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EXCLUSIVE: UK helped detect Russian tycoon’s $107M crypto war chest linked to Moldovan election interference
The move helped Moldova’s pro-EU side stem election interference by the Kremlin and the research obtained is being used in at least four ongoing prosecutions, reporter.london and partners can reveal. CITY OF LONDON–A discreet Moldovan-British government operation exposed and disrupted a $107 million stablecoin slush fund used for election interference ahead of Moldova’s make-or-break 2025…
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DRONE DISPATCH: civil unrest puts painter Edi Rama’s Albanian canvas in perspective
Protests in Tirana over offshore-financed development deal reveal an Albania that the longstanding leader’s foreign admirers won’t see. DALAN BEACH–The video is only a few seconds long. A protester confronts private security at a 30 May demonstration against a controversial tourism development at Zvërnec on the Albanian coast, connected to the Trump family. A guard…
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Stalled UAE recovery of $45M resurfaces in Parliament amid diplomatic tensions
CITY OF LONDON—With Iranian drones and missiles targeting the skyscrapers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates has been pushing for closer ties with the United Kingdom. But there is growing unease that the UK is giving more than it gets. City insiders point to an Emirati judge’s refusal to recognise a $40…
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reporter.london and DfS: prominent Ukrainians slam British think tank for alleged pro-Russian bias, Moscow links
reporter.london teamed up with DfS (not the sofa company, but you might still want to sit down for this) on an exclusive story analysing allegations of Russian influence at a leading energy policy think tank in Oxford. CITY OF LONDON–reporter.london and Democracy for Sale, a highly popular Substack ran by top journalist Peter Geoghegan, documented…
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Experts question Bahamas bank Deltec’s treatment of Cambodian fraud account amid ongoing US probe
The timeline of events around an account cited by US law enforcement as processing scam funds by a Cambodian company at Deltec Bank, indicates the lender’s compliance team may have missed opportunities to act, according to money laundering experts. CITY OF LONDON–The US and UK governments in October 2025 sanctioned the Prince Group of Cambodia…
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Announcing: Financial Geopolitics, a newsletter by reporter.london
CITY OF LONDON–Since we launched in 2022, our hard-hitting investigations have revealed malfeasance, sanctions violations and fraud, and contributed information in the public sphere that led to tens of millions of dollars in penalties, recoveries and freezing orders being written by Western governments. We now step up the activity of reporter.london to provide our readers…
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AMLi and reporter.london test the Cayman Islands’ new corporate ownership registry
LONDON–In another exclusive story resulting from a collaboration between AML Intelligence, the premium newswire for anti-money laundering professionals, and reporter.london, it is revealed that despite its advertised transparency, the new beneficial ownership corporate registry of the Cayman Islands leaves much to be desired. In short, reporter.london applied to the Caymans government to find out who…
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EXCLUSIVE: Kremlin’s sanctioned crypto payment network has Budapest link
LONDON–A multi-billion-dollar, supposedly “sanctions-proof” international payment system backed by the Kremlin and sanctioned by the West, has been associated with a business in downtown Budapest – staffed by a Latvian go-karting enthusiast – since December 2024. Leaked documents corroborated by reporter.london with open-source reporting suggest there is a risk that Hungarian company MiddleAsiaTrade House kft,…
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‘Anti-democratic’: Georgian activists slam US oil firm for political lobbying
An email from the CEO of the oil firm, seen by reporter.london, implies that the company plans a return to the country after years of controversy. LONDON–Top Georgian opposition and civil society figures have criticised a US oil company for lobbying against international measures aimed at the country’s Georgian Dream party government, which is in…
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Fugitive Moldovan tycoon recruits top Russian bankers to run sanctions-busting crypto firm: leak
CITY OF LONDON–Senior executives from Russia’s mainstream banking sector have joined an avowedly sanctions-proof crypto and payments firm at the heart of the Kremlin’s strategy to disrupt the West, leaked documents show. The documents reveal, in granular detail, the emerging sanctions evasion tactics and election interference campaigns run by fugitive Moldovan businessman Ilan Shor, who…
