An onlinepetition urging the US Department of Justice to shut down porn site PornHub for hosting videos of sex trafficking victims has reached on Monday nearly 600,000 signatures after the website made its premium content free during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Companies that sell medical ventilators to the Russian government may have been conspiring to avoid competition and keep prices artificially high.

Rich Russians are buying ventilators for themselves, trying to make sure they will have the best possible care if they get sick during the global outbreak of COVID-19, TheMoscow Times reported Saturday.

Swedbank carried out almost 37 billion euros (US$40 billion) of transactions with a high risk of money laundering over five years, according to an internal investigation published on Monday that found the bank’s Baltic businesses actively chased risky customers.

Without the usual bidding process, Russian authorities awarded a US$190.000 contract toYevgeny Prigozhin, a restaurant and catering businessman close to the Kremlin, to provide food for Moscow’s COVID-19 hospital patients, theMoscow Times reported on Thursday.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that Russian authorities have blocked all of his bank accounts as well as those belonging to his family, including the one his 11-year-old son used to save money to buy a laptop and the ones his retired parents received their pensions on.

The US State Department banned a Bulgarian judge from entering the country on Wednesday because he was allegedly involved in “significant corruption,” said Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.

A Russian company is suing the French far-right party of Marine Le Pen for not paying back a loan it took to finance its 2017 pre-election campaign, the investigative website Open Media reported on Monday.

Russian hackers tried to steal emails and email credentials from the Ukrainian gas company that found itself last year at the center of a scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment, a US cybersecurity company said in areport published on Monday.

Russian authorities charged officers who last summer detained and allegedly beat investigative journalistIvan Golunov with abuse of power, the reporter revealed on Monday.

The three Russian investigative journalists who were killed in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2018, died in a robbery attempt, a senior Russian investigator said Monday in an interview with theKommersant business daily.

How the inner circle of a prominent Croatian businessman received Russian money for fake real-estate deals.

Russian state lender VTB has sued a Mozambican government company over an unpaid loan that is part of a US$ 2 billion multinational fraud scandal known as “tuna bonds,” which plunged the Mozambique into deep financial crisis,Reuters reported Monday.

Russian security forcesraided the Moscow-based headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) on Thursday, dragged its founder and leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny out andconfiscated technical equipment from the office,Reuters reported.

The U.S. government recently went after assets belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman close to Putin. But there’s more.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered the country’s Military Security Agency (VBA) to open an investigation shortly after a video was released this week showing an alleged Russian spy bribing a Serbian identified as a “Serbian high-positioned agent,”Serbian media reported.

Russian authorities seized more than 100 kilograms of narcotics, over 600 kilograms of chemicals that could be used to manufacture illegal drugs, along with a lot of other drug paraphernalia from drug traffickers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Tuesday. 

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), a successor agency to the Soviet KGB, could be involved in the disappearance of some US$450 million in cryptocurrency from one of the world’s largest online exchange platforms in the world, theBBC reported last week.

A former Russian minister charged in a major fraud case has lost millions of dollars in assets that have been seized by authorities who have taken legal actions against him since his March arrest, Russian-language online news outlet the Bell reported Thursday. 

Danske bank offered gold bars to wealthy clients to help them hide illicit Russian funds, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.