Stanko Subotic, a businessman twice indicted for cigarette smuggling and known for his links to an alleged drug lord, is set to make millions from the expansion of Belgrade's airport.
How a small firm of wealth advisers built up a $3 billion “golden passports” industry and gained influence in the Caribbean.
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“Citizenship for sale” has come under increasing scrutiny from governments and security agencies.
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Malta’s smugglers are creative in plying their trade, and international authorities are working hard to keep up. The ports of Valletta provide them with an...
Torture is widespread in police cells and prisons across Russia. A new analysis of court rulings shows what the perpetrators pay — if they pay...
When investigating why Russian border guards refused to let a Tajik citizen leave the country, a journalist discovered that the FSB has been systematically using...
Said, a young Somalian man, left his home in 2015 to escape recruitment by jihadist group al-Shabab. After journeying for nearly a year — during...
Journalists have called the case one of the most expensive in British history: One Ukrainian businessman demanded US $2 billion from two others in the London High Court in a dispute over one of their home country’s largest iron ore processing operations. The three reached a secret settlement several days before the trial. But reporters found the details of that settlement, which involved two high-value buildings in the heart of London, in the Paradise Papers documents.
London’s Supreme Court.
Read more: Ukrainian Billionaires Exchanged Luxury London Real Estate in Secret Settlement
When the Georgian National Lottery resumes operation next year, it will be owned by two experienced businessmen. Only one of them is nicknamed “The Skull.”
Vasil Bozhkov, nicknamed “The Skull” because of the allegedly unusual shape of his head now one of the co-owners of the Georgian National Lottery. (Credit: Bulphoto)
Read more: New Georgian Lottery Co-Owner Has Bulgarian Crime Links
The Kiton store in Vienna’s Golden Quarter.
A key player in the Azerbaijani Laundromat -- a slush fund and money-laundering scandal that has already led to the resignation of members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe -- has gained a foothold in Vienna’s “Golden Quarter.”
Read more: Azerbaijani Regime Insider Brings Millions to Vienna’s Golden Quarter
The central London apartment where Mihaela Muruianu once lived.
The daughter of a top Moldovan judge lived large in London thanks to 1.6 million lei (US$ 130,000) that was channeled through two companies involved in the Russian Laundromat -- a massive money laundering scheme that pumped billions of dollars through Moldova from Russia.
Read more: Senior Moldovan Judge’s Daughter Lived In Posh London Flat -- With Tainted Money
Corruption is everywhere. An estimated $1 trillion is paid in bribes and another $2.6 trillion is stolen worldwide every year, according to the United Nations. These incredible sums make up five percent of the world’s economy. And they mostly come out of the pockets of the poorest of the more than seven billion inhabitants of our planet.
It’s been almost four years since Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s former president, fled the country after the Euromaidan revolution. But the new government’s investigators have so far been unable to establish how much money his rule has cost the country -- or where it went.
Credit: Pivdenkombank web site
Read more: As Yanukovych Fell, Regime-connected Bank Sent Millions Offshore
If you look closely at the details of a 2014 contract to bring Chinese-manufactured locomotives to South Africa, you can tell that something more than transportation was going on.
Photo: Bob Adams, flickr
Read more: Guptas, Big Banks Linked to South African-Chinese Locomotive Deal
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
“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
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
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