In a stunning reversal, the Court of Justice of the European Union weakened an existing anti-money laundering rule on Tuesday, limiting use of one of the most potent tools against financial secrecy – access to beneficial ownership information.

In a new move to crack down on Russian corruption in Central America, the United States has sanctioned two people and three Guatemalan-based mining companies in cases exposed by OCCRP and Forbidden Stories earlier this year.

A Kyrgyz investigative journalist who has published stories about high-level corruption in the country was apparently deported today, minutes after a court ruled against him.

Cambodian wildlife officials, black market dealers, and executives at a monkey breeding company were charged by U.S. federal prosecutors last week with running an illicit monkey trading scheme that smuggled thousands of endangered wild macaques from Southeast Asia to the U.S. to be used in lab research.

Two Estonian men suspected of masterminding a US$575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering conspiracy were arrested in a joint operation by Estonian police and the FBI on Sunday.

Canada has sanctioned six additional Haitian politicians for allegedly providing financial and operational support to armed groups who threaten Haiti’s national security, Global Affairs Canada told OCCRP Monday.

Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, last week denied that he illegally sold lavish gifts he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2019.

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the French Customs held the 25th annual Task Group Cigarettes Conference last week, gathering European Union (EU) member states and neighboring  countries to focus on joining forces to fight tobacco smuggling and illicit cigarette production.

Algirdas Komskis, the son of Kęstas Komskis, the former deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, has been convicted of embezzlement, fraud and intentional bankruptcy based on an investigation by OCCRP’s Lithuanian member center Siena.

A secretive trading network set up in Lithuania and Singapore a decade ago might have helped a Belarusian power player to dodge international sanctions, the Belarusian opposition claims based on a joint investigation conducted by two OCCRP member centers.