In 2015 and 2016, Ukrinmash, a Ukrainian state arms exporter, signed deals with customers in Uganda and Burundi to sell 59 amphibious armored patrol vehicles.
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A joint investigation by Efecto Cocuyo and OCCRP explores the Orinoco Mining Arc — the Venezuelan government's controversial attempt to find new sources of wealth — and the ...
It has come to our attention that members of the current government have launched a smearing campaign against one of the members of our network.
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The Pentagon is on the hunt for Soviet-style arms across Eastern Europe -- and it’s using questionable contractors and misleading documents to get the weapons to their final ...
The Azerbaijani Laundromat is a complex money-laundering operation and slush fund that handled $2.9 billion over a two-year period through four shell companies registered in the UK.
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Beka Gonashvili's love for Georgian folk music led him into the sheep export business nearly a decade ago. But he’s singing a sad song now, claiming that government-connected ...
If you want to do business in Moscow, it helps to hire a pal of President Vladimir Putin.
That’s the conclusion reached by investigators for Transparency International-Russia, who looked ...
A joint investigation by Efecto Cocuyo and OCCRP explores the Orinoco Mining Arc — the Venezuelan government's controversial attempt to find new sources of wealth...
It has come to our attention that members of the current government have launched a smearing campaign against one of the members of our network.
...
The Pentagon is on the hunt for Soviet-style arms across Eastern Europe -- and it’s using questionable contractors and misleading documents to get the weapons...
The Azerbaijani Laundromat is a complex money-laundering operation and slush fund that handled $2.9 billion over a two-year period through four shell companies registered in...
Beka Gonashvili's love for Georgian folk music led him into the sheep export business nearly a decade ago. But he’s singing a sad song now,...
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) expresses deep concern over the possible deportation of Novaya Gazeta reporter Khudoberdi Nurmatov,...
A man covering his face is seen at the construction site of a residential high-rise development in Kyiv’s Holosiivsky district on Jan. 27. Local residents have staged protests believing the project threatens the nearby park and urban infrastructure. (Photo by: Volodymyr Petrov) The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine’s intelligence and investigative agency, promised to provide apartments to families of Donbas war veterans in a 13-building residential estate under construction in the southern district of Kyiv, bordering a 4,525-hectare (11,200 acre) national park. The prime land was given to the SBU for its use but was zoned for military purposes only.
A Serbian tabloid has alleged that a respected journalism non-profit is attempting to overthrow the Serbian government, citing information that appears to have come from secret services, intelligence or surveillance.
They are few but they are vocal. They are religious and march with icons by they also wear military clothes. They love God, but hate war refugees and minorities. They believe they defend their country, but regularly flout its laws.
The nephew of Armenia President Serzh Sargsyan is a 50 percent shareholder in two hydropower projects on the Yeghegis River. According to a Ministry of Nature Protection monitor, the numerous projects on the river are increasing the water temperature. Small hydroelectric power plants in Armenia are pouring electricity into the country’s grid—and a steady stream of guaranteed income into the pockets of the political insiders who own them.
The retail giant IKEA is one of the world’s largest furniture makers, using one percent of the global wood supply each year to make about 100 million pieces of inexpensive, smartly designed furniture sold through its international network of stores.
Zemun clan leader Dušan Spasojević (right) shown with hitman Sretko Kalinić (left) ordered a young doctor at the Emergency Clinic in Belgrade to finish off a Montenegrin crime figure who was injured in an assassination attempt. In the late summer of 2002, Montenegrin criminal Veselin Božović looked like a lucky man.
The mobster from Bijelo Polje had been ambushed by Kalashnikov-carrying members of the rival Rakovac gang in Belgrade while he was driving his black jeep in a three-car convoy. His wife and child, driving in a BMW in the same convoy, were also hit.
Read more: Serbia: Skeletons in the Closet – How Did the Health Minister get an Apartment
Russian-Norwegian telecom operator paid possibly as much as US$ 183.5 million in bribes and other payments to Gulnara Karimova, a daughter of the Uzbek president Islam Karimov
Read more: VimpelCom Fined US$ 795 million Over Uzbekistan Telecoms Bribes
Let’s raise a glass of – what, exactly?
Commercial beer in Romania and other developing countries is increasingly produced with the aid of little-known biotechnology — industrial enzymes that make beer faster and also allow brewers to use untraditional, lower-cost cereals such as corn or unmalted barley.
Darko Saric at court (photo:KRIK)Balkan drug lord Darko Saric is no stranger to courtrooms in Serbia. Stories on his ongoing trials have been published on the front pages of Serbian news portals for the past few years, catapulting the once-obscure organized crime figure into one of the most talked-about "persons of interest" in Serbia.
As the internet becomes more central to our lives, the question grows more urgent: who owns it? OCCRP, in partnership with RISE Project and EurActiv.ro, set out to find out in the Internet Ownership Project.
Read more: OCCRP, RISE & EurActiv Launch Internet Ownership Project
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