Ghana Arrests Three for Allegedly Aiding Dutch Fugitive Drug Lord Jos Leijdekkers
OCCRP·24d ago
Reported by Authorities in Ghana have arrested three men suspected of operating on behalf of Joseph “Chubby Jos” Leijdekkers, one of Europe’s most wanted cocaine kingpins, following a massive drug...
Two Shot, Several Arrested in Clashes Over Papua New Guinea Mine
OCCRP·24d ago
Reported by At least two people were shot and several arrested in the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville on Sunday after unknown people set fire to equipment belonging to an Indian company...
Jailed Editor, Closed Outlet: The Rapid Demise of Kazakhstan’s Top Independent News Site
OCCRP·24d ago
Reported by Orda.kz, one of Kazakhstan’s leading independent news outlets, ceased publication a month after an Almaty court sentenced its editor-in-chief to eight years in prison.
Inside the Collapse of a Surrogacy Agency That Cost Surrogates and Hopeful Parents Their Dreams and Money
OCCRPby Ambra Montanari, Beatrice Petrella, Mariia Horban (NGL.media), Kevin G. Hall (OCCRP), Xhesika Tollia (Shteg.org), Kelly Bloss (OCCRP)·27d ago
The promise was a seamless journey towards building a family. Advertising services across Ukraine, Albania, Georgia, Cyprus, and Mexico, the commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby...
Ousted Bangladesh PM's Daughter Steps Down as WHO Regional Chief after Fraud Probe
OCCRP·28d ago
Reported by Saima Wazed, the daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, resigned on Wednesday as the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia regional director following...
Philippine Ex-Speaker Arrested in $118M Plunder Case
OCCRP·8 Sept 2026
Reported by Former Philippine House Speaker Martin Romualdez, a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was arrested Monday after the country’s anti-graft court issued a warrant in a...
Spanish Police Dismantle 'Dubai Bank' Narco-Network, Arrest 21
OCCRPby OCCRP·8 Sept 2026
Spanish authorities dismantled an international cocaine and money laundering network tied to a shadow financial system known as the "Dubai Bank," arresting 21 people worldwide and identifying 20...
Murder For Hire: Details Emerge About Alleged Cross-Border Plot to Kill Twin Brothers in Cyprus
OCCRP·8 Sept 2026
Reported by On the evening of August 10, a person using the handle “Sponge Jobb” posted a call for a hitman to a group on the Signal messaging app.
Police Tapes Show Malta Businessman Acquitted of Journalist's Murder Said He Initially Approved the Plot
OCCRPby OCCRP·7 Sept 2026
The Times of Malta has released the full recordings of businessman Yorgen Fenech’s 2019 police interrogations in which he states that he gave the "OK" to the plot to murder investigative journalist...
Hungarian Media Tycoon’s Firm Formed Dubai Subsidiary While Under Investigation at Home
OCCRPby Also published by our partner; In·7 Sept 2026
Reported by Hungarian media tycoon Gyula Balásy broke down in tears in a May television interview, stating authorities had frozen the accounts of his companies, which had received lucrative public...
Lack of Oversight Fuels Power Sector Corruption, Iraqi Lawmaker Says
OCCRP·4 Sept 2026
Reported by An Iraqi lawmaker has blamed a systemic lack of public procurement oversight for widespread corruption in the country's electricity contracts, revealing that parliament is drafting new...
Businessman Acquitted of Commissioning Murder of Maltese Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
OCCRP·2 Sept 2026
Reported by Nine years after investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb outside her home in Malta, businessman Yorgen Fenech has been found not guilty of complicity...
Ukraine Presidential Chief Responds to Alleged Laundering Role
OCCRP·2 Sept 2026
Reported by The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, has said courts should determine the significance of recordings that have raised questions about his involvement in an alleged $3.3 million...
Q&A: What Has Emerged From the Trial of a Businessman Charged in the Murder of a Maltese Journalist?
OCCRPby OCCRP·1 Sept 2026
OCCRP: Daphne Caruana Galizia is said to have coined a phrase that has been picked up by anti-corruption activists: “Malta is not a normal country."
Alleged Narco-Terrorist Moves to Toss U.S. Indictment on Jurisdictional Grounds
OCCRP·28 Aug 2026
Reported by Attorneys for the accused South American drug kingpin Sebastián Marset have filed motions to dismiss all drug trafficking, money laundering, and narco-terrorism charges against him...
Slovak Police Foil Possible Napalm Attack on Factory Producing Drones for Ukraine
OCCRP·28 Aug 2026
Reported by Officers from ÚBOK—Slovakia’s Office for the Fight Against Organized Crime—thwarted a potential arson attack on the Skyeton factory near Prešov, which manufactures unmanned systems for...
OCCRP Denounces Police Search of Solomon Islands Reporter
OCCRP·27 Aug 2026
Reported by OCCRP has strongly condemned the Solomon Island police for questioning one of the network’s member center journalists and searching her office in an effort to identify her government...
‘I Had No Involvement. Zero.’: Accused Mastermind Denies Killing Maltese Journalist
OCCRP·26 Aug 2026
Reported by The Maltese businessman accused of commissioning the 2017 car-bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia took the stand to adamantly deny ordering her death...
Armenian Court Orders Son of Ex-President Held in Sweeping Graft Probe
OCCRP·26 Aug 2026
Reported by A court in Yerevan ordered the eldest son of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan held in pretrial detention on Wednesday, expanding a sweeping corruption investigation that has...
Designed for Impact: The Next Evolution of OCCRP’s Website
OCCRP·26 Aug 2026
Welcome to the new OCCRP.org. Here’s what’s changed on our site — and how we hope it will better serve you.
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