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The Matraimov Kingdom
The FinCEN Files
Biometric Bribery
Group America
The Cruel Road North
Riviera Maya Gang
Blowing Unsmoke
Balkan Cocaine Wars
Slaves to Progress
Revolution to Riches
Crime, Corruption, and Coronavirus
Without a Trace
Fraud Factory
The State Capture Papers
A Journalist’s Undying Legacy
#29leaks
Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia
The Austrian Bank Job
Public Land, Private Hands
The Great Gambia Heist
The Troika Laundromat
Unfinished Lives, Unfinished Justice
Euros to the East
The Chávez Man and His Millions
Death On The Border
Paradise Leased: The Theft of the Maldives
The Panama Papers: The Aftermath
Dubai’s Golden Sands
Tajikistan: Money by Marriage
Birth and Death in Venezuela's Time of Hunger
The Daphne Project
Gold for Visas
A Murdered Journalist's Last Investigation
Theatre of War
War Dog Millionaire
The Faces of the Victims of Corruption
Paradise Papers
Putin and the Proxies
Gold and Chaos in Orinoco
The Azerbaijani Laundromat
Spooks and Spin: Information War in the Balkans
Agents of Influence
Laundromat
The Moldovan Banking Wars
Making a Killing
The Panama Papers
Investigative Dashboard Search
Internet Ownership Project
Mayor’s story
OCCRP Leaks
The Prodigal Daughter
Persona de Interés
The Two Bosses
Investigative Dashboard
The Russian Laundromat
Veggie Scam
Most Wanted List
Unholy Alliances
Jail Crunch
YanukovychLeaks
Georgia: Sex, Files and Videotape
The Battle for Mineral Resources
A Murderer's Trail
Magnitsky Stories
First Bank – First Family
Drug Cartel's Mystery Man
The Proxy Platform
Visual Investigative Scenarios
Big Trouble at Big Tobacco
Man in the middle
The Mišković Millions
Offshore Crime, Inc.
OCCRP People Of Interest
Security Chaos
Document Dilemma
Tobacco Underground
The Big Bet
Battered Justice
Seven years after a charismatic mobster was gunned down outside a Sarajevo apartment building, prosecutors think they know what happened that night and who was involved—a suspected drug trafficker and a former media mogul now running for president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fahrudin Radoncic and Naser Kelmendi say it is all lies, but a star witness will testify at Kelmendi’s upcoming trial that she heard them make the plan and saw them pay the money for the Serbian killers who took down Ramiz Delalic in 2007. The revelation is one of many in an indictment of Kelmendi handed up by prosecutors in Kosovo.
Call it the Laundromat. It’s a complex system for laundering more than $20 billion in Russian money stolen from the government by corrupt politicians or earned through organized crime activity. It was designed to not only move money from Russian shell companies into EU banks through Latvia, it had the added feature of getting corrupt or uncaring judges in Moldova to legitimize the funds. The state-of-the-art system provided exceptionally clean money backed by a court ruling at a fraction of the cost of regular laundering schemes. It made up for the low costs by laundering huge volumes. The system used just one bank in Latvia and one bank in Moldova but 19 banks in Russia, some of them controlled by rich and powerful figures including the cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
What Connects Terrorists In Iraq, Cleaning Ladies In Ukraine, And Dodgy Businessmen In Turkey? Vegetables And Tax Fraud. A Series Of Scams Helped Al Qaeda And Hurt Romanian Tax Officials To The Tune Of At Least € 50 Million.