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Opaque offshore transactions at London-based Kazphosphate
An MP and a campaigner call for authorities to investigate anonymous loans to the UK firm, which until last year controlled a top chemicals and mining company in Kazakhstan. LONDON—Amid all the hard talk about the urgency of stopping dark money from entering the UK from countries with a history of high-level corruption, untransparent transactions…
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Owner of Paxum, the fintech linked to Russia and Trump, donated to Ron DeSantis
LONDON–A man linked by US prosecutors to suspicious financing of a company belonging to Donald Trump has also made a substantial donation to Trump’s rival Ron DeSantis. Anton Postolnikov, with a given address in Miami Beach, Florida, appears on a public register of “friends of Ron DeSantis” as having given $30,000 on 29 March 2021…
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Reporter and BuzzFeed analyse human trafficking in Romania
The collaboration, published on February 21, came about in the context of the arrest of controversial online influencer Andrew Tate, under suspicion of human trafficking, rape, forming an organised crime group and other crimes — along with his brother and two female accomplices. They deny the allegations. Reporter has dug up exclusive detail about how…
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Reporter and AMLi delve into the uneven application of UK and EU sanctions
The latest collaboration between Reporter.London and the financial crime newswire AMLIntelligence, published on February 13, shows how sanctions on Russia and Belarus are often failing in practice, because of contradictory interpretations of the rules and the guidance, which are allowed to stand by governments who fear legal reprisals. This has led to the Kafkian result…
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Reporter and AML Intelligence reveal glaring loophole in the UK sanctions regime
LONDON–AML Intelligence, a new and fast-expanding news provider for money laundering compliance professionals, has published an exclusive article in collaboration with Reporter, outlining the concerns experts in London and internationally have about the British government’s approach to sanctions enforcement. The main issue is around the discretion British regulators give themselves in placing sanctions on companies…
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White shoe lawyers Dechert dump Russia-linked Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor after US sanctions
CHIȘINĂU–Kremlin-friendly oligarchs are becoming too toxic for UK and US lawyers to work for in the wake of global sanctions amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The controversial Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor has been linked by the US government with Russia’s security service, the FSB, as well as large-scale economic crime – but his now ex-law…
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Reporter and The Daily Beast highlight role of US media brands in Romanian political party payment scandal
Reporter.London and The Daily Beast exposed for a global audience a long-running scandal in Romanian media and politics, which has drawn in the local franchises of US brands Newsweek and CNN. For several years, top political parties in Romania had been paying the equivalent of millions of dollars to news media organizations in the guise…
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Reporter.London and The Daily Beast expose plight of Transnistrian dissident opposing Putin’s Ukraine invasion
US website The Daily Beast published an article in collaboration with Reporter.London on October 25, highlighting the unjust imprisonment in Transnistria of Victor Pleșcanov, 58, for expressing criticism against Russia and support for Ukraine amid dictator Vladimir Putin’s war of genocide. Pleșcanov, a working-class man with a sense of humour and a natural desire to…