OCCRP reviewed the sales of 30 planes by Lance Zane Ricotta’s companies since 2014, and found evidence that 11 of them were seized, investigated, or found abroad in suspected or confirmed drug cases. Ricotta denied liability for how the aircraft were used, and experts said a loophole in U.S. plane registration rules makes it difficult to trace the real owners.
OCCRP has confirmed that US aid to Fiji is at risk unless the government takes urgent action against the Grace Road Group, a...
Loan documents show two Paraguayan banks loaned tens of millions of dollars to firms owned by Ulisses Rodrigues Teixeira, a...
Documents recovered after the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad show how Syriatel shared client phone data with...
State-owned Romanian energy firm Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA has declared much lower-than-average carbon dioxide...
Shipping containers sent by Noboa Trading Co. have been caught up in huge drug shipments sent from Ecuador to the Balkans....
Documents and first-person accounts show how a hastily organized evacuation by a private charity left hundreds of Ukrainian...
The U.S. and U.K. froze many assets of the “Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization.” But one man sanctioned as an...
In 2021, Abdelhakim Baayo made headlines for becoming the first person to register to run in Libyan presidential elections....
Pravfond, a Russian legal-aid foundation for “compatriots” abroad, has continued to fund people and organizations across the...
For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by...
Last month, more than 30 media outlets reported on a global scam operation based in Tbilisi, prompting Georgian authorities...
Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies,...
Two professional scam call-center operations depended on affiliate marketing firms to supply them with contact details of...
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Professional scammers call upon a global network of service providers to execute their work in a sophisticated, streamlined...
Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies,...
Two professional scam call-center operations depended on affiliate marketing firms to supply them with contact details of...
They called themselves “skameri.” In behind-the-scenes chats, they celebrated bilking victims out of their life savings and...
How many scam operations did reporters reveal? Who leaked the data? What's the evidence these are scams and not legitimate...
An unprecedented leak exposes the inner workings of a global investment-scam industry, where ruthless call center agents...
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