A businessman charged with large-scale bank fraud appears to be a central figure in the international Wirecard investigation and was reported to Cypriot authorities in 2017 for alleged money laundering. Companies controlled by Hamid “Ray” Akhavan, were also repeatedly flagged in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in the U.S. and elsewhere […]
Corporate documents exclusively obtained by Forensic News show that the Trump Organization’s formal legal advisor who was tapped as Trump’s Representative for International Negotiations in the Middle East managed the Delaware LLC with a Chinese bank account recently revealed by the New York Times. The advisor, Jason Greenblatt, was just one […]
A small financial institution in Russia whose owner has been called a “front” for Russian intelligence services quietly moved $330 million dollars into an account at Deutsche Bank’s New York branch by 2013, according to documents exclusively obtained by Forensic News. By the fall of 2013, Yugra Bank (or “Jugra”; […]
A Deutsche Bank branch in the United States is under increasing scrutiny for its extensive relationship with a Ukrainian bank that the US Department of Justice has said laundered billions into US real estate, according to exclusively obtained documents and interviews with people familiar with the matter. The New York-based […]
In August 2019, the Russian military deployed for the first time a new unmanned surveillance drone that greatly expands the spying capabilities of the Russian state. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, called the Altius-U, is “very important to the Ministry of Defense” according to Samuel Bendett, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at […]
Court documents, source interviews, and a confidential report by the business intelligence company Kroll reviewed by Forensic News show that a partner who handled credit card processing for the marijuana delivery business Eaze and who was arrested by the FBI on bank fraud charges relating to his work for the […]
A Russian government-controlled bank deposited at least half a billion dollars into the American subsidiary of Deutsche Bank around the time that the bank lent Trump his most scrutinized loans, according to exclusively obtained confidential bank records. As Trump received loans from the subsidiary, DBTCA, totaling over $360 million, Gazprombank […]
Deutsche Bank’s loans to Donald Trump were underwritten by Russian state-owned VTB Bank, according to the whistleblower whose collection of thousands of bank documents and internal communications have captured the recent attention of federal investigators. Val Broeksmit acquired the emails and files of his late father, Deutsche Bank executive William […]
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