The Quiet Man in Stockholm Who Laundered China’s Oil Money for Iran
With attention focused on Zarrab and his Turkish co-conspirators, another network — operated by a man living in Stockholm —...
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US and Colombia Launch New Anti-Drug Trafficking Plan
The United States and Colombia announced a new plan to combat drug trafficking by helping the economic development of poor...
A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections Surround Beirut Explosion Shipment
Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port on August 4, Lebanese citizens have taken to...
Conflict in Yemen Sees Iranian Arms Trafficked to Somalia
An international organised crime-watchdog has warned that Iranian weapons and ammunition supplied to Houthi insurgents in...
Private U.S. Contractors Part of the ‘Kill Chain’ in East Africa Anti-Terrorist Operations
A Cold War military procurement program, preferred private contractors, and escalating drone strikes in Somalia.
Corruption and Poverty Made West Africa Hot Spot for Piracy
It was 7:40 a.m. when the chief officer of the MV Duke called Captain Ripusad Prasad in his quarters to say that a boat was...
Hundreds of Millions Flow From Russian Ministry Into An Obscure Geneva Organization — And Officials’ Pockets
For years the ICDO, a decades-old international organization based in Switzerland, functioned essentially as a front for the...
A Fishy Business: Shifting Profits Out of Africa
An Icelandic company at the centre of a Namibian bribery scandal may have avoided paying millions in taxes by moving cash —...
UN Warns of Devastating Costs of Pandemic-Related Graft
If governments fail to guard against fraud and bribery in health-care supply chains as they secure essential medicines and...
How a Crew of Romanian Criminals Conquered the World of ATM Skimming
Across the Rio Grande: How Romanians Were Smuggled Into the US to Rob ATMs
Starting in the early 2000s, a Romanian man built an international people-smuggling network that laid the groundwork for a...
Nigeria Traces $9.6 Billion Financial Hit Back to $390,000 in Alleged Bribes
A British Virgin Islands-based firm allegedly paid more than US$390,000 in bribes to land a natural gas processing plant...
NGOs Decry Death Sentences Against Yemen Journalists
More than 150 non-governmental organizations have spoken out against death sentences handed down last month by a Houthi...
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