New evidence collected by OCCRP indicates that two Chinese trawlers were fishing in Sierra Leone’s marine protected areas, where industrial fishing is forbidden for their unique biodiversity and vital role in sustaining the ocean ecosystem.

The U.S. is set to impose sanctions on "any foreign individual or entity" connected to Myanmar's (Burma) jet fuel sector. This move is in response to the brutal airstrikes by the Burmese military regime on its own citizens.

A Honduran court ruled on Monday to keep a mayor in custody as he faces drug trafficking charges. The court also scheduled his preliminary hearing for Thursday.

A U.S. federal grand jury charged Friday the former CEO of a merchant cash advance company with multiple counts of fraud and money laundering, in connection to her alleged role as head of a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than US$190 million.

Spanish police have seized a record-breaking 9.5 tonnes of cocaine concealed inside boxes of bananas that were shipped from Ecuador to the southern port of Algeciras.

He was the fourth of five children, and all of them enrolled at university, although the family could really not afford it. Low on funds in impoverished Nigeria, Chris Maxwell thought it would be good to make a few bucks with online scamming and help himself and his siblings.

The U.S. government indicted two of the three co-founders of Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer that allegedly laundered over US$1 billion for hackers and fraudsters, including cybercriminals from the Lazarus Group, a North Korean state-sponsored organization.

The Bishkek Prosecutor Office has urged a local court to close down Kloop, OCCRP’s partner in Kyrgyzstan, alleging that the news outlet lacks the proper license and has disturbed the public with its reporting.

For almost a year now, police investigators, prosecutors, and intelligence services from nearly a dozen countries have been diligently working to uncover who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that supplied Europe with natural gas from Russia last September.

Two men have pleaded guilty to participating in a transnational tax fraud scheme, in which members of a group of four hacked into computer servers of businesses in the United States, stole personal information of U.S. citizens, and requested income tax refunds.