Latin America

A Cross Border Investigation Reveals Links Between Churches and Organized Crime.

For years the ICDO, a decades-old international organization based in Switzerland, functioned essentially as a front for the...

A name scribbled on the wall of an old Colombian schoolhouse tells the tale of one Nepalese migrant’s long journey across...

On U.S. Independence Day last year, three young men from northern India set out for America. Two were sent back. One will...

A nine-month investigation by media partners across the world offers a rare insight into how these secret routes operate.

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

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

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...

The criminal group stole card numbers and copied them onto new blank cards, which were given to gang members to withdraw...

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.