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.

Russian authorities may seize the assets of relatives and friends of those convicted of corruption if not provided proof that the assets were lawfully obtained, the Russian state news agencyTASS reported Tuesday.

An intelligence report, which was supposed to be published this week and which publication the Cabinet of the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson blocked last week, names nine Russian businessmen who donated to the Conservative Party,The Sunday Times reported.

Corrupt officials around the World have mastered the art of hiding bribe money, but a Moscow transport security officer has come up with a new, pretty unhealthy method on Wednesday when he stuffed his mouth with banknotes and tried to swallow them as he saw police approaching his office.

Moscow authorities launched a criminal investigation on Thursday, after 29 school children with food poisoning symptoms have been hospitalized, the Moscow Interregional Investigative Directorate said in astatement.

As the US tried through sanctions to limit Venezuela’s involvement in the global financial system as a way to oust Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro, Russia shipped loads of cash to the South American country.

A Moscow court ordered on Thursday two catering companies to compensate the families of schoolchildren who suffered food poisoning with the equivalent of US$4,700, days after it ordered an NGO to pay nearly 300 times that much to one of the companies for reporting about the incident.

A Moscow court ordered on Monday the foundation of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to pay 88 million Russian rubles (US$1.4 million) to an alleged protege of the Russian President for blaming his company for food poisoning in Moscow schools and kindergartens last year,Kommersant reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin opened on Wednesday the first ever Russia-Africa Summit, which gathered dozens of African leaders in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, promising them “no-strings-attached business and protection from Western pressure,” but also from China, RT reported.