Crypto ‘Laundromat’ Tied to Russian Financial Sector and Cocaine Trade - Police
Britain's National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
Georgia’s Security Service Alleges Foreign Plot Amid Anti-Government Protests
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Dec 11, 2024
Kyrgyzstan’s $700 Million Corruption Case Figure Fined for Border Violation
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Dec 10, 2024
Azerbaijan Detains Journalists in Escalating Media Crackdown
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Dec 9, 2024
Europol Backs Takedown of Major Online Fraud Network in Europe
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Dec 7, 2024
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Investigation
Top Australian Criminal Target Zhao Thrived in Fiji Despite High-Level Warnings
Fiji’s former prime minister and police chief publicly associated with Zhao Fugang, a China-born businessman and Communist...
Scoop
Real Estate Deal With Royal Raises Questions About Drug Trafficker Raffaele Imperiale’s Business in Dubai
Imperiale, who lived freely in Dubai for years despite being wanted for drug trafficking in Italy and Spain, was a...
Scoop
Georgian Mayor’s Family Is Behind Secretive Hotel Project in Picturesque Mountain Town
The mayor of Lentekhi, Gia Oniani, awarded a permit to build a hotel to his wife’s company and is still involved in the...
Investigation
‘Tell Me What You Need’: Wiretaps Caught Alleged Toronto Mafia Boss Speaking With Property Developers
Court files indicate that Angelo Figliomeni, alleged boss of the Toronto wing of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia, was in contact...
Scoop
Major Canadian Banks TD and RBC Hold Mortgages for Alleged Toronto Mafia Boss
Angelo Figliomeni was at the center of a media storm when police brought organized crime and money laundering charges...
Investigation
How Europe’s Secondhand Clothes Are Trashing Romania
Europeans who donate old clothes assume they’ll be go to the needy — but they could just as easily end up in an illegal dump...
Investigation
Well-Connected Private Investor Scoops Up Hydropower Rights in Georgia
Businessman Koka Kokolashvili keeps a low profile in Georgia — but he does have family connections to the country’s...
Project
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
What do criminals say to each other when they think nobody can hear? The fall of Sky Global — an encrypted communications company that once promised limitless privacy — may give us our best-ever chance to find out.
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
Balkan Criminals Planned Murders Using Encrypted Phones from Canadian Start-Up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific...
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
How a Canadian Company's Encrypted Phones Ended Up in the Hands of Criminals Worldwide
It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure...
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Dubai Unlocked
Dubai Unlocked
Singapore Money Laundering Suspects Invested Huge Sums in Dubai Property
Three people arrested in a raid on an alleged money laundering ring in Singapore invested over $30 million in Dubai real...
Dubai Unlocked
Top Crypto Scammers Managed to Sell Dubai Properties After Being Charged
So-called CryptoQueen Ruja Ignatova and her security adviser, Frank Schneider, liquidated Dubai assets despite being charged...
Dubai Unlocked
What Is 'Dubai Unlocked'? Everything You Need To Know
Frequently asked questions about the global investigation into Dubai property ownership.
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited Through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder
The cases are multiplying across Europe: Young men with pro-Russian views instructed on Telegram to carry out sabotage...
Russian Asset Tracker
Secretive Cyprus-Registered Funds Were Used to Hide Megayachts and Luxury Real Estate Linked to Sanctioned Russian Banker
In Cyprus, a new type of investment fund was marketed to clients as a way to avoid disclosing their ownership of assets. In...
A Murky Cypriot Firm Is Helping Belarus Export Potash — In Breach of EU Sanctions
Belarus' state potash trade is sanctioned by the EU. So why is a company registered in Cyprus being paid millions by the...
Meet Dmitry Mironov, the Enigmatic Putin Aide Managing the Kremlin’s HR Department
As Vladimir Putin tightens his circle of trust, a former secret service officer has emerged as one of his closest aides.
Cyprus Firm Helped Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Move Funds
Cypriot corporate service provider MeritServus helped Konstantin Malofeev, an oligarch sanctioned for his support of...
Beneficial Ownership Data is Critical in the Fight Against Corruption
This Luxembourg Businessman Got Europe's Corporate Registries Shut Down. But Whose Privacy Was He Protecting?
Why did a man who runs a private aircraft company become a central figure in rolling back corporate transparency across the...
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Banking
Iraq’s Dollar Auction: The ‘Monster’ Funneling Billions to Fraudsters and Militants Through the U.S. Federal Reserve
A system set up to channel dollars from Iraqi oil sales to importers has been exploited by money launderers and militant...
The Shadow Investor
The Lies That Kept A Central Asian Money Launderer's Cash Flowing
For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented...
A Fake Bank Was Shut Down in Spain. Now a New One Has Popped Up in the U.K.
In 2017, Spanish authorities cracked down on over two dozen shell companies, masquerading as a bank in Madrid, that were...
Story Killers
Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign
A leaked report sheds light on the source of a mysterious media attack on the Serbian president’s political rival.
Credit Suisse Banked Abramovich Fortune Held in Secret Offshore Companies
Credit Suisse loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to Abramovich’s offshore companies, which used U.S. stocks as...
Suisse Secrets
Kosovo’s Former Ambassador to U.S. Failed to Report Millions in Credit Suisse Account
As a senior public official, Ismaili was required by law to declare his assets, including foreign bank accounts. But he...
Banking News
South Africa’s Justice Minister Scrutinized Over VBS Loan Controversy
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Aug 29, 2024
Swiss Government Motions for Press Freedom in Country’s Finance Sector
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Nov 18, 2022
In Nationwide Sweep Against Financial Crime over 200 Arrested in Turkey
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Nov 18, 2022
Ghana Junior Finance Minister Sacked Over Corruption Accusations
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Nov 17, 2022
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