Rare Elephants’ Survival Roulette on Kenya-Tanzania Border
Roaming in his natural habitat, Gilgil crossed from Kenya into Tanzania, and paid for it with his life.
A herd of super-tusker elephants. (Photo: Aew,...
Roaming in his natural habitat, Gilgil crossed from Kenya into Tanzania, and paid for it with his life.
A herd of super-tusker elephants. (Photo: Aew,...
The murdered journalist’s family has braved harassment, government resistance, and a longstanding culture of impunity. But “there is no time to grieve,” her sister says.
A Florida judge sent Mexican scientist Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes to jail in June on the charge of being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, reporters have discovered he was involved in discussions with the government of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador on plans for an ambitious railway project.
The documentary was panned for its hagiographic take on Kazakhstan’s longtime dictator. As it turns out, a foundation controlled by Nazarbayev paid for its production.
The longtime head of the Secretariat stepped down in July, but is now under investigation for allegedly abusing his office. He has been accused by developers and builders of demanding large bribes in exchange for deeming buildings “legal.”
When Sun Daocun died in 2021, he left behind a string of unresolved debts which had enraged a long line of creditors. Now, data from inside Credit Suisse reveals how Sun’s girlfriend, a known proxy for his business affairs, may have shielded his wealth from confiscation by hiding it at the Swiss banking giant.
Take a deep dive into how undercover investigators helped law enforcement to bring down one of the top players in Vietnam's wildlife trafficking underworld.
Accused of corruption in multiple countries, Libyan oil tycoon Tatanaki went from funding lobbying efforts that promoted the Gaddafi regime to backing a rebel general’s campaign to vying for the country’s presidency himself. Along the way, he held at least eight accounts at Credit Suisse, including one worth over half a billion Swiss francs.
Read more: The Many Lives — and Credit Suisse Accounts — of Gaddafi-Linked Lobbyist Hassan Tatanaki
In the 1990s, executives at an obscure energy company bribed Nigerian officials to obtain spectacularly profitable oil mining licenses. Now, the Suisse Secrets project reveals that the company’s parent firm poured money into Swiss bank accounts held jointly by its employees and African elites, including a Nigerian spy chief.
Read more: Swiss-Based Fund AOG Poured Cash Into Joint Accounts With African Politicians
The raid follows months of investigation into the sanctioned oligarch’s suspicious financial transactions and failure to file tax returns.
The sacred and the profane mix uneasily at this holy spot for both the ’Ndrangheta mafia and Catholic worshippers in Italy’s south.
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