The Romanian branch of hypermarket chain Hornbach has announced it is severing its relationship with Austrian timber giant Holzindustrie Schweighofer, following an OCCRP investigation implicating the company in illegal logging.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde was convicted of negligence by French court on Monday but will not face any punishment or lose her job at the head of the international financial institution.
Gunfire broke out in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday amid the continuing refusal of long-reigning President Joseph Kabila to step down at the end of his second term.
A series of investigative reports by OCCRP has led to regulators in Ukraine and Latvia taking steps to rein in the use of Baltic banks to launder the proceeds of corruption.
A Macedonian court on Friday rejected a wiretapped conversation as evidence in the trial of 14 people, including former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, OCCRP partner Nova TV reported.
A Beijing Court sentenced the wife of a former Chinese official to three years in prison on Thursday for accepting bribes from vaccine manufacturers, in a corruption case that follows on the heels of a nationwide scandal over vaccines.
The billionaire owner of a Russian steel company and two basketball teams has been detained in Cyprus on charges of being involved in an alleged US $65 million fraud, local media reported Thursday.
An Italian gambling magnate known as “the king of slots” was arrested on Tuesday on the Dutch Caribbean half-island of Sint Maarten for his alleged involvement in an offshore tax evasion scheme, Italy’s Financial Guard said.
The party of long-reigning Gambian President Yahya Jammeh officially reversed course Tuesday on a pledge by the strongman to accept the results of an election that ejected him from power in early December.
Italian police arrested nearly two dozen alleged members of the country’s Mafia on Tuesday, accusing them of conspiring to rig a local election in the southern city of Bari, the country’s gendarmerie said.