Washington is offering US$10 million for a tip that would help authorities prevent possible cyber interference in November elections.

At least $137 million of public funds was stolen from one of the world’s least developed countries through corrupt arms deals.

The UK’s primary opposition party has called for urgent action on illicit financial flows in the wake of damning revelations that the country’s government has failed to properly scrutinise and investigate the activities of wealthy Russian oligarchs with ties to the Kremlin.

For years the ICDO, a decades-old international organization based in Switzerland, functioned essentially as a front for the Russian government. The organization’s lack of transparency and dependence on Moscow also gave officials an opportunity to pad their pockets.

Alexey Navalny, Kremlin’s loudest critic,announced on Monday that his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) will be shut down due to the lofty fines Russian courts ordered them to pay for the alleged false or defamatory information against the country’s top officials.

A Russian police major died on Wednesday in what appears to be suicide she committed soon after she testified against her boss who is accused of criminal extortion, Russian media reported Thursday.

The U.S. Department of State announced on Wednesday sanctions against another two Russian companies that are believed to be financed by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a businessman close to Vladimir Putin who is allegedly financing dubious activities.

A Moscow city lawmaker said she discovered how contracts are being rigged by officials who use disappearing ink to adjust prices of infrastructure and other works and line their pockets with the difference.

Multiple major business conflicts in Russia have been swiftly resolved after one little-known businessman got involved. His tactics included outright intimidation — and references to the powerful Chechens who stood behind him.

Security forces in Russia have detained a regional governor on suspicion of orchestrating the 2005 murder of several entrepreneurs in the far east of the country.

Boston-based pharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said it will pay US$21.5 million to settle bribery and other violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

US cyber security experts say that Evil Corp, a Russian group of cybercriminals, has been targeting America’s most successful companies, known asFortune 500, in an effort to force them to pay millions in ransom.

In the largest restraint of funds in New Zealand’s history, the country’sAsset Recovery Unit froze on Monday NZD$140 million (US$91.12 million) from a company owned by Alexander Vinnik, a Russian citizen wanted by the US and France for laundering billions and by Russia for stealing millions.

Russia’s trash reforms were meant to close old landfills and introduce new waste management technologies across the country. But a year-long investigation by OCCRP member center IStories shows that large swathes of the market were quickly taken over by the wealthy and powerful.

A chessmaster who sent money to the mob, a mysterious change of ownership just after a dramatic police raid, and connections to a massive financial laundromat — these are just some of the unexpected stories behind Russia’s top sports betting company.

The wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister donated £325,000 (US$405,033) to Boris Johnson’s party in the first quarter of 2020 as he and his party continues to delay the publication of a report on Russian interference in the country’s political system that was completed in October.

Cyprus plans to tighten requirements for its ‘citizenship by investment’ programme following a warning from European authorities earlier this year that the scheme is vulnerable to exploitation by criminals.

A day after her trial over an unpaid loan started in Moscow, the French far-right party of Marine Le Pen reached an agreement with its Russian creditor, the Moscow arbitration tribunal confirmed on Wednesday.

Russian authorities found 70 tons of European cheeses smuggled into the country as construction material which shows how Kremlin’s six-year-old political decision to ban import of food from the EU has given organized crime another opportunity to profit from sanctions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed last week that hackers tied to the Russian military intelligence, GRU, have compromised her email accounts and those of other Bundestag lawmakers back in 2015.