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How a Crew of Romanian Criminals Conquered the World of ATM Skimming

They weren’t the people you’d peg for success in the world of finance and technology: a group of young men from a small city...

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Dethroned Azerbaijani Elites Made Big Investments in Europe

The family of Azerbaijan’s former security chief has built up a business and property empire in Europe worth over 100 million euros
31 May 2020
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Nigeria Traces $9.6 Billion Financial Hit Back to $390,000 in Alleged Bribes

A British Virgin Islands-based firm allegedly paid more than US$390,000 in bribes to land a natural gas processing plant construction contract in 2009, Nigeria’s attorney general said ...
29 May 2020
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Blowing Unsmoke

An art object. A fashion accessory. A medical treatment. A scientifically advanced gadget. And even, recently, a solution to COVID-19-induced lockdown boredom.
26 May 2020
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What Lockdown? World’s Cocaine Traffickers Sniff at Movement Restrictions

Drugs keep flowing despite the global pandemic.
20 May 2020
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Fraud Factory Firms Traced to Penniless Proxies

Companies used to hawk get-rich-quick investment schemes from a Kyiv call center were registered in the Caribbean and Estonia in the names of impoverished impoverished Swedes.
18 May 2020
Mattias Carlsson (DN), Holger Roonemaa (OCCRP), Oliver Kund (Eesti Päevaleht), Hannes Munzinger (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Out-of-Favor Saudi Prince Bought Cypriot Passport

Prince Saud bin Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud applied for a passport shortly after his uncle, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, ousted him as emir of Ha’il province ...
13 May 2020
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Statement on Allegations by the Kyrgyz Security Service

The GKNB presents its findings in front of a special committee in the Kyrgyz parliament. Photo by: Screen capture, Kyrgyz parliament YouTube channelThe GKNB presents its findings in front of a special committee in the Kyrgyz parliament. Photo by: Screen capture, Kyrgyz parliament YouTube channel.

Earlier today, in front of a special committee of the Kyrgyz parliament, the country’s intelligence agency presented the preliminary results of an investigation that was triggered by a reporting project released in November by RFE/RL’s Radio Azattyk, OCCRP, and its local member center, Kloop.

Read more: Statement on Allegations by the Kyrgyz Security Service

Oak and Omerta in Romania: Saving the Lungs of Europe

The teeth on an average full-skip chain stand at three-quarter inch intervals and are about the length of a thumbnail. Moving these blades along at a speed of almost 88 feet per second, a gas-powered chainsaw turns even the hardest and oldest of trees to butter.

Of the 38 million cubic meters of forest lost to Romania’s logging industry each year, only 18 million are licensed and accounted for.Of the 38 million cubic meters of forest lost to Romania’s logging industry each year, only 18 million are licensed and accounted for. By the Associated Press. By The Associated Press

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