OCCRP Names Ousted Syrian Leader Bashar al-Assad as ”Person of the Year” in Organized Crime and Corruption
Long-Serving Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea Receives “Lifetime Non-Achievement Award”
Former Landlord of Bankrupt Steward Health Care Drops U.S. Defamation Case
News
Dec 24, 2024
US and UK Sanction Georgian Officials Over Crackdown on Protesters
News
Dec 20, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Singapore Money Laundering Suspects Spent Lavishly on Dubai Real Estate
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Dec 19, 2024
EU to Investigate TikTok Over Romania’s Cancelled Presidential Elections
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Dec 18, 2024
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Scoop
Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence Spying on Journalists
A file discovered at General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian...
Scoop
Belgian Money Laundering Investigation Overlaps With Ukraine War Profiteering Probe
Belgian prosecutors have seized about $2 million as part of an investigation into Iryna Kut and her diamond company. In...
Investigation
Luxury London Properties Linked to Family of Azerbaijan's President Are Hidden Behind an Offshore Trust
The family and associates of Azerbaijani strongman Ilham Aliyev acquired U.K. real estate worth hundreds of millions of...
Dubai Unlocked
Scoop
The Grandson of Tajikistan's President Bought a Dubai Apartment at Age 9. Where Did the Money Come From?
Leaked property records show Tajikistan’s political elite have a taste for luxury apartments in Dubai. One of them, the...
Scoop
Ransomware Attack on Brazilian Gov’t Exposes ‘Fog’ Cyber-Gang
Justice officials from Brazil and the U.S. are investigating Fog, a new ransomware group that attacked Brazilian government...
Investigation
Top Australian Criminal Target Zhao Thrived in Fiji Despite High-Level Warnings
Fiji’s former prime minister and police chief publicly associated with Zhao Fugang, a China-born businessman and Communist...
Project
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
What do criminals say to each other when they think nobody can hear? The fall of Sky Global — an encrypted communications company that once promised limitless privacy — may give us our best-ever chance to find out.
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
Balkan Criminals Planned Murders Using Encrypted Phones from Canadian Start-Up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific...
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
How a Canadian Company's Encrypted Phones Ended Up in the Hands of Criminals Worldwide
It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure...
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Dubai Unlocked
Dubai Unlocked
Singapore Money Laundering Suspects Invested Huge Sums in Dubai Property
Three people arrested in a raid on an alleged money laundering ring in Singapore invested over $30 million in Dubai real...
Dubai Unlocked
Top Crypto Scammers Managed to Sell Dubai Properties After Being Charged
So-called CryptoQueen Ruja Ignatova and her security adviser, Frank Schneider, liquidated Dubai assets despite being charged...
Dubai Unlocked
What Is 'Dubai Unlocked'? Everything You Need To Know
Frequently asked questions about the global investigation into Dubai property ownership.
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited Through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder
The cases are multiplying across Europe: Young men with pro-Russian views instructed on Telegram to carry out sabotage...
Russian Asset Tracker
Secretive Cyprus-Registered Funds Were Used to Hide Megayachts and Luxury Real Estate Linked to Sanctioned Russian Banker
In Cyprus, a new type of investment fund was marketed to clients as a way to avoid disclosing their ownership of assets. In...
A Murky Cypriot Firm Is Helping Belarus Export Potash — In Breach of EU Sanctions
Belarus' state potash trade is sanctioned by the EU. So why is a company registered in Cyprus being paid millions by the...
Meet Dmitry Mironov, the Enigmatic Putin Aide Managing the Kremlin’s HR Department
As Vladimir Putin tightens his circle of trust, a former secret service officer has emerged as one of his closest aides.
Cyprus Firm Helped Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Move Funds
Cypriot corporate service provider MeritServus helped Konstantin Malofeev, an oligarch sanctioned for his support of...
Beneficial Ownership Data is Critical in the Fight Against Corruption
This Luxembourg Businessman Got Europe's Corporate Registries Shut Down. But Whose Privacy Was He Protecting?
Why did a man who runs a private aircraft company become a central figure in rolling back corporate transparency across the...
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Banking
Iraq’s Dollar Auction: The ‘Monster’ Funneling Billions to Fraudsters and Militants Through the U.S. Federal Reserve
A system set up to channel dollars from Iraqi oil sales to importers has been exploited by money launderers and militant...
The Shadow Investor
The Lies That Kept A Central Asian Money Launderer's Cash Flowing
For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented...
A Fake Bank Was Shut Down in Spain. Now a New One Has Popped Up in the U.K.
In 2017, Spanish authorities cracked down on over two dozen shell companies, masquerading as a bank in Madrid, that were...
Story Killers
Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign
A leaked report sheds light on the source of a mysterious media attack on the Serbian president’s political rival.
Credit Suisse Banked Abramovich Fortune Held in Secret Offshore Companies
Credit Suisse loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to Abramovich’s offshore companies, which used U.S. stocks as...
Suisse Secrets
Kosovo’s Former Ambassador to U.S. Failed to Report Millions in Credit Suisse Account
As a senior public official, Ismaili was required by law to declare his assets, including foreign bank accounts. But he...
Banking News
South Africa’s Justice Minister Scrutinized Over VBS Loan Controversy
News
Aug 29, 2024
Swiss Government Motions for Press Freedom in Country’s Finance Sector
News
Nov 18, 2022
In Nationwide Sweep Against Financial Crime over 200 Arrested in Turkey
News
Nov 18, 2022
Ghana Junior Finance Minister Sacked Over Corruption Accusations
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Nov 17, 2022
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