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A court in Russia has issued a prison sentence of 8 years and 2 months, along with a fine of 12 million rubles, against former Sergey Anokhin, who previously served as CEO of the bookmaker Fonbet, following his conviction in a case involving corruption, mediation of bribery, and large-scale organized fraud. The court also handed down sentences to several co-defendants involved in the same criminal proceedings, with penalties varying according to each individual’s level of par

A senior Russian law enforcement officer tasked with combating corruption has himself come under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes from operators of illegal casinos and gambling dens. According to Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti, the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ branch in the Omsk Oblast is probing one of its own officers, Dmitry Nagibin, who serves as a police colonel within the ministry’s Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department. The minis

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Brussels has launched a major investigation into alleged customs fraud, corruption, and document forgery linked to operations at the Port of Antwerp, one of Europe’s largest maritime hubs. The case, code-named “Steamboat,” centers on suspicions that a network operating within the port orchestrated a large-scale scheme that caused significant losses to the European Union’s financial interests. On 20 January 2026, acting und

A former high-level oil trader has been handed a fifteen-month prison term and ordered to pay a $300,000 fine after taking part in an almost eight-year criminal scheme involving bribery of Brazilian government officials and the laundering of corrupt funds to secure profitable business for the commodity firms that employed him. The trader, Glenn Oztemel—formerly with Arcadia Fuels Ltd. and later Freepoint Commodities LLC—participated in conduct that represents a profound breac