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OCCRP25 Aug 2026
Reported by Almost 40 years after it descended into a devastating civil war, the autonomous region of Bougainville is on the cusp of achieving independence from Papua New Guinea.
OCCRP25 Aug 2026
Reported by Kazakhstan’s first election to a new unicameral Parliament on Sunday gave a commanding victory to the newly formed, pro-presidential Adilet, or “Justice,” party, in a vote that...
OCCRP24 Aug 2026
Reported by Europol is warning of an alarming shift in museum heists across Europe, as criminal networks abandon traditional stealth in favor of brute force and extreme violence, according to a...
OCCRP24 Aug 2026
Reported by A Moscow-funded cultural center in Minsk has operated as an ideological influence hub for the Kremlin, using hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian state funds to promote the...
OCCRP20 Aug 2026
Reported by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed senior aide Iryna Mudra on the same day she said anti-corruption investigators had notified her of suspicion in a case involving the...
OCCRP19 Aug 2026
Reported by Audio recordings of police interrogations played to a Maltese jury this week revealed that Yorgen Fenech, the businessman on trial for the 2017 car bomb assassination of investigative...
OCCRP18 Aug 2026
Reported by Iran’s parliament has approved the general framework of a bill that would criminalize speaking to or sharing data with foreign media outlets deemed "hostile."
OCCRP18 Aug 2026
Reported by As the day draws to a close in Bubaque, a remote island in Guinea-Bissau, fishermen are arriving with their day’s catch, pulling canoes onto a muddy bank teeming with crabs.
OCCRP18 Aug 2026
Reported by Federal prosecutors in Georgia have unsealed a 25-count indictment against an American man accused of orchestrating a $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands...
OCCRP17 Aug 2026
Reported by Fiji handed over an American citizen suspected of involvement in multi-million-dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes across the United States that promised participants returns as high as...
OCCRP17 Aug 2026
Reported by In what appears to be the latest escalation of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign launched by Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, federal authorities have arrested the...
OCCRP13 Aug 2026
Reported by A former Brooklyn bank manager was sentenced to 18 months in prison for helping an international criminal syndicate launder millions of dollars derived from a sprawling $10.6 billion...
OCCRP13 Aug 2026
Reported by After OCCRP and partners published an investigation in March exposing how Europe’s largest alumina refinery was feeding into a supply chain linked to Russian weapons manufacturers, the...
OCCRP13 Aug 2026
Reported by Secret audio recordings captured on a device hidden in a sock, along with text messages presented in a Maltese courtroom, laid bare the mechanics behind the 2017 assassination of...
OCCRP12 Aug 2026
Reported by Just five days before a whistleblower who exposed a sprawling illegal gambling network was gunned down in the Netherlands, police briefly detained a key suspect in the killing after...
OCCRP12 Aug 2026
Reported by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi signaled this week that all corrupt officials — no matter how powerful — would face justice, as his high profile anti-graft campaign saw arrest...
OCCRP11 Aug 2026
Reported by A Lebanese judge has issued new charges against former central bank governor Riad Salame and a former commercial banker over allegations of financial crimes, including embezzlement...
OCCRPby OCCRP11 Aug 2026
Algerian authorities have arrested an alleged leader of the ‘DZ Mafia,’ an organized crime syndicate linked to a wave of drug violence in France.
OCCRPby Also published by our partner Shteg org Albania; In Albanian11 Aug 2026
Reported by Last September, Albania made headlines around the world when it introduced the world’s first-ever “AI minister.” Diella, which means “Sun” in Albanian, was a chatbot that had been...
OCCRP10 Aug 2026
Reported by Alleged Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan was extradited from the United Arab Emirates to Ireland on Sunday and charged with directing the activities of a criminal organization.
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