How a Crew of Romanian Criminals Conquered the World of ATM Skimming

Constantin Sorinel Marcu was in a tough spot. He had stabbed a man in the neck after a fight at a swimming pool, and he...

A Romanian-led organized crime group scammed an estimated $1.2 billion using a network of rigged ATMs in some of Mexico’s...

A Romanian gang rigged ATMs to skim $1 billion, and funneled the cash into real estate in at least four countries.

Starting in the early 2000s, a Romanian man built an international people-smuggling network that laid the groundwork for a...

How the Riviera Maya gang used media campaigns and ties to people in power to protect themselves.

Most investigations of transnational criminal networks follow a known group or commodity such as the Italian Camorra,...

OCCRP's co-founder Paul Radu answered readers' questions on an investigation into a Romanian criminal syndicate that we’ve...

As the seemingly endless legal case of one alleged key lieutenant drags on, we investigate the gang’s operations and...

A former member of the Riviera Maya gang was stabbed in Mexico by his onetime comrades. The Mexican prosecutor who led the...