Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Oligarchs, Crooks, and a Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Deal
Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the...
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Corruptistan: Uzbekistan
In Bed With a Dictator’s Daughter — Again
Even as Swedish telecom TeliaSonera emphatically denied bribing Gulnara Karimova, the company was busy negotiating another...
Biometric Bribery: Inside Semlex’s Global Playbook
Belgian Passport-Maker Paid Bribes to Win Madagascar Contract
Semlex paid one ex-government official thousands of dollars in unexplained fees — and he’s still on their payroll today.
A Journalist’s Undying Legacy
Powerful Slovak Businessman Cleared of Murdering Journalist
Marian Kočner, who was accused of masterminding the killing of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, is cleared of murder.
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
My Day With a Narco-Baron Behind Bars
LIMA, Peru (August 16, 2017) – Standing in front of tall metal doors wrapped in razor wire in the dusty outskirts of Lima,...
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
For Group America, Political Assassination Plots Go Unpunished
Boško Buha, a senior Serbian police official, was walking to his SUV in a restaurant parking lot in June 2002 when the...
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
Zoran Jaksić’s Last Hurrah in Peru
The world got a little smaller on July 17, 2016. That evening, television news reports in Peru and in Serbia were covering...
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
The Hardest-Working Drug Gang You’ve Never Heard of
On a cold winter day in Gdansk, Zoran Jakšić scrambled to fix a problem not of his making.
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
How Group America’s Money Feeds the Balkan Economy
What do drug traffickers do with the mountains of cash they make supplying Europe’s cocaine habit?
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
A Broken Operation in Venice Exposed Group America’s Slovakian Connection
On the night of April 6, 2009, Mladen Miljanić and Braim Sinani were on the road, driving an Opel Astra across the plains of...
GROUP AMERICA: A US-Serbian Drug Gang With Friends In The Shadows
Powerful Serbian-American Drug Traffickers May Have Ties to Intelligence Agencies
Mileta Miljanić, a Bosnian-born U.S. citizen, is a wanted man in Italy and faces arrest if he so much as changes planes...
Holy Rollers: The Religious Leaders Using Churches to Launder Illicit Cash Across the Americas
A Cross Border Investigation Reveals Links Between Churches and Organized Crime.