Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

DIY: The New Amphetamine Trade

By Mujtaba Ali

Last summer, when UK police raided an industrial building in the picturesque market town of Newton-le-Willows, about 20 ...

New Tool Helps Journalists in Arab World Follow the Money

ARIJ Aleph Archive makes millions of records available in Arabic.

New Husband of Putin's Ex-Wife Buys Posh Villa in South of

When Lyudmila Putin, 59, divorced Russian President Vladimir Putin and married the director of a Russian non-profit organization, she might ...

Features

The Price of Blowing the Whistle

OCCRP spoke to three people who have alerted the public to wrongdoing by the rich and powerful. They described an ...

New EU Prosecutor’s Office Takes Aim at 50-Billion-Euro-a-Year ‘Carousel Fraud’ Schemes

OCCRP spoke with the head of the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office about the challenges in fighting the widespread — ...

African Economies Haunted by Oil-Backed Loans as Traders Call in Debts

Controversial deals that offered quick cash in exchange for future oil production are eating up government budgets.

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Flight of the Monarch: US Gov't Contracted Airline Once...

U.S. authorities awarded Monarch Air Group over 100 contracts, including transporting protected witnesses and fuel ...

A Fishy Business: Shifting Profits Out of Africa

An Icelandic company at the centre of a Namibian bribery scandal may have avoided paying ...

The Players and the Paperwork: Romania’s Trade in Black...

Undercover reporters from OCCRP and RISE Romania found a trade run by dealers with ties ...

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A Journalist’s Undying Legacy

Slovak reporter Ján Kuciak dedicated his life to holding power to account. Now OCCRP is creating a resource for others to continue his work.

Calling London

A UK-based accountant keeps getting accused of helping the Italian mafia hide its money — and British authorities keep doing nothing.

Kyrgyzstan's Database Disaster: How One Official Signed Away Millions in Procurement Contracts

Internal documents detail investigations into inflated contracts and IT systems delays that hurt the country’s exporters.

Georgia On Their Minds

The Rotenbergs’ secret American mansions, abandoned under US sanctions.

Olympic Losses: How a failed Cyprus-based insurer was seized by alleged Bulgarian gangsters

Regulators missed Olympic Insurance’s criminal links. Then it collapsed, leaving 45m euros of unpaid claims.

Unreal Estate

How the inner circle of a prominent Croatian businessman received Russian money for fake real-estate deals.

Toiling in Europe’s Gray Zone

Thousands of Ukrainians are entering Estonia on Polish work visas that leave them open to exploitation.

OCCRP Person of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption: Joseph Muscat

A murdered journalist. Shady offshore deals. A tiny nation in the grip of large-scale criminal interests. These are the leading factors behind the selection of Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as the OCCRP 2019 Person of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption.

Family Perks

In Tajikistan, resorts belonging to the ruling family get tax-free facelifts.

A Real Estate Empire Built on Dark Money

The Abdukadyr family made millions on the back of an illicit Central Asian cargo business. Now we know where the money ended up: exclusive villas, gleaming high-rises, and phantom investments across the world.

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Equatorial Guinea's Oil Minister Allegedly Siphoned Off Millions from Public Construction Project

US Recovered Over $1.6 Billion in 2020 Thanks to Whistleblowers

US Real Estate Firms Forfeit $50m in Alleged Drug Money

Cypriot Journalist Quits After Saying President Profited from Golden Passports

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Named OCCRP’s 2020 Corrupt Person of the Year

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Named OCCRP’s 2020 Corrupt Person of the Year

‘They Are Finishing the Trees’: Chinese Companies and Namibian Elites Make Millions Illegally Logging the Last Rosewoods

Egyptian Medical Staff Treating COVID-19 Patients Given Old, Fake Masks

New Tool Helps Journalists in Arab World Follow the Money

China’s Oppressed Uighurs Made COVID-19 Protection Sold Throughout Europe

Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Move Toward Europe

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