Banking

A billion-dollar recruiting firm incorporated in Delaware wired payments to a relative and business partner of a senior Russian government official in 2013 and 2014, Forensic News can reveal after a review of leaked banking documents.  Those documents, interviews with sources who worked for the company, and other business and […]

Before Leonid Radvinsky acquired the now uber-popular, sex worker-driven subscription company OnlyFans, banks flagged his businesses numerous times and warned that Radvinsky may be laundering money and providing platforms to “underage children, and other vulnerable individuals [who] might be forced to provide services.” Forensic News has acquired multiple Suspicious Activity […]

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 […]