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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 ...

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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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Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Oligarchs, Crooks, and a Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Deal

Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the relationship was built by a circle that included Trump’s favorite lobbyist, a key character in the Ukraine impeachment scandal, a Kremlin-linked oligarch, and a shipping tycoon charged with terrorism.

In Bed With a Dictator’s Daughter — Again

Even as Swedish telecom TeliaSonera emphatically denied bribing Gulnara Karimova, the company was busy negotiating another secret multi-million-dollar payment to the daughter of the late Uzbek president.

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Biometric Bribery: Inside Semlex’s Global Playbook

Semlex is an unassuming Brussels-based company that supplies biometric documents such as passports and driving licenses to governments and international bodies.

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Powerful Slovak Businessman Cleared of Murdering Journalist

Marian Kočner, who was accused of masterminding the killing of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, is cleared of murder.

GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows

A low-profile US-Serbian gang has trafficked cocaine to Europe for decades. Some credit its longevity to friends in the shadows.

Holy Rollers: The Religious Leaders Using Churches to Launder Illicit Cash Across the Americas

When Erik Súñiga died in U.S. custody in April, he left a rich religious and political legacy in the Guatemalan town where he founded an evangelical church, and served as mayor for over a decade.

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The Quiet Man in Stockholm Who Laundered China’s Oil Money for Iran

By all outward appearances, Hatam Khatoun Nema was a small-time money changer working from a nondescript office in Järfälla, a workaday Stockholm suburb.

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A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections Surround Beirut Explosion Shipment

Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port on August 4, Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets in shock, outrage, and grief.

How Alexei Navalny Exposed Russian Corruption

Russia’s best-known dissident — now fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital after an apparent poisoning — is usually described as an “opposition politician.” But Navalny’s most enduring legacy may be his investigations into the corruption at the heart of the Putin regime.

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Tax Rules for the Super-Rich Make the Isle of Man a Haven for Private Jets

The British crown dependency has registered over 1,000 private jets while offering liberal tax loopholes for the wealthy.

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Equatorial Guinea's Oil Minister Allegedly Siphoned Off Millions from Public Construction Project

Venezuela Targets Journalists, Human Rights Defenders

Authorities to Pursue Graft Probe Against Former Romanian PM

After Brexit, the UK is Open to Almost Unrestrained Antiquities Trade

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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