Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Crypto, SLAPPs, and Dark Money: OCCRP’s Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu

OCCRP Co-Founders Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu will talk about trends in the world of illicit money flows in a ...

OCCRP and Partners Announce “Reporters Shield”

Legal protection for investigative reporting will help defend media outlets against vexatious lawsuits.

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 ...

Features

Duplicity and Destitution: How Sierra Leone’s Artisanal Diamonds Fail to Benefit Local Communities

Every day, forty-six year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond pits ...

Unwitting Wealth: How a Local Official Scooped up a Georgian Village

The head of the village appears to have abused a new land-titling system intended to help illiterate farmers, using it ...

Opinion: Assigning the Real Blame in a Lebanese Tragedy

Last Friday, tens of thousands of Lebanese viewers watched in horror as a businessman collapsed live on air during a ...

From Our Member Centers

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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Syria’s Newest Mobile Operator Has A Hidden Link to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Syria’s licensing of a third mobile operator, Wafa Telecom, looked like another effort by authorities to seize control of the lucrative telecoms sector. But the Assad government may also be using the license to compensate its ally Iran.

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Operation Dó-Ré-Mi: The Brazilian Bow Makers Under Investigation For Dealing in Endangered Wood

Prosecutors, police, and government officials are investigating dozens of the country’s top makers of high-end musical bows, who are suspected of trafficking protected brazilwood to the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

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OCCRP and Partners Announce “Reporters Shield”

Legal protection for investigative reporting will help defend media outlets against vexatious lawsuits.

Mexican Prosecutor Who Led Investigations Into Violent Crimes of Romanian Gang is Accused of Being on Their Payroll

A former member of the Riviera Maya gang was stabbed in Mexico by his onetime comrades. The Mexican prosecutor who led the investigation didn’t even look into them as suspects. Now, it turns out, they may have been paying him off.

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Dear European Court of Justice: You Were Played

The European Court of Justice has reversed a decade of progress against financial secrecy, to the cheers of sanctioned oligarchs and tax dodgers all around the world.

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Fake ‘Rothschild’ Was Chased by Russian Organized Crime When She Took Pictures With Trump at Mar-a-Lago

While Inna Yashchyshyn visited Mar-a-Lago and schmoozed with former President Trump and his inner circle, she was being pursued by a senior member of Russian organized crime.

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Crypto, SLAPPs, and Dark Money: OCCRP’s Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu Discuss the Year Ahead in Global Crime and Corruption

OCCRP Co-Founders Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu will talk about trends in the world of illicit money flows in a webinar on December 14.

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Beneficial Ownership Data is Critical in the Fight Against Corruption

In the aftermath of a “disastrous” European court ruling, we explain why journalists — and the public — need access to corporate ownership registries.

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Eastern Europe’s Biggest Wood Processor Demanded Free Timber From Suppliers For Years

For more than a decade, HS Timber Group required its Romanian timber suppliers to deliver extra wood for free without recording it, netting the Austrian company an estimated $34 million of unofficial timber.

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FAQ: What is Correspondent Banking?

Banks often help each other carry out cross-border transactions using a system known as correspondent banking. The process is central to the global financial system, but it also opens up loopholes exploited by criminals, sanctions dodgers, and corrupt politicians.

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Syria’s Newest Mobile Operator Has A Hidden Link to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Peruvian President Removed from Office, Arrested After Self-Coup

UNESCO: Journalists Increasingly Silenced by Abusive Lawsuits

Saakashvili a No-Show at Alleged Poisoning Hearing

OCCRP and Partners Announce “Reporters Shield”

Operation Dó-Ré-Mi: The Brazilian Bow Makers Under Investigation For Dealing in Endangered Wood

OCCRP and Partners Announce “Reporters Shield”

Mexican Prosecutor Who Led Investigations Into Violent Crimes of Romanian Gang is Accused of Being on Their Payroll

Dear European Court of Justice: You Were Played

Fake ‘Rothschild’ Was Chased by Russian Organized Crime When She Took Pictures With Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Crypto, SLAPPs, and Dark Money: OCCRP’s Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu Discuss the Year Ahead in Global Crime and Corruption

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