Alleged Italian Mobsters Grew Powerful in Toronto. Experts Say Canadian Law Can’t Stop Them.
A fugitive in Italy, Angelo Figliomeni lives free in Canada, where a major organized crime case against him fell apart.
...A fugitive in Italy, Angelo Figliomeni lives free in Canada, where a major organized crime case against him fell apart.
...The Suisse Secrets leak lays bare the extent of the relationship between Credit Suisse and the politically-connected Venezuelan financial sector.
Read more: The ‘Savage Years’: Credit Suisse and Venezuela’s Toxic Bond Market
Alisher Usmanov, who has been closely tied to top Russian leaders, hides behind trusts, secretive offshore companies, Swiss bank accounts, and his family members to detach his name from his billions.
OCCRP and Guardian journalists will share insights and answer questions about their Russian Asset Tracker project in a live webinar.
Introducing a project to track down and catalogue the vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nations around the world, including most of Europe, have moved against Russian oligarchs, restricting where their private jets can freely travel. The oligarchs, meanwhile, are frantically trying to evade the confiscation of these assets. Plane tracking lets us follow some of these moves. Here’s how it’s done.
"Citizenship planning” company Henley & Partners helped a bevy of high-risk clients gain citizenship in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis. It routed donations to a public fund that stopped operating after it made bad investments in two ventures linked to Henley's chairman.
Read more: Conflicts Of Interest And Controversial Clients: Henley & Partners’ Caribbean Business
In 2009 and 2010, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, which infamously misused Facebook data in the 2016 U.S. election, oversaw multiple electoral campaigns across the Caribbean. Behind the scenes, a Swiss lawyer — known as the “Passport King” for his work as chairman of citizenship planning firm Henley & Partners — was allegedly orchestrating funding to bring sympathetic politicians to power.
OCCRP’s investigation into Henley’s operations in the Caribbean found clients with backgrounds that should have raised red flags.
Read more: Politicians, Crooks and Fraudsters: Some Of Henley’s Most Controversial Caribbean Clients
Álvaro Sobrinho, who led an Angolan bank that collapsed with billions of dollars of unexplained debts, is linked by new documents and testimony to a scheme to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars of government-backed financing for social housing. Sobrinho had 12 accounts in Suisse Secrets data, three of which were set up around the time of the alleged plot.
Read more: New Documents Link Scandal-Hit Angolan Banker To Embezzlement Scheme
Solway was labeled a “high-risk” client over suspect transactions, while companies tied to the mining group and its executives were reported to U.S. regulators.
Read more: Mining Secrets: Solway-Linked Companies Moved Nearly $2 Billion in Suspicious Funds
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