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...
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin wins OCCRP's 2022 Person of the Year award, which singles out those who wreak havoc around the world through organized crime and corruption.
Read more: OCCRP Names Yevgeny Prigozhin 2022 “Person of the Year” in Organized Crime and Corruption
Disgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner personally funded an ethnically divisive disinformation campaign in Trinidad and Tobago designed by an election engineering firm to discourage black Trinidadians from voting.
Read more: Ex-FIFA Executive Jack Warner Financed “Election Engineering” Campaign in Trinidad
Not long after imposing sanctions on wood imports from Russia and Belarus, Europe saw an influx of wood supposedly coming from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Authorities say sanctions-busters are increasingly mislabeling wood as Central Asian so they can keep bringing it in to the EU.
Lawyers for Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich argue he should not be sanctioned because his ties to the Kremlin are weak, but new documents reveal he secretly had a years-long partnership with the Russian government in a forestry venture.
Read more: Abramovich Had Secret Partnership with Kremlin in Major Forestry Company
President Tokayev has vowed to clamp down on the theft of state assets, and billions of dollars have already been recovered. But experts fear that the president’s backroom decisions are leaving the public in the dark — and serving primarily his own interests.
Read more: Kazakhstan's President Vowed to Crack Down on Asset Theft. What’s the Reality?
The tiny Pacific nation of Palau is a key hotspot in the growing rivalry between China and the West. Organized criminals with links to the Chinese Communist Party are trying to find a way in — and many in the local elite have welcomed them.
Read more: Pacific Gambit: Inside the Chinese Communist Party and Triad Push into Palau
Current and former Secret Service, border control, customs, and Coast Guard employees all signed up as members of the right-wing militant group between 2009 and 2015, leaked data shows.
Syria’s licensing of a third mobile operator, Wafa Telecom, looked like another effort by authorities to seize control of the lucrative telecoms sector. But the Assad government may also be using the license to compensate its ally Iran.
Read more: Syria’s Newest Mobile Operator Has A Hidden Link to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
Prosecutors, police, and government officials are investigating dozens of the country’s top makers of high-end musical bows, who are suspected of trafficking protected brazilwood to the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
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