OCCRP Weekly news roundup
Valerie HopkinsSex, drugs, and…rhino horns? Organized crime networks are infamous for trafficking drugs, arms, and humans,...
Valerie HopkinsSex, drugs, and…rhino horns? Organized crime networks are infamous for trafficking drugs, arms, and humans,...
British authorities announced Wednesday 1.3 tons of cocaine from a luxury yacht last May. Meanwhile, Dutch police arrested...
Diplomatic Parking an Indicator of more than Laziness All diplomats take advantage of their immunity, especially when it...
A bloody uprising last week toppled the government in Kyrgyzstan, and opposition leaders have formed an interim government...
International arms dealer Viktor Bout, who’s been in a Thai jail since a US-led sting operation two years ago, faced a new...
Five years of investigations into possible corruption at BAE Systems have finally yielded the first criminal charges – an...
Bobi Tsankov, a controversial journalist and media personality who had recently published articles and a book detailing his...
Six years ago, the UN declared Dec. 9 an annual “International Anti-Corruption Day” as a way to hype its freshly minted...
My weekly crime-and-corruption notes here focus on the former Eastern Bloc, but that’s simply because the region is OCCRP’s...
Anniversaries ending with zeroes tend to prompt a good deal of news coverage, as illustrated by the 20th anniversary of the...
Interpol has promised to share its databases and other information with UN police peacekeepers in an agreement intended to...
Warnings about Eastern European cybercrime that counterfeits cards and drains bank accounts have increased in the past six...