Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Authorities in El Salvador said they arrested 10 people for helping former President Elias Antonio Saca launder US$ 22 million of public money.

Irish authorities took to court Tuesday one of two suspects detained for investment fraud and money laundering worth €5 million (US$ 5.32 million).

Swiss financial authorities have ordered Scottish bank Coutts & Co. Ltd to pay back 6.5 million Swiss francs (US$ 6.57 million) of illegal profits made from transactions involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the government-owned sovereign wealth fund embroiled in a corruption scandal.

Deutsche Bank said Monday it will pay US$ 625 million to US and UK financial authorities to settle charges that it helped Russian investors launder up to US$ 10 billion.

The former head of Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission and three other suspects pleaded not guilty to a NGN 2.8 billion (US$ 9.4 million) fraud charge, the country’s top anti-graft agency said Tuesday.

A former interior minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina charged in November with fraud vanished Tuesday after being released from pretrial detention earlier this month, local media reported.

A series of investigative reports by OCCRP has led to regulators in Ukraine and Latvia taking steps to rein in the use of Baltic banks to launder the proceeds of corruption.

Foreign leaders and officials who commit human rights abuses could have their assets in the United Kingdom seized under an amendment introduced to parliament by members of the country’s main parties.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s former wartime interior minister was among more than a dozen people detained over the weekend on allegations of being part of a group involved in crimes including real estate fraud and money laundering.

Oleksandr Tereshchenko

A number of high-ranking Ukrainian officials used a complex web of offshore companies and bank accounts to conduct property deals in multiple countries, according to a cache of leaked documents obtained by OCCRP.

Businessman Veaceslav Platon, 43, is considered by Moldovan law enforcement to be a mastermind of financial crime. They believe he is linked to money laundering and the theft of billions of dollars from banks, the state and businesses in the former Soviet bloc states including the Republic of Moldova.

In July 2016, Emmanuil Grinshpun sat next to Pavel Filip, the prime-minister of Moldova, during a government meeting with the American Jewish Committee

Romanian prosecutors charged former Prime Minister Victor Ponta with abuse of office and “complicity in money laundering” on Tuesday in case connected to a 2012 visit by former British prime minister Tony Blair to Bucharest.

An Armenian court freed a Russian citizen on Monday who had been detained on the request of the United States on accusations of money laundering and illegally transferring military technology.

The casual, obscenity-laden telephone transcript splashed in Bosnian media at the start of this month appeared to reveal a startling act: One of the country’s most powerful politicians being told that he was protected from major corruption investigations.

Italian authorities said Wednesday they seized €44 million (US$ 48.95 million) in assets from an alleged senior mafioso who was so obsessed with emulating Al Pacino's role in the classic 1983 gangster film “Scarface” that he had a replica of the throne from the movie built for his villa.

The following are excerpts from a three-hour interview with Veaceslav Platon, a key figure in a Moldovan investigation into banking corruption.

Banker Veaceslav Platon, a former parliamentarian detained in Kyiv on Monday for allegedly taking part in the theft of US$ 1 billion from three Moldovan banks and laundering billions through others, spent the months leading up to his arrest trying to take over yet another Moldovan bank, RISE Moldova has learned.

Banker Veaceslav Platon

Spanish police said Tuesday they arrested 11 Russian and Ukrainian citizens who laundered more than € 10 million (US$ 11.1 million) via local property purchases, media reported Tuesday.

A key suspect was arrested in what is suspected to be the largest and most complex post-war financial scam case in the country, estimated to be worth more than US$ 150 million.

The Spanish Civil Guard dealt a major blow to an organized money-laundering ring with connections to two Russian crime syndicates on Tuesday. The operation, two years in the making, was named “Usura” and was supported by Europol.