Section: Investigations
U.S. agents have obtained documents on Paul Manafort in eastern Europe inquiry
Treasury department agents received information about the former Trump campaign chairman`s offshore transactions, a source tells the AP. U.S. treasury department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving Donald Trump`s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption...
Full video how former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov was shot dead in Kyiv (Update)
Chief of the Ukrainian National Police department for Kyiv Andriy Kryshchenko officially stated that former deputy of the Russian State Duma Denis Voronenkov has been shot dead downtown Kyiv. Unknown man (perhaps a killer) shot dead by Voronenkov’s bodygard. Former Russian State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov says Denis Voronenkov, also a...
Sophisticated scheme of money laundering from Russia to EU, U.S. revealed
The Laundromat is a name given by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to a vast money-laundering scheme involving Russian officials and insiders moving billions of dollars into Europe, the U.S. and other countries between autumn 2010 and spring 2014, according to The Guardian. Law enforcement officers in Moldova and Latvia have...
Manafort wanted for questioning in Ukraine corruption case
Ukrainian prosecutors want to question Paul Manafort in connection with a corruption investigation and have made repeated requests for assistance from U.S. authorities, CNN has learned. Prosecutors in Kyiv said they have made seven separate appeals over the past two years for help in questioning President Donald Trump`s former campaign manager,...
Ukraine chief prosecutor`s rep: Ukrspecexport`s ex-head out on bail in London
Former head of Ukraine`s trader in arms Ukrspecexport Serhiy Bondarchuk, who is accused of large-scale embezzlement and faces extradition to Ukraine, has posted bail and should not leave London until a court schedules a date for hearings on his extradition, according to Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko`s press secretary Larysa Sargan....
Case of downed Il-76: defense requests Ukrainian General`s acquittal
The lawyers of Major-General Viktor Nazarov have filed an acquittal motion a high-ranking official ”due to the absence of a criminal offense in his actions,” Radio Liberty reports, referring to the statement by Nazarov`s lawyer Mikhail Turik in the Pavlohrad district court (Dnipropetrovsk region), where the case is heard into the shooting down of...
Chief taxman Nasirov free on bail, wearing ankle monitor
Chairman of Ukraine`s State Fiscal Service (SFS) Roman Nasirov, who has been suspended for the period of trial on charges of abuse of power, is now free on bail after his wife posted UAH 100 million, or $US3.7 million, for him on Thursday evening. Nasirov has thanked his family for having collected ”that crazy amount.” ”I disagree with this very...
No grounds to stop investigation against Yanukovych, case to be forwarded to court soon – PGO
There are no grounds to stop a special pre-trial investigation against former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko`s press secretary Larysa Sargan wrote on Facebook. ”We emphasize once again: there is only one reason for stopping a special pre-trial investigation – that`s if suspect Yanukovych...
Court of Appeals refuses to increase Nasirov`s bail to UAH 2 bln
Kyiv`s Court of Appeals on Monday has left unchanged the decision of Kyiv`s Solomyansky District Court on taking Chairman of Ukraine`s State Fiscal Service (SFS) Roman Nasirov, who has been charged with abuse of power, into a pre-trial custody for the period of two months, with a bail set at UAH 100 million, according to an UaPosition...
Putin`s fan shot by Canadian police after trying to attack a policeman with a knife. His last Facebook post: “Russia will defeat everybody!”
Deputy Chief of Edmonton Police Service Kevin Brezinski said police received two calls of a driver they believed to be impaired. Both the suspect and the officer got out of their vehicles. A six-year veteran of the force pulled over the vehicle at 1:43 p.m. “Once the vehicle was stopped, the police officer and the driver of the vehicle both...