OCCRP spoke with the head of the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office about the challenges in fighting the widespread  — but often-ignored — criminal scheme.

 A carousel fraudster is led away by authorities after a recent bust in Hungary. (Credit: Europol)

Controversial deals that offered quick cash in exchange for future oil production are eating up government budgets.

South Sudan's former Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, visits the Al-Nar oil fields north of Bentiu, South Sudan, in April 2019. (Credit: Jok Solomun/Reuters)

Three years ago today, Corinne Vella received a call that would forever change her family, her life, and even her homeland, the small Mediterranean island of Malta.

Companies spun off from Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm continue to offer similar services with little oversight.

A 2018 protest in London over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. (Credit: Jwslubbock/CC-by-SA 4.0)

It was 7:40 a.m. when the chief officer of the MV Duke called Captain Ripusad Prasad in his quarters to say that a boat was following them.

An undated photo of West African pirates. (Credit: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)