DIY: The New Amphetamine Trade

By Mujtaba Ali

Last summer, when UK police raided an industrial building in the picturesque market town of Newton-le-Willows, about 20 ...

Operative for “Putin’s Chef” Shares Secrets, Vanishes — Then Reappears and

Yevgeny Prigozhin ran the infamous St. Petersburg “troll farm” and other pro-Putin media operations. One of his operatives came clean ...

Report: Russia Laundered Millions via Danske Bank Estonia

The Estonian branch of Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest bank, closed the accounts of several companies in 2013 after realizing ...

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Mexico’s Cartel Wars: Living in a War Zone

Nancy Garcia’s 16-year-old cousin was picking fruit with his father at a ranch in rural Michoacan when armed gunmen upended his and his ...

Court Dismissed: Montenegro Whistleblowers Fear Losing Legal Recourse

Top judge says public officials fired by Parliament have no right to appeal to the courts.

Mining, Murder, and Impunity

A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts. A memorial to Mariano Abarca Roblero. 2010. (Credit: ...

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How a Meeting on a Yacht May Have Changed

A newly revealed photo shows a Kosovar businessman and politician meeting with an alleged organized ...

The Rich and Powerful Cash In From Ukraine’s Green

Ukrainian politicians and their friends stand to reap a windfall from solar and wind energy ...

Questions Linger After Indictment in Slovak Journalist’s Murder

A wealthy Slovak businessman is accused of ordering the murder of a Slovak journalist and ...

Accused of Graft? Change the Rules

It was late November 2016, and Brazil’s largest-ever corruption scandal was finally reaching the country’s political elites.

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Questions Linger After Indictment in Slovak Journalist’s Murder

A wealthy Slovak businessman is accused of ordering the murder of a Slovak journalist and his fiancee last year. But questions remain about what powerful former officials may have known.

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The Aliyevs’ Nest: The Family of Azerbaijan’s President Has Found a Home Near Moscow

The son of Azerbaijan’s president has a previously undiscovered property near Moscow worth tens of millions of dollars.

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Money for Nothing: Putin Friend Sergei Roldugin Enriched by Troika Laundromat

A Russian cellist and childhood friend of Vladimir Putin received at least $69 million from Troika Laundromat companies. He earned $11.6 million from cancellation fees for 16 consecutive stock deals.

Cement's Dirty Business

In “Cement’s Dirty Business,” OCCRP journalists travel across Europe to show how Romania’s $750 million cement industry now runs largely on trash, sometimes smuggled in from foreign countries with little regard for health or safety.

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Death in Vienna

Perhaps one of the most powerful tales of the Troika Laundromat comes from a dead man: a Viennese lawyer who regretted his involvement in the scheme — and whose body turned up in an Austrian forest.

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The Troika Laundromat

Laundromats are complex systems for moving money that allow corrupt politicians, organized crime figures, and wealthy businessmen to secretly invest their ill-gotten millions, launder money, evade taxes, and fulfill other goals.

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The Cocaine Cowboys

Calabrian expat Antonino Vadalà was already a wealthy man with a successful cattle business in Slovakia when he bought his way into the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s most powerful mafia, and opened a new cocaine-trafficking route into southern Europe. Here’s how he did it — and how the cops shut it down.

How Ján and Martina Died

One year ago, a killer snuffed out the lives of an investigative journalist working on one of the biggest stories of his career and the woman he intended to marry. In day-by-day detail, OCCRP outlines how the assassinations transpired and what happened in the aftermath.

Unfinished Lives, Unfinished Justice

One year ago, a former policeman slipped into the home investigative journalist Ján Kuciak shared with his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová, and shot them both at close range, authorities say.

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As South Sudan Seeks Funds for Peace, a Billion Dollar Spending Spree

Mexico’s Cartel Wars: Living in a War Zone

Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia

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