German, Serbian Authorities Bust €300M Investment Scam
German and Serbian authorities have dismantled a large-scale online investment scam that defrauded victims of at least 300...
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The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
Balkan Criminals Planned Murders Using Encrypted Phones from Canadian Start-Up Sky Global
Sky phones were a favorite tool for criminals to discuss logistics. Now, it turns out that some of Sky’s most prolific...
Serbian Police Nab Contract Killer Behind 2021 Belgrade Assassination
Serbian police said that in cooperation with the European Union law enforcement, they have arrested four members of a...
Death on the Costa del Sol: How the Double Life of a German Police Informant Ended in Tragedy
Investigative files shed new light on the dangerous dealings of a German police informant whose life was cut short by a...
Member of Serbian President’s Inner Circle Partnered With Alleged Drug Trafficker
Over a decade ago, Dejan Stanimirović was the business partner of Nikola Petrović, widely known in Serbia as the “best man”...
Story Killers
Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign
A leaked report sheds light on the source of a mysterious media attack on the Serbian president’s political rival.
Serbian Court Fines OCCRP Partner KRIK for Reporting on Trial
A Serbian court has ruled against the investigative news outlet and OCCRP partner KRIK, in a move that journalists and media...
The Pandora Papers
At Serbia’s “Legalization Secretariat,” Developers Paid Cash to Have Their Construction Violations Excused
The longtime head of the Secretariat stepped down in July, but is now under investigation for allegedly abusing his office....
Turkish Police Detain a Suspected Killer of Montenegrin Mafia Boss
Turkish police said they detained 12 people in Istanbul, including the suspected killer of Montenegro’s Škaljari clan boss,...
Serbian Court Sentences Montenegro’s Mafia Clan Leader in Absentia
A court in Serbia sentenced the leader of one of Montenegro's two most notorious drug-smuggling gangs, the Kavač criminal...
Montenegro Seizes Illegal Cigarettes Worth US$3 Million
Montenegrin authorities seized in the Port of Bar more than 5,000 packages of illegal tobacco products bound for Serbia and...
Dead Body in Paraguay Is Likely Serbian Drug Smuggler
A cutting-edge facial recognition algorithm finds a “strong possibility” that an unidentified man found dead in a car in...