Middlemen Push Up Prices As Gazans Struggle To Survive
A broken and exploited system where money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain puts the trickle of goods coming into...
A broken and exploited system where money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain puts the trickle of goods coming into...
Roman Abramovich acquired the economic rights to multiple young football players via contracts that have since been banned by FIFA. Experts said the FIFA ban may have been breached in two cases. One of these players said he felt he was treated as a commodity and lost control over his career.
Read more: Abramovich Signed Football Players to “Modern Slavery” Deals that May Breach FIFA Rules
November 10, 2023 - A civil court in Skopje, North Macedonia has ruled against OCCRP member center Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) and its editor in chief, Saska Cvetkovska, in a defamation case brought by businessman Kocho Angjushev. The court ordered IRL and Cvetkovska to pay €1 in damages, as well as both sides' legal costs.
Former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich’s offshore companies made backchannel payments worth tens of millions of dollars to football agents, clubs, scouts and directors, leaked documents reveal.
Read more: Abramovich’s Secret Football Payments May Have Breached Financial Fair Play Rules
New insights into how Cyprus has catered to the rich and powerful — especially Russian oligarchs who used its service industry to manage their affairs.
Leaked documents show staff at PwC Cyprus hurried to restructure companies belonging to Russian oligarchs as the prospect of sanctions loomed. Now Cyprus says it is investigating one case in which PwC staff appeared to work on the transfer of an oligarch’s assets in the days after he was sanctioned by the EU.
Read more: Cyprus Wing of Auditing Giant PwC May Have Breached Sanctions in Work for Oligarch
In 2021, Colombian authorities seized a large shipment of illegal shark fins destined for Hong Kong. A company owned by the son of the former head of the Cali Cartel had sent the package to Bogotá.
Read more: Illegal Shark Fin Bust Leads to Company Owned by Colombian Drug Lord’s Son
After emerging from a Venezuelan prison, the ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang has spread to half a dozen countries, bringing kidnapping, drug trafficking, and contract killings with it. Now, there are signs the gang may also be spreading to the U.S.
Since OCCRP published an investigation in August that uncovered potentially controversial shareholders in India’s third-largest conglomerate, reporters who worked on the story have been targeted with state intimidation and surveillance attempts.
Read more: Indian Journalists Targeted with State Intimidation and Spyware
This week, OCCRP and 40 media partners published “NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order,” a major project that shed new light on the inner workings of modern-day organized crime in Latin America.
Europe’s commercial ports are top entry points for cocaine flooding in at record rates. The work of a Dutch hacker, who was hired by drug traffickers to penetrate port IT networks, reveals how this type of smuggling has become easier than ever.
Read more: Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe’s Biggest Ports
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