Banker On The Run

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 ...

18 Nov 2019

Šarūnas Černiauskas (Tiriamosios žurnalistikos centras), Vlad Lavrov (OCCRP) and Michael Nikbakhsh (profil)

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 ...

Report: Russia Laundered Millions via Danske Bank Estonia

The Estonian branch of Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest bank, closed the accounts of several companies in 2013 after realizing ...

OCCRP Statement on Cyprus Government Response to Recent Investigation

The Cypriot government responded on Saturday to an from Aug. 14. Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou the report ...

Features

Court Dismissed: Montenegro Whistleblowers Fear Losing Legal Recourse

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

Mining, Murder, and Impunity

A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts. A memorial to Mariano Abarca Roblero. 2010. (Credit: ...

Fake Cigarette Ring Exposes Jordan’s Corruption Woes

A high-profile trial against businessmen, a former minister, and two dozen accomplices shines a spotlight on illicit cigarette production, widespread smuggling, and the ...

From Our Members

How a Meeting on a Yacht May Have Changed

A newly revealed photo shows a Kosovar businessman and politician meeting with an alleged organized ...

The Rich and Powerful Cash In From Ukraine’s Green

Ukrainian politicians and their friends stand to reap a windfall from solar and wind energy ...

Questions Linger After Indictment in Slovak Journalist’s Murder

A wealthy Slovak businessman is accused of ordering the murder of a Slovak journalist and ...

How IOS Group Supersized the Shell Company Game

Multiple financial scandals uncovered in recent years have relied on the shadowy world of offshore shell companies to make them work. In case after case, the schemes have one thing in common: The companies were created by a corporate formation agent called IOS Group.

The Troika Laundromat’s Friendly EU Banker

Troika Dialog, once Russia’s largest private investment bank, couldn’t have set up and run the Troika Laundromat without Vladimir Romanov’s Ukio Bankas. The lender shuttled billions of dollars through secretive offshore companies to benefit Russia’s elite.

The Rich and Powerful Cash In From Ukraine’s Green Energy Gold Rush

Ukrainian politicians and their friends stand to reap a windfall from solar and wind energy projects, while ratepayers are at risk of paying drastically higher rates, OCCRP partner Bihus.info has found.

South African Investment Firm Looted Pension Fund With Insider Information

A little-known South African investment firm with a link to the influential Gupta family of business tycoons used insider information to fleece one of the country’s state-owned pension funds.

From Church to State

A Russian environmental activist was brutally beaten after discovering a mysterious chapel in a forest by the sea. Journalists followed the building’s trail - and it led them straight to Russia’s powerful Federal Guard Service.

Threats to Press Freedom Undermine Investigation of Dark Money

UNESCO’s celebrations for World Press Freedom Day in Addis Ababa this week are meant to recognize an important turnaround for press freedom in one of the world’s least free countries. Since coming to power last year, Ethiopia’s new prime minister Abiy Ahmed has begun to reform its oppressive political system, releasing imprisoned journalists and lifting bans on independent outlets.

Protesters mark World Press Freedom Day in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

The Rise and Fall of Mafia Women

Just like Homer’s queen of Ithaca, Maria Campagna loyally pulled the strings in the “kingdom” of her incarcerated husband for years. But Salvatore Cappello was not sailing from one adventure to another. He was serving a sentence under a particularly restrictive prison regime reserved for mafiosi, murderers, and terrorists.

Photo: CC0 Public Domain

Oligarchs Weaponized Cyprus Branch of Ukraine’s Largest Bank to Send $5.5 Billion Abroad

Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov stand accused of stealing $5.5 billion from PrivatBank, which held the deposits of a third of Ukrainians. Now we know how they did it.

Cyprus-Branch

Multimillion Passport Deal Under Investigation in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan’s security services are investigating current and former government officials for accepting bribes from a Lithuanian company that won a tender to supply biometric passport booklets. Reporters for Kloop and OCCRP found what was wrong with the tender procedure.

Passport-Deal

Tropical Hideaway Reveals Romania's Political Secrets

New evidence from a tropical Brazilian getaway show that Liviu Dragnea, one of Romania’s leading politicians, has not been truthful about his relationship with the former head of a company that received millions of euros in EU construction money.

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Police Files in Kuciak Murder to Be Opened to Journalists

Serbia Investigates alleged Serbian-Russian Spy Connection

Ten Arrested in London for Hauling Millions in Suitcases into UAE

Australian Bank Accused of Millions of Money Laundering Breaches

Police Files in Kuciak Murder to Be Opened to Journalists

Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia

Swedbank’s High-Risk Secrets

The Vienna Bank Job

Banker On The Run

Court Dismissed: Montenegro Whistleblowers Fear Losing Legal Recourse

Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Millions Missing From Montenegro Bank

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