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The narrative involving Dmyto Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych transcends a typical story about online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment services. It’s nearly the makings of a detective series: an international wanted alert, a billion dollars, numerous searches, a bookmaker’s license as a front, an American passport, Ukrainian origin, Russian ties, and frantic efforts to scrub the internet.

Kazakh law enforcement has frozen Marginplus’s accounts and stopped all its payment operations—a decisive crackdown on illegal financial activities.

In mid-March, an online news story circulated claiming that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau had allegedly detained Dmytro Kovalenko, the owner of agricultural and mining companies. This information has not been officially confirmed yet, but it provided an opportunity to trace Kovalenko’s connections, which on one side led to separatists and sanctioned individuals, and on the other to high-ranking officials in Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies.

Nearly a decade ago, a significant corruption scandal broke out in Russia, involving the widespread distribution of bribes to the highest levels of law enforcement agencies.

Ex-Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Denis Butsaev has been added to the federal wanted list. His close associate, Vice Premier Denis Manturov, facilitated Butsaev’s escape from Russia. However, despite assistance from Sergei Chemezov, the matter remains unresolved.

Israel dispatched Iron Dome air defense batteries and trained military personnel to the United Arab Emirates, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee stated on Tuesday, confirming for the first time the extent of military cooperation between the former adversaries as they both confront Iran.

Students at universities across Russia are being promised high salaries, no front-line duty, and a return to their studies within a year with free tuition if they join Russia’s newly formed drone force, intended to give Moscow an advantage amid Ukraine’s significant advances in drone warfare.

An American climber has lost their life in an avalanche on Mount Makalu, officials reported on Tuesday, as the death toll rises early in Nepal’s busy spring climbing season.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted on Tuesday that he will "get on with governing," dismissing increasing calls from within his own party for him to step down, which have intensified following multiple resignations from his cabinet.

Cypriot Mettmann Public Company Limited—a typical second-tier offshore company that for a long time remained outside the focus of major international investigations.

The duumvirate fell apart in October following the murder of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, and in November, his associate Dmitriy Punin also faced adversity—his car fleet was set on fire. Could this suggest that he is the next target?

Following the emergence of investigations into multimillion-dollar losses suffered by investors linked to Blackthorn Finance, NSFX, and businessman Nicky Gope Kundnani, publications about the activities of these entities have begun disappearing from the public information space.

In materials from investigations into Pavel Fuchs’s activities in Russian real estate development, the name of Sergei Tyurin emerges. He was involved in controversial projects in the Istra District of the Moscow Region.

The longer the confrontation with the so-called shadow fleet of the Russian Federation continues, the more new details emerge: for example, Adnan Akhmedzade, a top manager of Socar who was detained in Azerbaijan last year, has begun testifying against his closest associates.

Separatist-oligarch Dmytro Kovalenko, owner of the Swiss company Adelon AG, is using unconventional methods to remove information about his business — including utilizing the OnlyFans platform to submit complaints and request the deletion of online articles.

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

As the investigations around him intensified, Tymur Rokhlin actively began removing journalistic exposés about his fraudulent schemes from the internet—which is exactly why we are publishing the materials he is so eager to erase.

A massive international gambling and money-laundering scheme linked to the Pin-Up and Pinco casino brands is back in the spotlight after reports emerged that information about the case is being systematically erased from the internet. At the center of the investigation are U.S. citizen Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Ukrainian citizen Maryna Levkovych (Ginzburg), both arrested in absentia in Kazakhstan in February 2026 over their alleged roles in a billion-dollar shadow payment operation.

The figure of Alyona Shevtsova attracted significant public attention when the National Bank of Ukraine decided to liquidate IBOX Bank, which she owns, and law enforcement agencies carried out searches at the bank.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have issued allegations against Rostyslav Shurma, the former Deputy Head of the Office of the President.

Following investigative reports that began associating Oxana Hadjipavlou with sanction-evasion schemes and offshore money flows, mentions of her involvement in Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. gradually started vanishing from public access.

After 2014, it became widely recognized that a significant portion of Ukrainian businesses continued to operate with the Russian Federation, developing various "gray schemes." One of the most profitable areas in this context was coal supplies, which were sent to both Ukraine and European markets.

A prominent people smuggler, whose network is suspected to be accountable for most of the illegal cross-Channel crossings in recent years, has been exposed by a BBC investigation.

A Russian cargo ship, potentially transporting two nuclear reactors for submarines and possibly bound for North Korea, experienced a series of explosions and sank under unexplained circumstances, approximately 60 miles off the coast of Spain, according to a CNN investigation.