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The FinCEN Files

In a series of articles presented this week, the FinCEN Files crack open the usually secretive world of international bank regulation to show how...

20 Sep 2020
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Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Oligarchs, Crooks, and a Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Deal

Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the relationship was built by a circle that included Trump’s favorite ...
18 Sep 2020
Aubrey Belford and Adam Klasfeld

In Bed With a Dictator’s Daughter — Again

Even as Swedish telecom TeliaSonera emphatically denied bribing Gulnara Karimova, the company was busy negotiating another secret multi-million-dollar payment to the daughter of the late Uzbek president.
16 Sep 2020
Ola Westerberg (OCCRP), Joachim Dyfvermark (SVT), and Sven Bergman (SVT)

Biometric Bribery: Inside Semlex’s Global Playbook

Semlex is an unassuming Brussels-based company that supplies biometric documents such as passports and driving licenses to governments and international bodies.
9 Sep 2020
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Powerful Slovak Businessman Cleared of Murdering Journalist

Marian Kočner, who was accused of masterminding the killing of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, is cleared of murder.
3 Sep 2020
Pavla Holcová and Eva Kubániová (Investigace.cz) and Laura Kellöová (Aktuality.sk)

GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows

A low-profile US-Serbian gang has trafficked cocaine to Europe for decades. Some credit its longevity to friends in the shadows.
1 Sep 2020
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Holy Rollers: The Religious Leaders Using Churches to Launder Illicit Cash Across the Americas

When Erik Súñiga died in U.S. custody in April, he left a rich religious and political legacy in the Guatemalan town where he founded an evangelical church, ...
27 Aug 2020
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Western Promises

Eastern European women dreaming of a better life in the Netherlands are being forced into prostitution in The Hague, the seat of international justice. To protect victims’ identities, OCCRP has assigned them pseudonyms throughout this article.

(Credit: Edin Pasovic)(Credit: Edin Pasovic)

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