Spain & Colombia Dismantle Cocaine Processing Lab, 28 Arrested
A joint Spanish and Colombian operation has dismantled a cocaine processing lab, resulting in dozens of arrests...
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Bulgaria Dismantles Migrant Smuggling Ring
Bulgarian authorities dismantled this week a criminal group that smuggled migrants through the Balkans and into...
Spate of Killings in Europe Reveal Escalating Conflict in Turkish Criminal Underworld
An escalation in violence involving major Turkish gangs has spilled over into European cities, where suspected...
NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order
The Highway to Europe - Inside A Global Drug Collaboration
Think of the drug trade, and you might think of rigid hierarchies run by drug lords like Pablo Escobar or Joaquín...
Hugo Chávez’s Nurse Stashed Gold Bars in a Secret Vault in Europe, Investigators Allege. Here’s Who They Say Helped Her.
The Venezuelan strongman’s former nurse, Claudia Díaz, became head of the country’s treasury. She’s now serving a...
Ukrainian Grain Exported Through Tax-Avoiding ‘Shell Firms,’ Robbing Country of Wartime Revenue
Reporters looked into who imported millions of euros of Ukrainian “black grain” into the European Union. They...
How Biofuels Scams Have Undermined A Flagship EU Climate Policy
Multiple scams involving fake biofuels have erupted in northern Europe in recent years. A new investigation shows...
Companies Behind Malta Hospital Controversy Spent Millions on Luxuries, Payments to Director
In February a Maltese court annulled a 2.1-billion-euro public healthcare contract over suspicion of fraud....
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...
Beneficial Ownership Data is Critical in the Fight Against Corruption
This Luxembourg Businessman Got Europe's Corporate Registries Shut Down. But Whose Privacy Was He Protecting?
Why did a man who runs a private aircraft company become a central figure in rolling back corporate transparency...
Kremlin-Linked Group Arranged Payments to European Politicians to Support Russia’s Annexation of Crimea
For years, a secret organization run from inside Russia’s parliament successfully interfered with European...
Traders Are Sneaking Banned Russian and Belarusian Wood Into the EU By Pretending It’s From Central Asia
Not long after imposing sanctions on wood imports from Russia and Belarus, Europe saw an influx of wood supposedly...