The Battle for Mineral Resources

Published: July 23, 2013

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Throughout Eastern Europe and the CIS countries, governments have squandered natural resources allowing bribery, corruption and theft to deprive the people of the valuable mineral resources that lie beneath the ground. OCCRP looked at one bribery case to understand how this is being done.

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Stories

The Sooty Roots of the Business

In the 1990s Copșa Mică, a small Romanian town in the heart of Transylvania, was Europe’s most polluted city, thanks to two...

Mineco had Troubled History

Authorities in Romania and Serbia say a regional conglomerate is behind the collapse of a large privatized company in...

A Classified Mining Business

Seven months after Serbian and Romanian businessmen from the Swiss company Mineco AG tried to bribe a Romanian judge to win...

Bribing a Brother

As do around five million other people worldwide, Judge Cătălin Nicolae Șerban of Romania enjoys the fellowship and business...

Mineco to OCCRP

Mineco responded to OCCRP after the series ran. In the interest of fairness, OCCRP is providing Mineco's response. OCCRP...