Middlemen Push Up Prices As Gazans Struggle To Survive
A broken and exploited system where money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain puts the trickle of goods coming into...
A broken and exploited system where money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain puts the trickle of goods coming into...
Raimbek Matraimov, a shadowy Kyrgyz political operator, has long denied his ties to Khabibula Abdukadyr, the secretive tycoon who made millions in alleged smuggling with his help. In 2021, his son married Khabibula’s daughter.
Read more: Two Families, Notorious for Enabling Corruption in Kyrgyzstan, United in Marriage
President Sadyr Japarov has promoted two major projects — a large mosque and a complex in the center of Bishkek — that will be developed by an infamous tycoon accused of smuggling. The projects also appear to have a personal connection to the president’s family.
Members of OCCRP’s Accomplice program are invited to a live discussion on Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. EDT/5:00 p.m. EEST.
In a discussion moderated by OCCRP editor Ilya Lozovsky, reporters Anand Mangnale and Ravi Nair will speak about their recent investigation into India’s third-largest conglomerate in a live webinar on Thursday, September 7 2023, at 15:00 CET/18:30 IST.
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across India, major mining and oil company Vedanta quietly lobbied the government to dilute environmental safeguards regulating the oil and mining industries.
Two men who secretly invested in the massive conglomerate turn out to have close ties to its majority owners, the Adani family, raising questions about violations of Indian law.
The Venezuelan strongman’s former nurse, Claudia Díaz, became head of the country’s treasury. She’s now serving a term in a U.S. prison for laundering millions — but European investigators are looking into the rest of her fortune. She didn’t stash it alone.
New sanctions imposed on former Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salame this month have likely brought the total value of frozen assets linked to him and his associates to at least $200 million, OCCRP has found.
Hong Kong property developer Yu Shunhui is known for his philanthropy and real estate deals, but there is a darker side to his business. Reporters have discovered that he is behind a company named in a Canadian organized crime case –– and they uncovered further ties between Yu and Chinese underworld figures.
Read more: Canadian Case Exposes Hong Kong Developer’s Corporate Ties to Chinese Criminal Underworld
Australia’s top criminal intelligence agency suspected Tom Doshi, a leading Albanian businessman and politician with ties to the prime minister, of leading a criminal group in the country that perpetrates immigration fraud, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
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