An investigation by RISE Project, an OCCRP partner, has revealed how an Austrian-based company bought huge volumes of timber from controversial local logging firms over the past two years.

Khadija IsmayilovaAs Azerbaijan prepares to launch the billion-dollar spectacle of the European Games, today marks six months since investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was jailed.

Romania’s president has urged Prime Minister Victor Ponta to resign after prosecutors named Ponta in connection with allegations of corruption.

Ambassador Leach with Zaruhie MedjlumyanOCCRP partner Hetq's reporter Zaruhie Medjlumyan has won a “Media Excellence” prize at the 2015 Universal Rights award ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia, for her professionalism and coverage of the rights of those sentenced to life imprisonment.

Italian police have arrested 44 people suspected of involvement in an underworld scheme that rigged tenders and skimmed off huge sums of money from public works contracts, including tenders aimed at helping a recent influx of refugees to the country.

A prominent human rights activist has claimed that she was detained and sexually abused by Uzbek police after photographing and documenting people involved in the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan.

Suspected Islamic State (IS) recruiter Husein Bilal Bosnic received money from foreign Islamic sources to buy property for poor people in his local community, according to a witness.

Croatian prosecutors have charged the former mayor of the eastern county of Sisak Moslavina for corruption, abuse of power, money laundering, bribery and falsifying official documents that allegedly netted her more than a million euros.

Interpol has put out a red notice on six people linked to the unfolding FIFA bribery scandal, as the organization’s embattled president Sepp Blatter stepped down under intense international pressure.

Former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili will give up his Georgian citizenship to take on an appointment as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, which he called a “front line” against graft in the region.