Halil Falyali, a Turkish Cypriot businessman known for his flashy lifestyle and political connections, was shot dead in 2022. Behind the scenes, he allegedly ran a sprawling illegal online betting empire, according to Turkish prosecutors and his former head of finance, who spoke exclusively to OCCRP.
People working for Abramovich designed a corporate structure to give the false impression that the billionaire’s yachts were being commercially chartered to third parties, and therefore eligible for tax breaks.
Leaked documents show a long-term professional relationship between a Moscow-based law firm co-founded by a Russian politician and Nicos Chr. Anastasiades & Partners, the law firm founded by former Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades.
Philippine authorities have charged Huang Zhiyang with human trafficking, sued him for alleged money laundering, and frozen his accounts. But they were unaware of funds he holds in Cyprus.
A history of immigration fraud didn’t catch up with the lawyer for over a decade
Financial sponsors behind the Freedom and Fairness lobby group trip include Turkish Cypriot hoteliers
Two companies that Russian state banker Andrei Kostin allegedly used to control a pair of megayachts were transferred to secretive Cyprus investment funds on the eve of the Ukraine invasion, making it impossible to see who owned them, financial records show.
The Cypriot company hired to move sanctioned Belarusian potash through a Russian port has links to a former public official in Lukashenko’s government.
Cyprus is fourth among EU states when it comes to private donations per capita to political parties. And more than half of these private donations come from companies. […]
Last December, two former Afghan MPs – who are also Cypriot citizens – were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for “their extensive role in transnational corruption.” U.S. […]
