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Opaque Coronavirus Procurement Deal Hands Millions to Slovenian Gambling Mogul

A Slovenian businessman with investments in gambling — and no background in healthcare — managed in just one day to secure a lucrative contract...

3 Apr 2020
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Skoll Award Marks Major Investment to Scale OCCRP's Impact

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has received the , given to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven ...
2 Apr 2020
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Crime, Corruption, and Coronavirus

Countries around the world are struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic. But in times of crisis, there are those who seek their own advantage.
24 Mar 2020
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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 ...
24 Mar 2020
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Without a Trace

Last century, tobacco was one of the world’s most successful industries. This century, if current trends continue, it is expected to kill one billion people.
11 Mar 2020
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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 ...
10 Mar 2020
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Web of Call-Center Scammers Reaches Into Albania, Georgia

A scam call center based out of a Kyiv mall unmasked by journalists this week has links to other operations far beyond Ukrainan borders.
6 Mar 2020
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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.

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

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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.

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