Cyprus Records Shed Light on Libya's Hidden Millions
Newly leaked records from Cyprus show how a Gaddafi-era procurement official who stole millions from his country's government used offshore companies and multiple bank accounts to ...
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Going Bananas: Flanders Transformed into Hub for International Cocaine Trafficking
A Belgian mobster was able to smuggle tons of cocaine into Europe by hiding it in fruit shipments. When the time came to launder the profits, ...
The Gambian Government Continues Controversial Contract
Under the rule of ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh, the Gambian government signed an opaque contract with a controversial firm to manage its citizens’ identity documents. The ...
The Secret Players Behind Macedonia's Fake News Sites
The fake news sites that flourished in Macedonia in 2016 weren’t just the work of local teenagers — they involved ultra-partisan American writers, including a GOP ...
Russian Businessman Behind Unrest in Macedonia
A Russian billionaire living in Greece has given hundreds of thousands of euros to Macedonian opponents of the country’s proposed name change. The recipients include football ...
Georgian Prosecutors Investigating Spanish Basketball Deal
The Georgian Basketball Federation signed an expensive deal to develop its young players in Spain. Nearly four years later, it has almost nothing to show for ...
Bad Romanian Horse Meat Stampedes Across Europe
Over and over again, Romanian horse meat laced with cadmium made its way into European markets. A new investigation finds that the companies involved used counterfeit ...
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Going Bananas: Flanders Transformed into Hub for International Cocaine Trafficking
A Belgian mobster was able to smuggle tons of cocaine into Europe by hiding it in fruit shipments. When the time came to launder the...
The Gambian Government Continues Controversial Contract
Under the rule of ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh, the Gambian government signed an opaque contract with a controversial firm to manage its citizens’ identity documents....
The Secret Players Behind Macedonia's Fake News Sites
The fake news sites that flourished in Macedonia in 2016 weren’t just the work of local teenagers — they involved ultra-partisan American writers, including a...
Russian Businessman Behind Unrest in Macedonia
A Russian billionaire living in Greece has given hundreds of thousands of euros to Macedonian opponents of the country’s proposed name change. The recipients include...
Journalism for Future Challenges 2018 Program
The OCCRP is partnering up with the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) Center for Media Studies to present the Journalism...
Georgian Prosecutors Investigating Spanish Basketball Deal
The Georgian Basketball Federation signed an expensive deal to develop its young players in Spain. Nearly four years later, it has almost nothing to show...
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For Love or Money: An ‘Ndrangheta Daughter on West Africa’s Cocaine Trail
It’s hard for anyone to leave Italy’s secretive, clannish ‘Ndrangheta crime families. For women, doubly so.
Dockworkers in Abidjan’s port, Ivory Coast. (Photo: Romain Seaf)
Read more: For Love or Money: An ‘Ndrangheta Daughter on West Africa’s Cocaine Trail
Miss Venezuela Pageant: Saints and Beauty Make Toxic Mix
“For decades, a dark cloud of sorts has hovered over the country and reality has been tainted, what was once beautiful has become horrid, what was moral has become immoral. Miss Venezuela … could be no exception, it could not save itself from this plague. Nothing could.”
Goodbye to Miss Venezuela, a novel by Francisco Suniaga
The 2017 Miss Venezuela pageant. (Photo: EFE news agency)
Read more: Miss Venezuela Pageant: Saints and Beauty Make Toxic Mix
DRC Company Promised Cheap Food, Delivers Stolen Money
A tax-exempt company said it would supply inexpensive food to the people of the DRC. But leaked documents reveal that it received millions from the central bank illegally -- only for the money to disappear into accounts linked to the president’s cronies.
UNICEF distributes food in South Kivu, DRC. (Julien Harneis, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Read more: DRC Company Promised Cheap Food, Delivers Stolen Money
Paradise Papers
The Paradise Papers is a major new leak of documents from two offshore services firms based in Bermuda and Singapore, as well as from 19 corporate registries maintained by governments in secret offshore jurisdictions. The documents were obtained by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which organized a collaborative investigation with dozens of outlets across the world, including the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Guptas, Nedbank skillfully extract money from South African state firm
In partnership with Nedbank, one of South Africa’s largest banks, companies controlled by or connected to the wealthy and politically-connected Gupta family via its lieutenants extracted more than 1 billion rand (US$ 67.2 million) from Transnet, a state-owned company charged with constructing rail, port, and other transportation infrastructure to serve South African citizens.
Credit: www.transnet.net
Read more: Guptas, Nedbank skillfully extract money from South African state firm
An Ill Wind: Lithuanian MP Investigated over Windfall, Gazprom Ties
Artūras Skardžius, a member of the Lithuanian parliament who is deeply involved in energy issues, is under investigation for a windfall his family received from renting land to a company that subleased parts of it to a wind farm.
Wind turbines in Lithuania's Šilutė district. (Photo by: Lukas Balandis / 15min)
Read more: An Ill Wind: Lithuanian MP Investigated over Windfall, Gazprom Ties
Putin and the Proxies
A Novaya Gazeta and OCCRP investigation looks into the wealth surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Awards for Sale
Three years after I investigated bogus international awards sold for thousands of euros, I got invited to pick up mine -- for a small fee of just €4,750.
A screenshot of the Otherways web site.
OCCRP Condemns the Murder of Maltese Reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) strongly condemns the murder of Maltese investigative reporter and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Photo credit: daphnecaruanagalizia.com
Read more: OCCRP Condemns the Murder of Maltese Reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Spy Who Overthrew Macedonia’s Government
For long-serving spy Gjorgi Lazarevski, a 2010 raid on one of Macedonia’s few remaining independent TV stations was the last straw.
Gjorgi Lazarevski, a former Macedonian intelligence officer who helped expose a massive wiretapping scheme that brought down the government. (Credit: Nova TV)
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