Notorious Laundromats Used in Iran’s Anti-Sanction ‘Economic Jihad’

The word jihad, usually defined as a struggle against the enemies of Islam, took on a new meaning six years ago when Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei declared 2011 the “year of economic jihad.”

Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran. (Credit: www.leader.ir)

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Documents Show Arms Network Skirted EU Embargoes

The documents obtained by OCCRP from Techimpex, a Ukrainian arms firm, show more than a profitable weapons laundering scheme. (See main story: Arms-Washing)

A warehouse outside of Kiev belonging to S-Profit that is leased by Techimpex. (Credit: Graham Stack)

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Documentary Explores Dodgy Financial Ties of Trump Associate

A documentary made in collaboration with OCCRP on the Central Asian money links of a former associate of US President Donald Trump aired on Wednesday after surviving a last-minute legal challenge.

Felix Sater. (Photo credit: Zembla, Dutch Public Television)

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Arms-Washing: Ukraine Network Moves Embargoed European Arms to Africa and the Middle East

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.

A Techimpex production facility in the Kiev region as pictured in the company's catalogue. (Credit: Techimpex)

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Gold and Chaos in Orinoco

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 devastating effects of the mining on the people who live there.

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Statement from OCCRP on Government Attacks on KRIK.rs

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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Revealed: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2 Billion on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels

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 destination: Syria.

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The Azerbaijani Laundromat

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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Favoritism Shears Competitors in Georgian Sheep Industry

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 companies have driven him out of what had been a lucrative market.

Herds of sheep in Georgia's mountainous Tusheti region. (Photo: Studio Monitor)

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Firm Linked to Putin Friend Smoothed Path for BP in Russia

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 into one of the biggest deals in that country’s history: BP’s 2013 sale of its stake in Russia’s third-largest oil company to state-owned oil giant Rosneft for a hefty amount of Rosneft shares and $12.5 billion in cash.

A BP station in Moscow. (Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)

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