How Europe’s Secondhand Clothes Are Trashing Romania
Europeans who donate old clothes assume they’ll be go to the needy — but they could just as easily end up in an illegal dump...
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Well-Connected Private Investor Scoops Up Hydropower Rights in Georgia
Businessman Koka Kokolashvili keeps a low profile in Georgia — but he does have family connections to the country’s...
Armenia’s Former Deputy PM Oversaw Project That Benefited His Family Company
Armenia’s former deputy prime minister, Tigran Avinyan, was swept to power by the country’s “Velvet Revolution” in 2018. His...
Luxembourg Bank 'Central' to Purchase of High-End British Real Estate with Embezzled Azerbaijan Funds, U.K. Police Say
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency successfully argued in a High Court case in London that accounts at the Banque...
Know Your Host: Why It Matters That Azerbaijan Is Hosting the COP29 Climate Summit
‘Official Partners’ of Azerbaijan’s COP29 Climate Summit Linked To Ruling Aliyev Family and Their Inner Circle
Whether it’s Silk Way West Airlines, the PASHA Holding conglomerate, or fabric company GILTEX — everywhere this year’s...
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
Balkan Criminals Planned Murders Using Encrypted Phones from Canadian Start-Up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific...
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
How a Canadian Company's Encrypted Phones Ended Up in the Hands of Criminals Worldwide
It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure...
As Bribery Probe Unfolded, Airbus Kept in Touch With Middleman on Controversial Kuwait Helicopters Deal
Senior Airbus executives corresponded with an intermediary for controversial helicopter deals in Kuwait after the European...
How Private Equity and an Ambitious Landlord Put Steward Health Care on Life Support
Nearly 300,000 internal documents leaked from Steward Health Care to OCCRP show how a private equity firm, real estate...
Iraq’s Dollar Auction: The ‘Monster’ Funneling Billions to Fraudsters and Militants Through the U.S. Federal Reserve
A system set up to channel dollars from Iraqi oil sales to importers has been exploited by money launderers and militant...
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited Through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder
The cases are multiplying across Europe: Young men with pro-Russian views instructed on Telegram to carry out sabotage...