Crime, Corruption, and Coronavirus

The masks, imported over a decade ago, are listed as counterfeit by U.S. regulators

Major international distributors are selling masks and other COVID-19 protective equipment across Europe made by Chinese...

How a self-professed business guru charged $16 million to supply mobile hospitals for COVID-19 patients, then delivered...

Substandard protective equipment for COVID-19 is being sold in over a dozen countries, using misleading certificates...

Undercover reporters from OCCRP and RISE Romania found a trade run by dealers with ties to organized crime, enabled by shady...

Drugs keep flowing despite the global pandemic.

For several days in late March, North Macedonian citizen Rodzer Zekirovski had all the symptoms of COVID-19: a high fever,...

A Romanian national healthcare supplier bought a million masks of questionable quality from a convicted organized crime...

A Slovenian businessman with investments in gambling — and no background in healthcare — managed in just one day to secure a...

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across virtually every area of the economy, and organized crime is no exception. OCCRP spoke with...

Kyrgyzstan has collected hundreds of millions of dollars to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But how that money is being...

Editor Lina Attala lost her breath when she saw the article. It appeared on a pro-government website and claimed that her...

Japan’s government has been criticized for its slow and inadequate response to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Japanese...

In a crisis, there’s no time for bureaucracy. But the special expedited procedures now being used by European governments to...

Spain’s National Police Tuesday dismantled a division of a transnational crime group that sells fake Covid-19 passports...

Italian authorities uncovered on Monday a conspiracy involving about 50 people who allegedly tried to obtain a COVID-19...

The cost of fraudulent COVID-19 relief claims in the United States have surpassed US$100 billion, according to a statement...

Cultural property crimes, such as the theft and illegal exportation of paintings, ancient coins or other objects linked to a...

Italian financial police have seized more than 11 million euro (US$12.89 million) and more than 3.5 million protective face...

Four people suspected of “abuse of official position or authority” in multi-million-dollar purchases of COVID-19-related...

Interpol circulated a global alert on Monday, warning the general public of organized crime groups that seek to profit off...

Police in Ireland, the Netherlands and Romania detained 10 and charged 23 people in a joint operation targeting an online...

At the time the United States and European countries had banned or limited export of vaccines against the coronavirus to...

Across the globe, law enforcement agencies have been struggling to combat ransomware, a unique form of cybercrime that has...

The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world has made people poorer and more vulnerable to human trafficking, according to the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a new gold rush in Central Africa, with organized groups cashing in on the surge in the...

Just as the legitimate business world has moved its activities online amidst the global coronavirus pandemic, so have...

Transparency International warned on Tuesday that the lack of transparency in COVID-19 vaccine trials and the secrecy over...

Civil society organizations in the Philippines accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration of using COVID-19 to...

The easing of COVID restrictions may have contributed to the recent rise in smuggling incidents in the Indian Ocean which...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) urged the public not to buy vaccines on the Internet after it received reports...

In over two-thirds of the world, the media is “constrained,” “seriously impeded” or “totally blocked,” and since the...

Honduran authorities last weekarrestedMarco Bográn, the former head of an institution that purchased old and useless mobile...