Ignoring Warning Signs, US Retirement Manager TIAA Bought Farms from Alleged Land Grabbers with Brazilian Sugar Giant
TIAA has always insisted that its joint ventures with Brazilian sugar company Cosan invest responsibly. But leaked documents...
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The Abdukadyr Family Made a Fortune in Collusion With Corrupt Central Asian Officials. Now They've Built a Global Business Empire.
Their trading monopoly, built on bribery and alleged smuggling, was exposed. But that hasn't stopped the secretive Khabibula...
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They Were Accused of Smuggling. Now They’re Partnering With the Uzbek State.
The Abdukadyr family earned hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to their alliance with corrupt officials in neighboring...
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The Lies That Kept A Central Asian Money Launderer's Cash Flowing
For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented...
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With Backing from Uzbek State, Family Implicated in Smuggling Secretly Funds The Transformation Of Tashkent’s Skyline
President Mirziyoyev promised reforms and transparency. But among the top foreign investors pouring money into his new...
Cyprus Firm Helped Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Move Funds
Cypriot corporate service provider MeritServus helped Konstantin Malofeev, an oligarch sanctioned for his support of...
The Case of the Missing $1.4 Billion: How Hugo Chávez’s Handshake Deals With Belarus Left Venezuela A Legacy of Wasted Public Funds
Leaked documents show how Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, struck...
Will the Real Sovereign Wealth Fund Please Stand Up? How Civil War Undermined the Hunt for Libyan Assets
Muammar Gaddafi used Libya’s financial institutions as conduits for graft and nepotism on a huge scale. Rather than bring...
Member of Serbian President’s Inner Circle Partnered With Alleged Drug Trafficker
Over a decade ago, Dejan Stanimirović was the business partner of Nikola Petrović, widely known in Serbia as the “best man”...
How Libya’s Gaddafi-Era Graft Saddled Sierra Leone With a Faulty Ferry
In 2006, Muammar Gaddafi set out to invest billions in oil money across the continent, but even a simple project to add a...
A Fake Bank Was Shut Down in Spain. Now a New One Has Popped Up in the U.K.
In 2017, Spanish authorities cracked down on over two dozen shell companies, masquerading as a bank in Madrid, that were...