TRACE International, a global anti-bribery organization, awarded the OCCRP a prize for investigative journalism on Wednesday for reporting that exposed a billion dollar corruption scandal involving Azerbaijan’s ruling family and Nordic telecommunications giant TeliaSonera.
Hermitage Capital Management, the company of late Russian whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, has demanded that Lithuanian prosecutors reopen a suspended investigation into the laundering of tens of millions of dollars believed to have been siphoned from the Russian government. But months later, authorities still haven’t moved on new evidence.
Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet - whose reporting had challenged authority from Minsk to Moscow and Kyiv - was killed in an apparent car bomb in the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday.
Belgrade's High Court has accepted prosecutors’ third attempt to indict the brother of slain Montenegrin gangster Branislav Saranovic over an alleged 2013 revenge killing, Serbian OCCRP partner the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) has reported.
The Spanish police released a video last week showing the arrest of the son of the former mayor of Kyiv in connection to a multi-million dollar money laundering ring – contradicting claims by his father that he was free.
Threats against independent journalists are fairly common in Serbia. But a recent barrage of online harassment against OCCRP partner the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) – including death threats – raises serious concerns about the freedom of the press in the country.
A front page of Serbian tabloid Informer attacking KRIK
Spanish police said Tuesday they arrested 11 Russian and Ukrainian citizens who laundered more than € 10 million (US$ 11.1 million) via local property purchases, media reported Tuesday.
Police in Romania announced Wednesday they had carried out raids in a rural mountain town where locals had kidnapped dozens of mentally and physically disabled people, enslaving them for work and forcing them to fight for entertainment.
Croatia’s most famous processed meat empire has publicly refuted charges its scion illegally obtained money intended for the country’s war effort, which was then used to buy state assets at bargain prices.
State prosecutors have indicted a Bosnian man and six associates on allegations they smuggled dozens of firearms from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia and Germany.