Europe

A wave of kidnappings targeting French crypto investors is heightening security fears, with ransom demands appearing to be...

Network smuggled cocaine paste from Colombia to EU labs, echoing OCCRP warnings of Europe’s growing role in drug...

Giorgi Bachiashvili spent years advising Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia’s richest man and the founder of the ruling party. He...

A German court has sentenced two former Volkswagen executives to prison and handed suspended sentences to two others for...

Investigators allege EU funds were threatened by a complex VAT evasion scheme tied to Chinese-run firms in Italy.

Fake art, ancient loot, and digital smugglers: Europol-led operation uncovers global trade in stolen cultural treasures.

The European Parliament approved sharp tariff hikes on Russian and Belarusian agricultural goods, aiming to curb EU...

Andriy Portnov, a former adviser to Ukraine’s ousted pro-Russian president, was killed in broad daylight in a wealthy suburb...

As part of a broader overhaul of its deportation and migration policies, the EU is proposing to deport asylum seekers to...

Cross-border operation between Italy and Albania cripples powerful drug networks, capturing kingpins and seizing luxury...

Fatima Bio also falsely accused OCCRP of giving her a 24-hour deadline to respond to queries, when in fact she was asked to...

“Thumb phones” smuggled into French prisons—sometimes concealed inside visitors—are used to run criminal networks...