September 3, 2021 3:03 pm
Scott Stedman
[playht_player width=”100%” height=”90px” voice=”en-US-JennyNeural”] Shipping records reveal that a lesser-known affiliate of the hack-for-hire company NSO Group supplied equipment in 2020 to Uzbekistan’s national intelligence agency (SGB), often referred to as a “secret police” force with a record of brutality and oppression. NSO Group creates hacking tools that governments […]
July 16, 2021 12:05 pm
Scott Stedman, Adrienne Cobb and Matt Bernardini
A media company connected to former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, set up to produce a documentary in 2020 about alleged corruption by Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine conducted much more work than publicly known, including a previously unreported engagement with disgraced ex-Ukrainian prosecutor, Kostiantyn Kulyk. […]
July 6, 2021 12:17 pm
Scott Stedman
Prosecutors involved in the wide-ranging investigation into Central Florida political figures including Congressman Matt Gaetz have recently scrutinized a key ally of disgraced former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, who has since pled guilty to multiple charges including sex trafficking of a child, wire fraud, stalking, and conspiracy. The […]
June 1, 2021 12:42 pm
Aaron Parnas
Newly discovered shipping records demonstrate one of the first known instances of a private Israeli cyber intelligence company working directly with former KGB and current FSB officials who are authorized to maintain Russian state secrets. Rayzone Group, a Tel Aviv-based cyber intelligence/spyware company, received a shipment from the Engineering and […]
April 30, 2021 1:18 pm
Scott Stedman and Matt Bernardini
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani has expanded to include Russia’s spy activities in the 2020 U.S. election, multiple sources tell Forensic News. The criminal investigation, which led to a dramatic raid of Giuliani’s home and office this week, has for months […]
April 9, 2021 12:24 pm
Scott Stedman and Matt Bernardini
Michael Caputo, a former senior aide to Donald Trump, who spent decades working in Russia and former Soviet states, failed to disclose a lavish painting gifted to him by a Ukrainian lobbying group in 2020. The review of Caputo’s lobbying comes after a recent report from the Office of Director […]
March 3, 2021 12:17 pm
Scott Stedman and Aaron Parnas
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 […]
February 11, 2021 1:08 pm
Scott Stedman
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 […]