“I’m the boss of the pyramid scammers, right?” the Brazilian ‘Bitcoin Sheik’ boasted in a private video released to media by investigators.

Being a journalist has never been more dangerous, according to the most recent Reporters Without Borders (RSF) annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists, which says that “a record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide.”

When Viktor Bout was at the top of his game, he was the biggest arms dealer in the world, operating an air freight empire supplying everything from flowers to combat helicopters.

Spanish police on Wednesday arrested a key figure in a massive investment fraud network exposed by OCCRP that has defrauded victims around the world of billions of dollars.

A Kurdish journalist in the southeast of Turkey was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly spreading false information, constituting a Turkish court’s first application of its new “disinformation” law.

Mexican cartels and criminal networks headquartered in the European Union (EU) have been collaborating to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to the EU, Europol and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revealed in a joint report Wednesday.

Greek police raided the Athens office of an Israeli company behind the Predator spyware, local media reported, as investigations into a wiretapping scandal that has rocked the country in recent months continue.

The South African High Court ruled Tuesday that NJ Ayuk, one of Equatorial Guinea’s most influential lawyers, did indeed issue defamatory remarks towards OCCRP and journalist Delfin Mocache Massoko with the intent to cause harm.

Seven members of an alleged U.S.-Russian conspiracy were charged with procuring advanced military hardware and technology for Russia’s military, in defiance of international sanctions, to bolster its now 10-month-long invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Tuesday.

A court in Rome is deliberating whether to uphold a ban on the sale of two brands of Camel and Winston cigarettes after OCCRP and its partners revealed last year that they contained more menthol flavoring than legally allowed.