New Attack Against Ukraine’s Ex-Governor
The harassment of the former governor of Ukraine’s National Bank who revealed the biggest corruption scandal in the country...
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President’s Oligarch Friend Suspected of Theft Returns to Ukraine
A Ukrainian oligarch who allegedly masterminded the theft of US$5.5 billion from one of the country’s largest commercial...
Ukraine First Lady Bought Apartment from Tycoon Below Market Price
The wife of Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy bought in 2013 an upscale penthouse apartment on the Black Sea for...
With New President, Ukraine Mulls Reining in the Powerful
Days after comedian-turned politician Volodymyr Zelenskiy won Ukraine’s nationwide elections, both he and political...
Oligarchs Weaponized Cyprus Branch of Ukraine’s Largest Bank to Send $5.5 Billion Abroad
Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov stand accused of stealing $5.5 billion from PrivatBank, which held the deposits of a...
The Kolomoisky Family’s Hidden Swiss Assets
Larisa Chertok owns or has owned a lot of extremely nice things in Switzerland and France, from villas on the shores of Lake...
Using Gas Stations as ATMs
In 2015, a group of Ukrainian legislators investigated the country’s largest gas station business, an operation that sells...
Report: Corrupted Ukrainian Bank Lost US$5.5bn
Privatbank, Ukraine’s biggest lender, lost at least US $5.5 billion during a decade of systemic corruption, an investigation...
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Ukrainian Billionaires Exchanged Luxury London Real Estate in Secret Settlement
Journalists have called the case one of the most expensive in British history: One Ukrainian businessman demanded US $2...
Ukraine’s Top Bank Lent Owner’s Lieutenants $1 Billion Before Nationalization
Between mid-2015 and mid-2016, Privatbank, the largest bank in Ukraine, handed out over US$ 1 billion in loans to firms...
Latvian Banks Promote Money Laundering Companies
Documents leaked to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) from Latvian banks appear to offer...
Controversial Russian Bankers Target Crimea
Some of the first banks that streamed into Crimea after Russia wrested control of the region from Ukraine in 2014 were...