Operation Dó-Ré-Mi: The Brazilian Bow Makers Under Investigation For Dealing in Endangered Wood
Prosecutors, police, and government officials are investigating dozens of the country’s top makers of high-end...
All Investigations
How a Crew of Romanian Criminals Conquered the World of ATM Skimming
Mexican Prosecutor Who Led Investigations Into Violent Crimes of Romanian Gang is Accused of Being on Their Payroll
A former member of the Riviera Maya gang was stabbed in Mexico by his onetime comrades. The Mexican prosecutor who...
Fake ‘Rothschild’ Was Chased by Russian Organized Crime When She Took Pictures With Trump at Mar-a-Lago
While Inna Yashchyshyn visited Mar-a-Lago and schmoozed with former President Trump and his inner circle, she was...
Eastern Europe’s Biggest Wood Processor Demanded Free Timber From Suppliers For Years
For more than a decade, HS Timber Group required its Romanian timber suppliers to deliver extra wood for free...
Rwanda Fed False Intelligence to U.S. and Interpol As It Pursued Political Dissidents Abroad
Rwandan dissidents have claimed that President Paul Kagame has used dirty tactics to go after his critics abroad....
Documents Reveal Wagner’s Golden Ties to Sudanese Military Companies
Wagner, the Russian mercenary company owned by the infamous businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, secured and maintained...
Inside South Africa’s Brutal Lion Bone Trade
In the world’s only commercial lion-farming industry, centered in South Africa’s Free State, animals are reared in...
Notorious Nigerien Weapons Broker Lands Secret Arms Deal in Senegal
A contract seen by OCCRP shows how Aboubakar Hima, who allegedly skimmed millions from $240 million in corrupt...
Oliver Stone Documentary About Kazakhstan’s Former Leader Nazarbayev Was Funded by a Nazarbayev Foundation
The documentary was panned for its hagiographic take on Kazakhstan’s longtime dictator. As it turns out, a...
The Pandora Papers
At Serbia’s “Legalization Secretariat,” Developers Paid Cash to Have Their Construction Violations Excused
The longtime head of the Secretariat stepped down in July, but is now under investigation for allegedly abusing...
Suisse Secrets
Taiwanese Tycoon Jailed for Embezzlement May Have Used Girlfriend to Hide Tens of Millions at Credit Suisse
When Sun Daocun died in 2021, he left behind a string of unresolved debts which had enraged a long line of...
Suisse Secrets
The Many Lives — and Credit Suisse Accounts — of Gaddafi-Linked Lobbyist Hassan Tatanaki
Accused of corruption in multiple countries, Libyan oil tycoon Tatanaki went from funding lobbying efforts that...