How Tajikistan’s Leading Microlending Organization Allowed a Suspicious Client to Funnel Millions Abroad
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and several other foreign investors own a leading Tajik microlending...
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EBRD Joins Foreign Investor In Hostile Takeover of Tajikistan’s Leading Microfinance Institution, Pushing Out Founders
Imon International, Tajikistan’s most prominent microlender, was built over two decades to help women entrepreneurs. Its...
China Tobacco Goes Global
Illicit Chinese Cigarettes, an Italian Warehouse, and a Mysterious Libyan “Friend”
An Italian group smuggling Chinese cigarettes mentioned a Libyan who helped them. Here's how reporters followed the clues...
China Tobacco Goes Global
Huge Quantities of Chinese Cigarettes Smuggled Into Ukraine
China Tobacco’s factory in Europe is selling hundreds of millions of cigarettes to companies in Ukraine under investigation...
China Tobacco Goes Global
China’s State Tobacco Company is Massive at Home. Now it’s Ready to Take Over the World
China Tobacco is using advertising, investment, and social projects to influence governments and consumers around the world,...
China Tobacco Goes Global
China Tobacco 'Very Discreetly' Becomes Leaf-Buying Powerhouse in Brazil
China is complying with recommendations under a global treaty to decrease the amount of land under tobacco cultivation ––...
China Tobacco Goes Global
A Fake Shipping Container Leads to Chinese Cigarettes — and Italy's Camorra Crime Group
A bust of 17 tons of illicit cigarettes in Italy led back to China Tobacco’s European factory — where an executive was...
China Tobacco Goes Global
Illegal Chinese Cigarettes Flooding Latin America Flow Through Panama
China Tobacco’s factory in Panama was shut down by authorities after its cigarettes kept making their way onto the black...
China Tobacco Goes Global
Debt, Death, and Disease: Brazil’s Tobacco Farmers Struggle
Tobacco farmers in southern Brazil often borrow heavily from banks and large companies, while also risking illness from...
China Tobacco Goes Global
What is China Tobacco?
How is China Tobacco different from other multinational tobacco companies? Who regulates it? And where are its cigarettes...
Greek Captagon Bust Leads to a Criminal Gang and the Port at the Heart of Syria’s Booming New Drug Trade
In late 2018, Greek authorities busted a freighter carrying over $100 million worth of cannabis and the speed-like drug...
Montenegrin Tycoon’s Lawsuit Against Media Highlights a Trail of Controversial Deals
Leaked bank records show transactions between one of Zoran Bećirović’s companies and a firm at the center of a massive money...