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 ...

Georgia: Studio Monitori Wins 3rd Friedman Prize

For the third year in a row, OCCRP partner Studio Monitori has been awarded the Josh Friedman Prize for the ...

Senegal’s Offshore Oil Reserves a Pricey Pawn in Covert Deal

Mining magnate Frank Timis appears to have earned hundreds of millions of dollars by muscling into a deal for a ...

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Mining, Murder, and Impunity

A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts. A memorial to Mariano Abarca Roblero. 2010. (Credit: ...

Fake Cigarette Ring Exposes Jordan’s Corruption Woes

A high-profile trial against businessmen, a former minister, and two dozen accomplices shines a spotlight on illicit cigarette production, widespread smuggling, and the ...

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 ...

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How a Meeting on a Yacht May Have Changed

A newly revealed photo shows a Kosovar businessman and politician meeting with an alleged organized ...

The Rich and Powerful Cash In From Ukraine’s Green

Ukrainian politicians and their friends stand to reap a windfall from solar and wind energy ...

Questions Linger After Indictment in Slovak Journalist’s Murder

A wealthy Slovak businessman is accused of ordering the murder of a Slovak journalist and ...

US Lobbying Firm Launders Azerbaijan’s Reputation — And Gets “Laundromat” Cash

A purportedly private Azerbaijani organization paid over a million and a half dollars to a US firm to lobby for the country in Washington. That organization was secretly funded by the Azerbaijani Laundromat.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 2018.

Baku’s Man in America

A quarter-million dollars from the Azerbaijani Laundromat went to a US energy consultant of Azerbaijani origin who, for years, has lobbied in the interests of his native country in the halls of Congress.

Adil Baguirov Credit: Edin Pasovic / OCCRP

The Strange Evolution of Hungary’s Golden Visa Program

Rich people moving to Hungary had to buy a €300,000 government bond from mysterious offshore companies that made a good profit on the deal. The politicians who set those companies up broke all kinds of rules.

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Slovak Police Must Return Reporter’s Seized Phone Immediately

Yesterday, Slovakia’s National Crime Agency seized a mobile phone belonging to our partner, investigative reporter Pavla Holcova from the Czech Center for Investigative Reporting.

Czech investigative journalist Pavla Holcova. Credit: Aktuality.sk

Birth and Death in Venezuela's Time of Hunger

Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is threatening those who carry the future in their bellies. Pregnant women are going without adequate food or medical attention in the midst of a national economic emergency. The government insists on attributing the crisis to an external plot to overthrow it, while the opposition blames the administration for inefficiency and corruption.

Photo by: Adriana Fernandez Loureiro / Efecto Cocuyo

How Maltese Online Gambling Became an ATM for the Italian Mafia

Online gambling is huge in Malta — but it's not all fun and games. Here's how the island's internet casinos have become cash machines for the Italian mafia.

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Right-Wing Hungarian Media Moves Into the Balkans

Hungarians with links to the country’s pro-government media have embarked on a mass buy-up of Macedonian news outlets, part of a concerted push into the Balkans by media companies loyal to Viktor Orban.

Camera crews wait before a press conference in Skopje, Macedonia, 2017.

Death in a Smugglers’ Paradise

How two unlikely business partners — a beloved Maltese footballer and a Libyan militia chief— enlisted help from a man connected to the Sicilian mafia to develop a multi-million-euro fuel smuggling business in the Mediterranean.

Fishing boats in Marsaxlokk harbor, Malta, with a view of the Delimara power station.

World Press Freedom Day 2018: Collaboration amid Historic Threats

The journalists of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) face grave dangers and increasingly difficult challenges in their efforts to expose high-level corruption and government links to organized crime.

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Maltese Taxpayers Losing Out in Gas Deal with Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan's state energy company won an opaque contract to sell gas to Malta. Documents obtained by investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia before her death indicate that the island's taxpayers could be overpaying by tens of millions of dollars a year.

An LNG tanker moored off the village of Marsaxlokk, location of the recently constructed Delimara Power Station, which runs on natural gas. Credit: Reuters

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OCCRP Statement on Cyprus Government Response to Recent Investigation

How a Meeting on a Yacht May Have Changed Kosovo’s Political History

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Down the Guptas' Financial Rabbit Hole

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