Sanctions Haven’t Stopped Notorious Serbian Arms Merchant Slobodan Tešić
Despite repeated rounds of sanctions, the notorious arms dealer Slobodan Tešić remains a dominant player in Serbia’s weapons trade. A leaked chat and other...
Despite repeated rounds of sanctions, the notorious arms dealer Slobodan Tešić remains a dominant player in Serbia’s weapons trade. A leaked chat and other...
The Abdukadyr family earned hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to their alliance with corrupt officials in neighboring Kyrgyzstan. Now their trading business is booming in Uzbekistan — where President Mirziyoyev’s government has welcomed them with open arms.
Read more: They Were Accused of Smuggling. Now They’re Partnering With the Uzbek State.
President Mirziyoyev promised reforms and transparency. But among the top foreign investors pouring money into his new Uzbekistan are the Abdukadyrs, a secretive family who made their fortune on bribery and political patronage.
For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented pretexts. Some U.S. bank officers got suspicious — but the transactions continued.
Read more: The Lies That Kept A Central Asian Money Launderer's Cash Flowing
In October 2022, Colombian journalist Rafael Moreno was shot dead. Six months after the assassination, 30 journalists continued his investigations into allegations of wide scale corruption and environmental damage. With new evidence, they revealed serious irregularities that confirmed a system of cronyism in public works contracts and exposed the methods of mining companies that Moreno was investigating.
Read more: Colombian Journalist: Kill Me But You Won’t Silence Me
Cypriot corporate service provider MeritServus helped Konstantin Malofeev, an oligarch sanctioned for his support of Russian-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, transfer debt worth tens of millions of dollars even after he was blacklisted, leaked documents show.
Read more: Cyprus Firm Helped Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Move Funds
OCCRP’s Pacific Editors Aubrey Belford and Dan McGarry will speak about their investigations into organized crime and corruption in the Pacific region in a live OCCRP Discussion on Monday, April 24, 2023.
Leaked documents show how Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, struck several wasteful deals — including one that allowed Belarus to avoid paying for $1.4 billion in oil it received from Venezuela.
In 2006, Muammar Gaddafi set out to invest billions in oil money across the continent, but even a simple project to add a Libyan-owned ferry line to Sierra Leone was undermined by nepotism and corruption. The factional chaos that followed Gaddafi’s fall has meant that nobody ever faced a reckoning.
Read more: How Libya’s Gaddafi-Era Graft Saddled Sierra Leone With a Faulty Ferry
Muammar Gaddafi used Libya’s financial institutions as conduits for graft and nepotism on a huge scale. Rather than bring reform, the country’s civil war led to divisions and rivalries that undermined asset recovery efforts and helped those blamed for Gaddafi-era losses avoid a reckoning.
Over a decade ago, Dejan Stanimirović was the business partner of Nikola Petrović, widely known in Serbia as the “best man” of the president, Aleksandar Vučić. Then he turned up dead in the home of an alleged Colombian drug boss. European police officials told journalists he was known to them as a cocaine trafficker.
Read more: Member of Serbian President’s Inner Circle Partnered With Alleged Drug Trafficker
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