South Pacific Ponzi Scam “King” Noah Musingku Dies: After defrauding victims of tens of millions in 1990s pyramid scheme, Noah Musingku spent decades ruling an ...
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Albanian PM Offers Dialogue Amid Crackdown on Violent Protests: As student-led demonstrations enter their second week, Prime Minister Edi Rama calls for ...
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Vučić Rejects Russia Sanctions, Blames Foreign Powers for Protests
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The Portuguese Football Federations said its sponsorship deal with China’s Changan Automobile went through a “tight” compliance process ... Show more
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Tens of millions of dollars that the London-listed iron ore giant Ferrexpo donated to a Ukrainian charity were not used for their intended purpose ... Show more
OCCRP’s Person of the Year is back! Nominate an individual who has done the most to promote and empower organized crime and corruption in a country, region ... Show more
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Kazakh President’s Grandnephew Donates Sport University to State Following Investigative Report
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Instead of Helping Ukraine’s Poor, Ferrexpo’s Charitable Donations Flowed to Companies Associated With Its Then-CEO
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Carlos Barragán, author of “The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers,” immersed himself in the lives of four ... Show more
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A 23-Year-Old Kazakh Owns Two New State-Backed Universities. He’s the President’s Great-Nephew.
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Scammers in Timor-Leste Go Straight Back to Work After Being Busted, Police Say: Without cyberfraud laws, police in tiny Southeast Asian country are struggling ...
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UK Freezes £30 Million Mansion Linked to Alleged Senior Prince Group Associate: British authorities target central London mansion owned by Hu Xiaowei ...
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16 October 2017, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally killed by a car bomb just meters from her home. She was 53 years old ... Show more
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Interpol Operation Nets 95 Arrests for Child Abuse
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Chaos in Tirana: Violent Student Protests Surge: Tens of thousands of students join the “Flamingo Revolution,” escalating a months-long environmental and ...
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Jaguar Trafficking in Latin America Persists Through Bone Paste and Pet Smuggling
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The Maldives Plans to Offer Residency to the World’s Ultra Rich – And Create Islands From Scratch to Do It
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Five Arrested in 1 Million Euro Fraud Against NATO
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Convicted Belgian Cocaine Boss Poured Millions Into Luxury Dubai Properties: A Belgian drug lord spent millions of dollars investing in luxury real estate in ...
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Russia Detains Japanese Journalist on Espionage Charges
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JUST OUT: 🔴How Deloitte in Cyprus Helped Abramovich Firms Rewrite Financial History
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🔴How Deloitte in Cyprus Helped Abramovich Firms Rewrite Financial History
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🔴How Deloitte in Cyprus Helped Abramovich Firms Rewrite Financial History
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U.S. regulators imposed more than $1.21 billion in penalties on Bank of America over failures in its anti-money laundering controls and apparent sanctions ... Show more
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Hackers Turn French Supermarket Refrigerators Into Furnaces: A nationwide cyberattack exploited vulnerable remote controllers to force freezers to 50°C ...
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Deloitte’s Cyprus Office Helped Abramovich Firms Relocate Billions in Assets in Apparent Bid to Sidestep Tax and Transparency
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The United Kingdom has sanctioned a Dutch businessman and his Turkish company, nearly four months after an investigation by The Kyiv Independent and IrpiMedia ... Show more
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🔵 NEW INVESTIGATION: A trove of emails shows that Deloitte Cyprus helped firms beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich attempt to skirt tax and disclosure ... Show more
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Considered one of the world’s most oppressive countries, Turkmenistan has long silenced critics at home. A leaked arrest warrant list reveals how the regime ... Show more
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EU Blacklists Nearly 1,600 in Russian Defense Firms and Executives: The EU’s largest-ever round of sanctions listings targets key suppliers of components used in ...
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A Chinese Auto Giant Sponsors Portugal's National Football Team. Its Trucks Are Used by Russia to Attack Ukraine.
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🔵EXCLUSIVE: Leaked files containing years’ worth of email correspondence and financial records show how Deloitte Cyprus worked with other firms managing Roman ... Show more
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Fiji Criticized in U.S. Trafficking Report Over Failure to Tackle Grace Road Cult
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Croatia Expands Probe Into Alleged Multi-Million-Euro Toxic Waste Scheme: Anti-corruption authorities arrested five more suspects connected to an alleged ...
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The Hungarian political advertising agency Megafon received about $12 million from a construction company owned by a friend of former Prime Minister Viktor ... Show more
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Montenegro Arrests then Expels Russian 'Rybar' Network Leader, Associates
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Lithuanian Minister Condemns Intimidation Campaign against Investigative Reporters
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🔵We’re looking for a new colleague to join our editorial team!
🇲🇩The OCCRP Regional Editor for Moldova will be responsible for leading and coordinating local ... Show more
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French authorities have recorded 77 violent incidents targeting cryptocurrency holders so far in 2026, surpassing the total for all of last year ... Show more
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Following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, IKEA pulled out of Russia, as well as Belarus where it had sourced some furniture ... Show more
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JUST OUT: 🔴 A Secret UAE Passport and $7 Million in Dubai Property
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🔴 A Secret UAE Passport and $7 Million in Dubai Property
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🔴 A Secret UAE Passport and $7 Million in Dubai Property
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Nearly 50 Arrested as Police Target Western Balkan Drug Network: European authorities have dismantled an international drug ring that hid contraband inside ...
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Georgia Scraps Offshore Intermediary in Azerbaijani Power Imports: Tbilisi eliminates secretive offshore intermediaries in power imports from Azerbaijan ...
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Police Say Scam Center Busted in PNG Had Moved from Cambodia: Local police believe a suspected cyber fraud ring dismantled in Papua New Guinea last month ...
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Azerbaijan Denies Link to Espionage Case Involving Former German Spy Chief: Baku rejects claims that former BND chief August Hanning leaked classified secrets to ...
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U.S. Designates China-Born Businessman in Fiji for "Significant Corruption"
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OCCRP regional partner Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (@ARIJNetwork ) is hosting its 19th Annual Forum from Dec. 4–6 in Amman, Jordan ... Show more
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🇺🇿 NEW INVESTIGATION: Leaked records show the Uzbek leader’s son-in-law, Otabek Umarov, covertly acquired Emirati citizenship – an explicit legal breach of his ... Show more
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Montenegro Moves to Seize Vast Real Estate Empire of Fugitive Crime Boss: Montenegrin prosecutors are seeking the permanent confiscation of over 54 ...
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The Uzbek President’s Son-In-Law Secretly Acquired a UAE Passport While Serving as a Top Security Chief
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Ex-Ukrainian Lawmaker Sent to Trial Over $1.3 Million Fraud Scheme: Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies have sent a long-running $1.3 million alleged embezzlement ...
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Cocaine Boatmen Are Being Blown Up By US Airstrikes, But The Drugs Keep Flowing From Colombia
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Prosecution of Tren de Aragua Accused Mastermind Deemed Complex Case: Accused Venezuelan cybercriminal Anibal Alexander Canelón Aguirre will remain behind bars ...
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OCCRP Europe Editor Antonio Baquero Iglesias @antoniobaqueroi has been named Prix Europa - Media Competition for all over Europe’s European Journalist of the Year 2026 ... Show more
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EU Froze Sierra Leone Aid for Harboring Alleged Drug Kingpin, Netherlands Says: Brussels has frozen roughly $20 million in aid to Sierra Leone's 2026 budget ...
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Amnesty Report Documents Morocco's Sustained Spyware Campaign Against Civil Society
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Raids Across Europe Target Far-Right Network Accused of Producing Neo-Nazi Music: Authorities searched premises across Germany, the Czech Republic, Estonia ...
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U.K. Sanctions Four Georgians Over Occupied Ukraine Visit: The new sanctions target political figures and commentators, including the brother-in-law of Tbilisi’s ...
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Leaked Warrant List Reveals How Turkmenistan Targets Critics Abroad: Considered one of the world’s most oppressive countries, Turkmenistan has long silenced ...
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Nain Pérez, known as Bendito Menor" (“Little Blessing”), turned his life as an illegal armed-group commander into social media content that resonated in ... Show more
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Guns, Camouflage, and Facebook: How Colombia’s Biggest ‘Narcoinfluencer’ Weaponized Social Media
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Fiji Overhauls Evidence Security After 52 Kilos of Cocaine Vanish from Court: More than 50 kilograms of cocaine tied to two major criminal trials vanished from ...
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Balázs Hankó, a former culture minister under Viktor Orbán, was ordered held in pretrial detention over allegations he funneled tens of millions in state ... Show more
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the first cybercriminal on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, accusing the Venezuelan hacker of developing malware ... Show more
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EPPO Indicts Two Polish Nationals in €100 Million Electronics VAT Fraud Scheme
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JUST OUT: 🔴 Rare leak reveals how Turkmenistan targets critics in Europe
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🔴 Rare leak reveals how Turkmenistan targets critics in Europe
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🔴 Rare leak reveals how Turkmenistan targets critics in Europe
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OCCRP Co-Founder Paul Radu will speak on a W Live panel examining how coordinated digital attacks, censorship, and disinformation threaten critical voices ... Show more
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Lithuanian Mayor Found Guilty in Expense Fraud Case
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1 day left to join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business ... Show more
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Experts say lawlessness in Venezuelan gold mining areas makes it hard to meet U.S. standards for import. International commodities trader Trafigura told OCCRP ... Show more
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This #WorldNewsDay , we’re highlighting the most important tool powering our work: human journalists. But there are no journalists without readers — and journalism ... Show more
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This year commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby announced it was filing for bankruptcy. Surrogates around the world were left unsupported and unpaid ... Show more
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When commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy, hopeful parents and pregnant surrogates were thrown into chaos ... Show more
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Tens of millions of dollars that the London-listed iron ore giant Ferrexpo donated to a Ukrainian charity were not used for their intended purpose ... Show more
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🔵Join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business with Leila Nazgül ... Show more
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🇨🇴 Naim Pérez, known as Bendito Menor" (“Little Blessing”), turned his life as an illegal armed-group commander into social media content that resonated ... Show more