Police Say Scam Center Busted in PNG Had Moved from Cambodia
OCCRP·8h ago
Reported by A suspected online scam operation that was raided by police in Papua New Guinea last month is believed to have relocated to the Pacific island country in response to a crackdown on...
U.S. Designates China-Born Businessman in Fiji for "Significant Corruption"
OCCRP·8h ago
Reported by The U.S. State Department announced Thursday it had designated for “significant corruption” Zhao Fugang, a Chinese Communist Party-backed businessman in Fiji that OCCRP has previously...
The Uzbek President’s Son-In-Law Secretly Acquired a UAE Passport While Serving as a Top Security Chief
OCCRPby OCCRP and Radio Ozodlik·1d ago
At the 2023 UN climate change conference in Dubai Otabek Umarov watched in the wings as his boss, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, met with his United Arab Emirates (UAE) counterpart.
Ex-Ukrainian Lawmaker Sent to Trial Over $1.3 Million Fraud Scheme
OCCRP·2d ago
Reported by Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities have sent a case to trial charging former lawmaker Heorhii Lohvynskyi and five others with misappropriating 54.18 million hryvnias (about $1.3...
Montenegro Moves to Seize Vast Real Estate Empire of Fugitive Crime Boss
OCCRPby OCCRP·2d ago
Authorities in Montenegro might not be able to catch the country's most notorious fugitive crime boss, but they are moving to dismantle his financial empire.
Cocaine Boatmen Are Being Blown Up By US Airstrikes, But The Drugs Keep Flowing From Colombia
OCCRP·3d ago
That has left the work of identifying these men to local communities and journalists, such as a consortium led by the Latin American investigative outlet CLIP that was able to collect the names, or...
Prosecution of Tren de Aragua Accused Mastermind Deemed Complex Case
OCCRP·3d ago
Reported by A suspected cybercriminal who allegedly bankrolled the notorious Tren de Aragua gang through a multimillion-dollar ATM fraud scheme was arrested and will remain behind bars to face a...
Leaked Video of Uruguayan Kingpin Triggers Mass Arrests Across Bolivian Justice System
OCCRP·6d ago
Reported by Even from inside an American prison cell, the Uruguayan drug kingpin Sebastián Marset managed to shatter the highest echelons of Bolivian justice this week.
EU Froze Sierra Leone Aid for Harboring Alleged Drug Kingpin, Netherlands Says
OCCRPby Ingrid Gercama (OCCRP)·6d ago
The European Commission has suspended nearly $20 million in aid to Sierra Leone’s 2026 budget due to the West African country’s harboring one of Europe's most wanted fugitives, alleged cocaine...
Amnesty Report Documents Morocco's Sustained Spyware Campaign Against Civil Society
OCCRPby OCCRP·7d ago
Amnesty International has released a new report showing how, despite official denials, Moroccan authorities used surveillance spyware against civil society between 2017 and 2021, and possibly...
U.K. Sanctions Four Georgians Over Occupied Ukraine Visit
OCCRPby Monitori·7d ago
The U.K. has sanctioned four Georgians—including the brother-in-law of Tbilisi’s mayor—for “legitimising Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory” after they met with the head of a Russian-backed...
Ex-Hungarian Minister Detained in $53 Million Graft Probe
OCCRP·7d ago
Reported by Black-masked law enforcement officers escorted Balázs Hankó, a former Hungarian culture minister, into a district court on Thursday, where a judge ordered him held in pretrial detention...
Raids Across Europe Target Far-Right Network Accused of Producing Neo-Nazi Music
OCCRPby Simon Q·7d ago
Reported by Authorities in five European countries carried out coordinated searches on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a suspected far-right criminal organization accused of producing...
Leaked Warrant List Reveals How Turkmenistan Targets Critics Abroad
OCCRPby Also published by our partner Turkmen news Turkmenistan; In Russian·7d ago
But Annayev and other activists soon discovered they were not safe in Turkey where authorities began detaining people who did not have valid documentation to stay in the country.
The US Blacklists Alleged Venezuelan Cyber Crime Mastermind
OCCRP·7d ago
Reported by The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday announced it had placed on a special blacklist Aníbal Alexander Canelón Aguirre— a Venezuelan who appears on the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted"...
Fiji Overhauls Evidence Security After 52 Kilos of Cocaine Vanish from Court
OCCRP·8d ago
Reported by Fiji’s police chief has ordered the immediate transfer of all illicit drugs and cash to highly secure police vaults after officials confirmed Wednesday that 52.4 kilograms of cocaine...
Trafigura Bought Venezuelan Gold in ‘Historic’ US Deal in March. It’s Still in Storage.
OCCRP·9d ago
Reported by Six months after the U.S. government announced it would begin gold imports from Venezuela following years of sanctions prevented the trade, the first major tranche of gold from the deal...
Former Anti-Corruption Official Among Two Iraqi Lawmakers Jailed for Illicit Enrichment
OCCRP·14d ago
Reported by Iraq's Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court has sentenced two lawmakers to seven years in prison each for illicit enrichment, tying their hidden wealth to an ongoing corruption probe...
US Charges Tech CEO, Russian Over Hidden Ownership
OCCRP·14d ago
Reported by U.S. authorities have charged the CEO of a digital forensics company and a Russian national with allegedly concealing the firm's Russian ownership and the origins of software sold to...
Guns, Camouflage, and Facebook: How Colombia’s Biggest ‘Narcoinfluencer’ Weaponized Social Media
OCCRP·14d ago
In a widely circulated photograph, the outlaw was pictured on a motorcycle with Bebecita riding pillion, both seeming to sport white T-shirts that read “ANTI-ABELARDO.” “This reality show had to...
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