Middle East

A female Iranian singer and poet told OCCRP she is still living in fear even though she fled her country to avoid...

Along with dozens of their customers, two government-owned banks in Iraq have embezzled over 920 billion Iraqi dinars...

Acting on an international warrant issued by South Africa, police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested two brothers...

A U.S. court has authorized law enforcement to seize two planes belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich,...

Henri De Croÿ was accused of masterminding a scheme that hid hundreds of millions from tax authorities on behalf of rich...

Four members of the violent gang dubbed “the Sevens” wereconvicted Friday in a racketeering conspiracy wherein they...

A London court convicted two former directors of a green investment scheme, finding them guilty of cheating investors out of...

Authorities in Dubai said they arrested and plan to extradite a British financier who is accused of siphoning about US$1.7...

A U.S. court has asked Lebanon’s judiciary to serve legal papers against two top Lebanese politicians seeking to compel...

Being a member of a religious minority and someone who does not support Hezbollah, Firas Hamdan was an unlikely man to take...

The Taliban have forced all female TV presenters in Afghanistan to cover their faces while on air, as part of their radical...

Strapped for funds under the weight of U.S. sanctions, lawmakers in Iran are pondering a new bill which proposed treating...