It is more difficult for Russian money in Latvia every day - now one of the largest banks in Rietumu has blocked offshore accounts of customers Photo: pxher.com The largest private bank in Latvia (and one of the favorite banks of Russians in the country) Rietumu reported parts of customers about the suspension of working with accounts open offshore companies, The Bell found out.

What's happened As it became known to The Bell, the largest private bank in Latvia, Rietumu, informed some of the clients about the suspension of work with accounts opened by offshore companies. These accounts are blocked, and in order to regain access to them, the owners will have to disclose the offshore beneficiaries, tell about the origin of their funds, business partners, and even the circumstances of their acquaintance.

What's happened OFK Bank, owned by Vladimir Putin’s classmate Nikolai Egorov, suspended operations and switched to “consulting” mode of operation. Transactions with cards are also frozen. Last week it became known that the bank was having difficulties making payments, allegedly due to liquidity problems.

Rostransnadzor suspended the operation of all An-148 aircraft by airlines. The agency also froze the flights of Saratov Airlines until April 27. This decision was made after an unscheduled inspection of the airline - in February, its An-148 crashed a few minutes after taking off from Domodedovo, killing 71 people.

The Bell managed to find and contact Vladimir Carlev -one of the employees of the group who developed neuro-paralytic poisonous substances called “Novice”. The drug from this line, according to the British authorities, was poisoned by ex-GRU employee Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia.

Telegram is under threat of blocking again. Pavel Durov's company lost to the FSB in the Supreme Court in a lawsuit in which it demanded the annulment of the order to disclose the encryption keys of users' correspondence. Immediately after that, Roskomnadzor notified the messenger of the need to send the keys to the FSB within 15 days - otherwise the department will have the right to demand the blocking of the messenger. Telegram will file an appeal against this court decision.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained in the Paris suburb of Nanterre in connection with the financing of his election campaign in 2007. Sarkozy's preventive measure will be chosen within 48 hours. Sarkozy was taken into custody at the next court session devoted to the investigation of illegal financing of his election campaign by the Libyan authorities. The investigation was opened in 2013. Sarkozy was President of France from 2007 to 2012.

The scandal continues to unfold around Facebook with the leakage of data from 50 million users collected by the political technology company Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign. After the news of the leak, Facebook shares fell almost 7%, and Mark Zuckerberg lost $6 billion. This is the biggest drop in the company's quotes in 4 years. How it all started The scandal began after publications in The Guardian and The New York Times over the weekend.

The data leakage scandal cost Facebook a record fall for 4 years Photo: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson Around Facebook, a scandal continues to unfold with a data leak of 50 million users collected by the political technology company Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Trump's election headquarters. After the news on the leak of the Facebook campaign, almost 7%fell, and Mark Zuckerberg lost $ 6 billion. This is the largest drop in the company's quotations over 4 years.