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How the New Mafia Really Works: OCCRP Journalists Discuss Organized Crime

OCCRP Publisher Drew Sullivan will speak with veteran crime reporter Stevan Dojčinović about his experience investigating organized crime groups in ...

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 ...

OCCRP Condemns Proposed “Foreign Agent” Bill in Georgia

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply concerned that if this bill is enacted, it could be ...

Features

Who Is Riad Salame? Lebanon’s Central Bank Chief Accused of Embezzlement

Prosecutors in Lebanon and Europe are investigating the longtime Banque du Liban governor, Riad Salame, for suspected money laundering and ...

‘They Tried to Frame Us’: New Assault on Hungarian Journalists Highlights Media Freedom Crisis in the Heart of Europe

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not ...

How a Montenegrin Gang Used Open-Source Intelligence to Kill

Hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques, poring over apartment listing sites, ...

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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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Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign

A leaked report sheds light on the source of a mysterious media attack on the Serbian president’s political rival.

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How the New Mafia Really Works: OCCRP Journalists Discuss Organized Crime

OCCRP Publisher Drew Sullivan will speak with veteran crime reporter Stevan Dojčinović about his experience investigating organized crime groups in a live OCCRP Discussion on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 16:00 CET/10:00 EDT.

How the Mafia Really Works Webinar

Who Is Riad Salame? Lebanon’s Central Bank Chief Accused of Embezzlement

Prosecutors in Lebanon and Europe are investigating the longtime Banque du Liban governor, Riad Salame, for suspected money laundering and corruption. He’s also been blamed for the country’s financial crisis. But Salame claims he is a scapegoat.

(Photo: James O’Brien/OCCRP)

‘They Tried to Frame Us’: New Assault on Hungarian Journalists Highlights Media Freedom Crisis in the Heart of Europe

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression, but through market distortion and regulatory capture. Can anything be done?

A man adjusts Hungarian flags before a pro-Orban protest in Budapest, in March 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo)

How a Montenegrin Gang Used Open-Source Intelligence to Kill

Hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques, poring over apartment listing sites, satellite images, and tourist photos posted online, to track down and kill the leader of a rival clan as he hid out in Greece.

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OCCRP Condemns Proposed “Foreign Agent” Bill in Georgia

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply concerned that if this bill is enacted, it could be used to crack down on independent media and civil society.

Protests on March 7 outside Parliament in Tbilisi while lawmakers discuss the proposed foreign agent bill. The signs say, “No Russian influence in Georgia!” and “Georgia will not become Russia!” (Photo: OCCRP)

Murdered Papua New Guinea Ports Official Benefitted From Suspect Offshore Payments

A Manila-based multinational paid millions of dollars into the offshore account of an Australian consultant around the time it won lucrative contracts to operate Papua New Guinea’s biggest ports. Senior PNG Ports officials — including one who was recently killed — then received money and apparent benefits.

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OCCRP Appoints Miranda Patrucic as New Editor in Chief

Award-winning Investigative Journalist Will Lead Editorial Operations of Global Newsroom.

Editor Anna Babinets, Investigative Reporter Elena Loginova, and Editor Miranda Patrucic discuss financial reports and offshores.
(Photo: Gabriel Diamond)

One Year on From Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, How is the U.K.’s Fight Against Kleptocratic Wealth Faring?

OCCRP joined the Londongrad Kleptocracy Tour, organized by campaigners trying to get dirty money out of the U.K.’s capital, to ask what measures are still needed to fight kleptocracy and corruption.

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‘We Go to the Cemetery Every Day. It Cannot be Forgotten.’

An exclusive interview with the parents of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and with the mother of his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová. Both were murdered five years ago.

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Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign

U.S. Sanctions Procurement Networks for Iran’s UAV Program

French Journalist Released after 2 Years in Jihadists’ Captivity

Vietnam Customs Detect One of the Largest Ivory Shipments Ever

How the New Mafia Really Works: OCCRP Journalists Discuss Organized Crime

How the New Mafia Really Works: OCCRP Journalists Discuss Organized Crime

Who Is Riad Salame? Lebanon’s Central Bank Chief Accused of Embezzlement

‘They Tried to Frame Us’: New Assault on Hungarian Journalists Highlights Media Freedom Crisis in the Heart of Europe

How a Montenegrin Gang Used Open-Source Intelligence to Kill

OCCRP Condemns Proposed “Foreign Agent” Bill in Georgia

Murdered Papua New Guinea Ports Official Benefitted From Suspect Offshore Payments

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