A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.
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A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.
When Lithuania’s AB Bankas Snoras imploded in 2011, its main shareholders, Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, had already left for the United Kingdom, where Antonov had accomplished a long-held dream to take over the Portsmouth Football Club.
Top judge says public officials fired by Parliament have no right to appeal to the courts.
A police officer guards High Court in Podgorica, Montenegro, July 19, 2017.(REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic)
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Even as Atlas Bank was under interim management by the Central Bank, well-connected account holders managed to recover their millions. Ordinary citizens lost their savings.
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Leaked emails show how Trump’s former campaign manager plotted with two current Ukrainian legislators to snap up Ukraine’s public telephone operator.
Serhiy Lovochkin, a Ukrainian MP and a leader of its largest opposition party, secretly funded the American lobbyist’s efforts to convince European leaders to sign an important agreement with Ukraine despite rule of law concerns.
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Years ago, in rural Ukraine, a farmer’s tractor disappeared in the night. Months later, another tractor disappeared from another farm in almost exactly the same way.
Between 2000 and 2008, authorities in Kyrgyzstan divided up a large swath of Ataturk Park, a beloved green space in the country’s capital, Bishkek, and handed it out to 173 people — many of them wealthy and well-connected.
Investors pulled billions of rand out of public companies under the guise of a government program meant to address the inequities of apartheid. Then they turned on each other.
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A newly revealed photo shows a Kosovar businessman and politician meeting with an alleged organized crime figure. Shortly afterwards, he unexpectedly joined Kosovo’s largest Serbian party in a governing coalition — earning him the post of foreign minister.
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