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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 ...

Cyprus Records Shed Light on Libya's Hidden Millions

Newly leaked records from Cyprus show how a Gaddafi-era procurement official who stole millions from his country's government used offshore ...

OCCRP Live Event: Journalists Reveal How They Tracked the Offshore Wealth

Rumors of Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salame’s offshore wealth have swirled around Beirut for years. In 2020, OCCRP and ...

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How Syria’s Embassies in Europe Help Fund the War Back Home

Large fees to avoid military conscription have helped turn Syria’s diaspora into a major source of revenue for the cash-strapped ...

Why Russian Journalists Are Being Branded ‘Foreign Agents’ — And Why It Matters

The last few months have been the most difficult for independent Russian journalists since the Soviet era. Here’s how the ...

Canadian Giant Brookfield’s Brazilian Projects Investigated for Environmental Violations

Authorities have opened multiple probes, including into Brookfield’s alleged part in floods that deluged the eastern city of Raul Soares.

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iStories: Top Russian FSB Official Has Multiple Underworld Ties

Sergei Korolev, who was appointed to a key FSB position earlier this year by President ...

Asset Declarations of Kyrgyz Officials Increasingly Useless as Anti-Corruption...

Kyrgyzstan is the only Central Asian country that publishes its officials’ asset declarations. But the ...

Slovak Businessman Accused of Masterminding Ján Kuciak's Murder Had...

Thousands of Marian Kočner’s text messages, backed by court testimony, provide a remarkable inside look ...

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Secret Offshore Loans Funded Private Croatian Island Resort

In 2009, a man known as “Putin’s masseur” bought a luxury villa on a Croatian island. The Pandora Papers show that behind the scenes a former Russian energy minister was playing a key role.

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State Petrochemical Plants in Turkmenistan Channel Exports Through Obscure U.K. Companies — With Ties to President’s Nephews

One has no website. Another can’t be reached by phone. But these foreign companies are selling the output of some of Turkmenistan’s major fertilizer and petroleum facilities. And offshore documents reveal their secret ties to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s nephews.

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Documents Expose Bucharest Official’s Offshore Networks and Suggest He Embezzled Public Funds

Leaked corporate data and prosecution files obtained by OCCRP shed light on the business schemes of influential Romanian politician Robert Negoiță.

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How a Zimbabwe Tycoon Made a Fortune from a Trafigura Partnership and Spiralling National Debt

Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who is close to Zimbabwe’s president and his inner circle, leveraged his privileged access to fuel and mining markets to strike a lucrative partnership with commodities giant Trafigura. Sanctioned by the U.S. and U.K. for corruption, Tagwirei continued to do business by relocating his network to Mauritius.

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A Family Affair: How the Relatives of a Russian State Company’s CEO Got Rich

The stepdaughter of Sergei Chemezov, the head of the giant state-owned military and defense conglomerate Rostec, is the beneficiary of a group of offshore companies with assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a superyacht, and businesses in European countries.

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Belarusian Elites’ Golden Deal With Zimbabwe

A top Belarusian official negotiated a gold mining venture with Zimbabwe in 2018 — but behind a veil of offshores, it was his own son who stood to benefit.

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Fugitive Russian Banker Used Cypriot Law Firm to Hide Assets, Move Money

Georgy Bedzhamov, wanted in Russia over a high-profile embezzlement case, used the law firm Demetrios A. Demetriades LLC, known as Dadlaw, to conceal his assets and disguise transfers. Company records and contracts also show how he moved tens of millions of dollars around the world around the same time his sister embezzled billions of dollars from their bank, Vneshprombank.

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Family of Top Azerbaijani Politician Owns Millions in Luxury Real Estate

As head of Azerbaijan’s parliament for 14 years, Oktay Asadov received a modest official salary. So how did his wife, daughters, and former son-in-law afford luxury apartments in London, Moscow, and Dubai?

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Putin Propagandist Got Major Stake in $1 Billion Project to Redevelop Soviet Movie Theaters

Konstantin Ernst, a top executive at Russia’s Channel One, got a loan from a state-connected bank to acquire a stake in a project that saw beloved Moscow theaters demolished to make way for shopping malls.

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A Tale of Two Brothers and A Croatian Island

For years, Croatians have been in the dark about who owns a major company called Jadranka, the leading tourism developer on the Adriatic island of Lošinj. New documents reveal it to be controlled by the family of Mihajlo Perenčević, president of the Russian pipeline constructor Velesstroy.

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Secret Offshore Loans Funded Private Croatian Island Resort

Police Seize Record 5.2 Tonnes of Cocaine Off Portuguese Coast

Amnesty International Urges Cambodia to Stop Harassing Activists

Saudi Arabia Arrests 21, Mainly Public Officials, for Corruption

OCCRP Live Event: Journalists Reveal How They Tracked the Offshore Wealth of Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salame

State Petrochemical Plants in Turkmenistan Channel Exports Through Obscure U.K. Companies — With Ties to President’s Nephews

Documents Expose Bucharest Official’s Offshore Networks and Suggest He Embezzled Public Funds

How a Zimbabwe Tycoon Made a Fortune from a Trafigura Partnership and Spiralling National Debt

A Family Affair: How the Relatives of a Russian State Company’s CEO Got Rich

Belarusian Elites’ Golden Deal With Zimbabwe

Fugitive Russian Banker Used Cypriot Law Firm to Hide Assets, Move Money

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