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How a Notorious Arms Dealer Hijacked Niger’s Budget and Bought Weapons From Russia

At least $137 million of public funds was stolen from one of the world’s least developed countries through corrupt arms deals.

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6 Aug 2020
Mark Anderson, Khadija Sharife, and Nathalie Prevost
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Paul Radu Answers Questions on Cross-Border Journalism

Every quarter, members of OCCRP’s Accomplice program submit questions to an OCCRP journalist about one of their investigations. For our first Q&A, Co-Founder Paul Radu answered questions ...
5 Aug 2020
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Murder, Drugs and Extortion in Tuscany’s Chinese Underworld

A Chinese gang is using guns, threats, and fear to corner the market for transporting Chinese-made goods in Europe.
30 Jul 2020
Davide Del Monte, Gloria Riva and Stefano Vergine (info.nodes)

OCCRP Concerned by Serbian Government’s Selective Inquiry into Investigative Journalism Outlets and Civil Society Organizations

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is concerned by what appears to be a selective inquiry by Serbian authorities into several investigative journalism outlets and ...
30 Jul 2020
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The Spoils of Fishrot: Tracking the Property Holdings of Key Figures In Namibia’s Biggest Bribery Scandal

Late last year, the southern African nation of Namibia was rocked by the “Fishrot” scandal, in which officials stood accused of arranging for lucrative fishing rights to ...
24 Jul 2020
Shinovene Immanuel and Tutaleni Pinehas (The Namibian)

Argentina Confronts its Multi-Billion Dollar Offshore Wealth Problem

As Argentina has been renegotiating its US$65 billion debt with foreign creditors, it is also grappling with the fact that up to six times that amount is ...
23 Jul 2020
Eli Moskowitz

Hundreds of Millions Flow From Russian Ministry Into An Obscure Geneva Organization — And Officials’ Pockets

For years the ICDO, a decades-old international organization based in Switzerland, functioned essentially as a front for the Russian government. The organization’s lack of transparency and dependence ...
22 Jul 2020
Olesya Shmagun

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Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces have been described as “impenetrable,” with very little about the country's military publicly known — other than that it clearly plays a large role in the survival of the embattled regime of Nicolás Maduro. Even attempts to pinpoint the number of its generals vary widely.

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Crime & Quarantine: How the Pandemic is Squeezing Italian Crime Groups

It was a glimpse of a glow of a cigarette behind the shutters of an abandoned house that led Italian police to the crime boss they had been tracking for more than a week.

Carabinieri officers patrol outside the town of Castiglione D'Adda, which has been closed by the Italian government due to a coronavirus outbreak, Italy, February 23, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo MangiapaneCarabinieri officers patrol outside the town of Castiglione D'Adda, which has been closed by the Italian government due to a coronavirus outbreak, Italy, February 23, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane.

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OCCRP Condemns Baseless Investigation of Ukraine Member Center Slidstvo.Info

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) condemns last week’s decision by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs to pursue a baseless pre-trial investigation into our local member center, Slidstvo.Info. Issued in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from the independent media outlet submitted late last year, this decision threatens the right of a free press to access information and inform citizens around the world.

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