DIY: The New Amphetamine Trade

By Mujtaba Ali

Last summer, when UK police raided an industrial building in the picturesque market town of Newton-le-Willows, about 20 ...

New Husband of Putin's Ex-Wife Buys Posh Villa in South of

When Lyudmila Putin, 59, divorced Russian President Vladimir Putin and married the director of a Russian non-profit organization, she might ...

OCCRP Concerned by Serbian Government’s Selective Inquiry into Investigative Journalism Outlets

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is concerned by what appears to be a selective inquiry by Serbian ...

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Corruption and Poverty Made West Africa Hot Spot for Piracy

It was 7:40 a.m. when the chief officer of the MV Duke called Captain Ripusad Prasad in his quarters to say ...

Argentina Confronts its Multi-Billion Dollar Offshore Wealth Problem

As Argentina has been renegotiating its US$65 billion debt with foreign creditors, it is also grappling with the fact that up to six ...

Cash-Strapped Jordan Targets Premium Tax Evaders

Jordan’s recent crackdown against corruption and tax evasion has left the country’s previously untouchable business and political elite flabbergasted by the sudden raids ...

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The Players and the Paperwork: Romania’s Trade in Black...

Undercover reporters from OCCRP and RISE Romania found a trade run by dealers with ties ...

The Spoils of Russia’s Trash Reforms Go to the...

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Fraud Factory Firms Traced to Penniless Proxies

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The FinCEN Files

In a series of articles presented this week, the FinCEN Files crack open the usually secretive world of international bank regulation to show how the system works, and how it fails.

Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Oligarchs, Crooks, and a Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Deal

Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the relationship was built by a circle that included Trump’s favorite lobbyist, a key character in the Ukraine impeachment scandal, a Kremlin-linked oligarch, and a shipping tycoon charged with terrorism.

In Bed With a Dictator’s Daughter — Again

Even as Swedish telecom TeliaSonera emphatically denied bribing Gulnara Karimova, the company was busy negotiating another secret multi-million-dollar payment to the daughter of the late Uzbek president.

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Biometric Bribery: Inside Semlex’s Global Playbook

Semlex is an unassuming Brussels-based company that supplies biometric documents such as passports and driving licenses to governments and international bodies.

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Powerful Slovak Businessman Cleared of Murdering Journalist

Marian Kočner, who was accused of masterminding the killing of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, is cleared of murder.

GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows

A low-profile US-Serbian gang has trafficked cocaine to Europe for decades. Some credit its longevity to friends in the shadows.

Holy Rollers: The Religious Leaders Using Churches to Launder Illicit Cash Across the Americas

When Erik Súñiga died in U.S. custody in April, he left a rich religious and political legacy in the Guatemalan town where he founded an evangelical church, and served as mayor for over a decade.

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The Quiet Man in Stockholm Who Laundered China’s Oil Money for Iran

By all outward appearances, Hatam Khatoun Nema was a small-time money changer working from a nondescript office in Järfälla, a workaday Stockholm suburb.

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A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections Surround Beirut Explosion Shipment

Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port on August 4, Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets in shock, outrage, and grief.

How Alexei Navalny Exposed Russian Corruption

Russia’s best-known dissident — now fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital after an apparent poisoning — is usually described as an “opposition politician.” But Navalny’s most enduring legacy may be his investigations into the corruption at the heart of the Putin regime.

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