POLITICS Alexei Remizov 30 September 2024 The Insider previously detailed how Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), using shell companies, has been directing the flow of refugees from Arab countries into Europe with the aim of creating a migration crisis. Now it appears that the same system is being repurposed to recruit migrants from the Middle East and North Africa for frontline combat in Ukraine.

Akhmat fighters kidnapped a civilian in the Belgorod region because they thought he was filming their location, Astra reports , citing sources. According to the channel, the man was detained near the bridge over the Oskol River in the Valuysky district. He was forcibly put into the car, but he jumped out and broke his head. He is now in the hospital; the military did not arrest him.

The Israel Defense Forces declared the territory of three settlements in the north of the country, near the border with Lebanon, a closed military zone. According to The Times of Israel, we are talking about the city of Metula, as well as kibbutzim Kfar Giladi and Misgav Am.

The trial of Marine Le Pen in a money laundering case has begun in Paris: she, along with other politicians, is accused of embezzling public funds and sponsoring the National Front from European Parliament funds by hiring assistants. If she is found guilty, she will not be able to run for president in 2027. The case is being heard by the Paris Criminal Court.

During the autumn conscription campaign, it will be possible to appeal the decision of the conscription commission in a pre-trial manner, including through State Services. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Deputy Chief of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky. The new recruitment campaign will begin on October 1 and end on December 31.

Judging by the reports made by Sergey Merzlyakov, Khalid Elameri, and their affiliated companies, the business appears to be thriving, and it maintains close ties with Russian state and semi-state entities.

The vice-president of the Russian-Finnish company Helsinki Shipyard Oy, which builds icebreakers, Valery Timofeev was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security colony on charges of treason. The verdict was handed down back in May by the Moscow City Court. As Mediazona writes , it was only now possible to find out the term to which Timofeev was sentenced - after the defense unsuccessfully appealed the verdict in the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction.

After Raiffeisenbank stopped making foreign currency transfers for most clients, legal entities began to en masse transfer to the Russian subsidiary bank of the Hungarian OTP group OTP Bank. Vedomosti reported this with reference to the bank's importer clients. As a result, OTP Bank began to return part of the payments to the EU in euros: they were rejected by the head bank, which acts as a correspondent for the Russian subsidiary for payments in European currency.

Former lawyer Anatoly Blinov, who was arrested in Poland and worked for Leonid Nevzlin, traveled around Europe using a fake Latvian passport, journalists from the LTV De Facto program found out .

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined the Discord service 3.5 million rubles for violating the law on self-control (Part 2 of Article 13.50 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). The press service does not specify what exactly the messenger was accused of. The same court fined Google the same amount under Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

The Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the former co-owners of the bankrupt Yulmart chain, Dmitry Kostygin and August Meyer, guilty of the loss of more than 3 billion rubles issued in the form of loans from Sberbank and VTB for business development. They were sentenced to four and three years in prison, respectively.

Leonid Nevzlin ordered articles with compromising content in the Latvian press regarding Russian oligarchs Vladimir Gusinsky and Pyotr Aven, according to journalists from the De Facto program, who studied the leaked correspondence of the former co-founder of YUKOS with lawyer Anatoly Blinov. The materials were posted on the portals jauns.lv and kompromat.lv. The authors of the publications, in turn, accused FBK of lobbying the interests of Alfa Group.

RU Exiled Russian-born Israeli billionaire Leonid Nevzlin used several Latvian publications to target Russian oligarchs Vladimir Gusinsky and Petr Aven, according to a report by Latvian Television’s investigative De Facto program. The program’s journalists reviewed leaked messages between Nevzlin, the former co-founder of Russian oil giant Yukos, and his lawyer, Anatoly Blinov.

The news The Insider September 30, 2024 In today's report: The Russian flag is hoisted on the western outskirts of Ugledar - the assault on the city goes simultaneously from three sides The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation made an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the aggregate factory in Volchansk at the Batcom of the MT-LB land Under Plekhovo in the Kursk region, a Russian column was broken, which was supposed to cut off the Ukrainian military from supply In the Belgorod region, scammers

The manufacturer of Chinese premium electric vehicles Zeekr will disable the software of those that were supplied to Russia for the local Chinese market, The Moscow Times wrote , citing sources. It was reported that the supply market for such electric vehicles accounted for 1/3 of all, and car dealers said that it would be possible to restore the software only by sending the car back to China.