Tanya Kozyreva

Nov 22, 2024 | icij.org | Sydney Freedberg |Agustin Armendariz |Tanya Kozyreva |Matei Rosca

Western oil giants had a cash bonanza in their sights when they gathered in the small town of Farnborough, southwest of London, in October 2012. They were rushing to exploit one of the world’s richest and deepest oil fields: the 156-square-mile Tengiz reservoir in western Kazakhstan, more than four times the size of Paris and a mile deep, under a desert on the remote north coast of the Caspian Sea. Time was slipping by on the oil executives’ exclusive 40-year rights to develop the field.

Nov 22, 2024 | icij.org | Sydney Freedberg |Agustin Armendariz |Tanya Kozyreva |Thomas Rowley

On a late August afternoon in 2021 the mooring master made a frantic call to a dispatcher at Russia’s largest port, Novorossiysk. “Stop! Stop! Stop loading tanker Minerva Symphony!” he shouted. But the damage had already been done. A floating platform used to load oil onto the Greek tanker had malfunctioned, unleashing a six-foot-high jet of oil into the Black Sea, three miles off the Russian coast.

Mar 13, 2024 | icij.org | Martin Laine |Matei Rosca |Tanya Kozyreva

A firm with multiple connections to sanctioned virtual currency exchange Garantex co-owns a debt-collection business with a convicted gang leader and has ties to Rosneft, the Kremlin-tied oil firm, a new probe shows.

Dec 11, 2023 | icij.org | Matei Rosca |Tanya Kozyreva

Leaked documents show Ukraine’s richest person was behind offshore moves to buy a luxury penthouse in London, raising questions over why he isn’t listed on the United Kingdom’s new register meant to expose oligarchs and others who own properties through shell companies.

Sep 7, 2023 | icij.org | Tanya Kozyreva

Powerful Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky faces allegations from two separate agencies of embezzlement from the country’s largest bank and channeling ill-gotten gains into investments, including in the United States. A Ukrainian court has ordered that Kolomoisky be held in pretrial detention for two months while authorities probe allegations of fraud and money laundering against him. The court in Kyiv set bail at 509 million hryvnias ($13.7 million).