Fueling Secession, Promising Bitcoins: How a Russian Operator Urged Catalonian Leaders to Break With Madrid
Catalonian leaders referred to the man who offered them troops and money to secede from Spain as “Putin’s envoy.” Reporters...
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George Mason University
Abramovich Owned Stake in Company that Won U.S. Gov’t Contracts
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has hit headlines since Russia invaded Ukraine. Billions of his assets have been frozen by...
The Troika Laundromat
Russian Bank Was at Heart of Major Money Laundering Operation
One of the largest-ever leaks of banking records and related documents reveals an $8.8 billion network of offshore companies...
The Troika Laundromat
Vast Offshore Network Moved Billions With Help From Major Russian Bank
One of the largest-ever leaks of banking records and related documents reveals an $8.8 billion network of offshore companies...
The Panama Papers
How the Family that Runs Azerbaijan Built an Empire of Hidden Wealth
Documents peel away three layers of secret ownership in a conglomerate and lead to gold mines and overseas real estate
Hidden in Plain Sight: New York Just Another Island Haven
By Michael Hudson, Ionut Stanescu and Samuel Alder-Bell Lax U.S. rules and real estate industry’s no-questions-asked...
Cybercrime tops security threats list
By the time this is posted, the end-of-the-year top ten list mania, thankfully, will be over. Among the tedious roundups of...
Russian Researcher Arrest
A Russian police official who was researching crime for a US university was arrested last month for alleged abuse of office,...
Organized Crime and Terror Related
Investigators who pieced together the puzzle of the March 2004 Madrid train bombing that killed 191 and injured some 2,000...