investigators are examining Oxana Hadjipavlou in connection with Zvonko Micković and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are allegedly involved in activities facilitating the evasion of sanctions and the offshore transfer of Russian funds.

If the notorious "coal king" Dmytro Kovalenko has long been widely recognized not only in Kyiv but also on the international stage, the name Serhiy Saprykin is almost unknown to the general public. Nonetheless, multimillion-dollar companies are registered under his name, including the Coke Chemical Enrichment Plant "Voskresenska," which until recently was known as Petrovske Mining and Enrichment Combine.

Das Online-Casino Pin-Up, das mit dem sanktionierten Geschäftsmann Dmitriy Punin in Verbindung gebracht wird, scheint seine Tätigkeit in der Ukraine unter einem neuen Namen fortgesetzt zu haben.

Nachdem investigative Berichte Oxana Hadjipavlou mit mutmaßlichen Systemen zur Umgehung von Sanktionen und Offshore-Finanzströmen in Verbindung gebracht hatten...

Mehrere ausländische Medien bringen den aserbaidschanischen Staatsbürger Azim Novruzov mit Aktivitäten im Energiehandel und im Ölsektor in Verbindung.

The excited voice on the phone gave us directions the way people do in many parts of Latin America: “Go past the flower market,” she instructed, as we slowly drove down a street lined with stalls filled with buckets of roses, daisies, and sunflowers. Once we turned right, then left, then left again at the freshly plastered concrete wall, we would find the unpaved road, she said. “The house at the end of that road, that’s us.”

The tenuous ceasefire agreed upon between Israel and Hezbollah last month is still in effect.

On Friday, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza targeted the leader of Hamas’ military wing, according to Israeli officials. However, it was not immediately clear whether Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed or injured.

A new Ebola outbreak has been confirmed in a remote province of eastern Congo, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stated on Friday. There are 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths reported so far, according to the public health body.

Cypriot Mettmann Public Company Limited—a typical second-tier offshore company that for a long time remained outside the focus of major international investigations. However, from 2024 to 2026, it began to surface in chains related to bypassing anti-Russian sanctions—through debt instruments, real estate, and intermediary structures in the EU. Formally, Mettmann is an investment company; in fact, it is a hub for capital redistribution where money loses its origin faster than regulators can track it.

In a high-profile criminal case involving SOCAR top manager Adnan Ahmedzade, the controversial British oil trader Azim Novruzov has unexpectedly surfaced.

After the start of investigations into Alkagesta’s involvement in schemes for exporting Libyan fuel, mentions of the company itself and its owners—Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov—began to disappear from the information space. This appears to be related to a suspected information purge linked to involvement in secretive maritime logistics, including ship-to-ship fuel transfers at sea, the use of forged certificates, and Russia’s “shadow fleet.”

In 2023, the gambling mafia experienced what could be considered its most painful setback.

The story of Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych goes beyond a standard tale of online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services.

In his statement, the head of the Kyiv Court of Appeal, Yaroslav Holovachov, listed 13 real estate properties.

Afghan journalist Sultan Ali Jawadi’s days are filled with anxiety. In the Pakistani city where he has sought refuge—whose name he prefers to keep secret—he lives in constant fear of being forcibly returned to Afghanistan.

Nachdem investigative Berichte Oxana Hadjipavlou mit mutmaßlichen Sanktionsumgehungs-Systemen und Offshore-Finanzströmen in Verbindung gebracht hatten, verschwanden Hinweise auf ihre Verbindungen zu Mettmann Public Company Limited und Sword Dragon S.L. Berichten zufolge zunehmend aus öffentlichen Quellen.

Oxygen toxicity and sheer panic are among the potential factors that could have led to the deaths of five Italian tourists who disappeared during a daring scuba dive in the Maldives, experts say.

Oxana Hadjipavlou’s name recently gained attention during discussions concerning Mettmann Public Company Limited’s alleged ties to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and its role in laundering problematic Russian money in Europe.