A just-concluded pre-trial investigation of Vladimir Romanov, the former owner of Lithuania‘s Ukio bank suspected of looting it for millions of euros, hinged on a key episode detailed in OCCRP’s 2018 account of leaked information in the Paradise Papers.
Authorities in France, Belgium and Israel brought down an international network suspected of having stolen €6 million (US$6.6 million) from dozens of victims by luring them into fake bitcoin and other crypto-currency investments, Europol announced Wednesday.
Mexico’s highest federal court intervened Wednesday to block a Mexico City court’s decision that ordered prominent writer and academic Sergio Aguayo Quezada to pay US$530,000 in damages to a high-ranking Mexican politician he accused of corruption in a newspaper article.
Police raided homes and offices of money laundering suspects across Germany and Belgium Thursday in an attempt to track a money trail flowing from an Azerbaijani laundromat operation to shell companies in the Baltic, the Frankfurt Prosecutor’s Office confirmed.
Austrian cross-country skier and whistleblower Johannes Dürr got a 15-month suspended sentence for doping after he admitted to “serious sports fraud” related to taking performance-enhancing drugs and helping other athletes to do so also, Agence France-Presse announced.
Two Kyrgyz news media outlets, Radio Azattyk and Kloop, along with journalist Ali Toktakunov are standing trial on Wednesday as they face a prolonged lawsuit filed by the Matraimov family for exposing its involvement in a US$700 million money laundering operation.
Airbus announced on its website this week an agreement in principle with French, British and American authorities investigating the giant aviation firm for bribery and corruption.
Israel's attorney general has filed Tuesday an indictment against the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, only hours after he announced that he was withdrawing his immunity bid from a pending indictment in three graft cases against him, the BBC reported.
A lawsuit released Monday seeks to permanently ban Martin Shkreli and associate Kevin Mulleady from the pharmaceutical industry for their role in 2015 in increasing the price of a life-saving drug by more than 4,000 percent.
Spanish and Colombian authorities detained 12 drug trafficking suspects who allegedly used vehicles from their car dealerships, repair shops and caravan parks to move cocaine around and their businesses to launder money, Europol announced on Thursday.