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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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Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia

“I’m Aierken Saimaiti,” the man said. “Between 2011 and 2016, I transferred more than $700 million from Kyrgyzstan.”

Swedbank’s High-Risk Secrets

Leaked report shows Russian oligarch Mikhail Abyzov moved a fortune offshore through the Swedish bank.

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The Vienna Bank Job

A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.

When Lithuania’s AB Bankas Snoras imploded in 2011, its main shareholders, Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, had already left for the United Kingdom, where Antonov had accomplished a long-held dream to take over the Portsmouth Football Club.

Court Dismissed: Montenegro Whistleblowers Fear Losing Legal Recourse

Top judge says public officials fired by Parliament have no right to appeal to the courts.

A police officer guards High Court in Podgorica, Montenegro, July 19, 2017.(REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic)

Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Millions Missing From Montenegro Bank

Even as Atlas Bank was under interim management by the Central Bank, well-connected account holders managed to recover their millions. Ordinary citizens lost their savings.

Before Campaigning for Trump, Manafort Plotted to Rig Ukraine Telecoms Deal, Leaked Emails Show

Leaked emails show how Trump’s former campaign manager plotted with two current Ukrainian legislators to snap up Ukraine’s public telephone operator.

Exposed: The Ukrainian Politician Who Funded Paul Manafort’s Secret EU Lobbying Campaign

Serhiy Lovochkin, a Ukrainian MP and a leader of its largest opposition party, secretly funded the American lobbyist’s efforts to convince European leaders to sign an important agreement with Ukraine despite rule of law concerns.

Two Tractors Outside Rivne, Ukraine

Years ago, in rural Ukraine, a farmer’s tractor disappeared in the night. Months later, another tractor disappeared from another farm in almost exactly the same way.

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Public Land, Private Hands

Between 2000 and 2008, authorities in Kyrgyzstan divided up a large swath of Ataturk Park, a beloved green space in the country’s capital, Bishkek, and handed it out to 173 people — many of them wealthy and well-connected.

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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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