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🏆OCCRP’s 2024 Corrupt Person of the Year is … Bashar al-Assad. The ousted Syrian president turned Syria into a narco-state, financing his authoritarian regime through an array of organized crime, including the production and trafficking of Captagon, an addictive street drug.

🏆OCCRP’s 2024 Corrupt Person of the Year is … Bashar al-Assad. The ousted Syrian president turned Syria into a narco-state, financing his authoritarian regime through an array of organized crime, including the production and trafficking of Captagon, an addictive street drug.

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NEW: Our 2023 Corrupt Person of the Year isn’t a domineering dictator — she’s one of the many dry bureaucrats helping to derail democracy. Step forward María Consuelo Porras, Guatemala’s attorney general and protector of the political elite.

NEW: Our 2023 Corrupt Person of the Year isn’t a domineering dictator — she’s one of the many dry bureaucrats helping to derail democracy. Step forward María Consuelo Porras, Guatemala’s attorney general and protector of the political elite.

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Our panel of expert judges has decided. Who did they select for the Person of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption? Watch this space….

Our panel of expert judges has decided. Who did they select for the Person of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption? Watch this space….

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A Romanian businesswoman thought she was helping Dubai's Crown Prince invest £200 million in a humanitarian foundation. She wasn't. By the time she discovered the truth, she'd already sent $2.5 million to a Nigerian scammer — a man who'd spent years perfecting his royal impersonation, complete with fake advisers who later warned her that the supposed lover was using African “juju and voodoo” to fool her.

A Romanian businesswoman thought she was helping Dubai's Crown Prince invest £200 million in a humanitarian foundation. She wasn't. By the time she discovered the truth, she'd already sent $2.5 million to a Nigerian scammer — a man who'd spent years perfecting his royal impersonation, complete with fake advisers who later warned her that the supposed lover was using African “juju and voodoo” to fool her.

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🇭🇺Our Hungarian member center, direkt36, published stories this week that have shaken the country ahead of upcoming elections. They reported from inside the covert operation against the opposition party threatening Viktor Orbán’s rule and revealed how secret services tried to sabotage any investigation into it. We spoke with Zsuzsanna Wirth and András Pethő — our colleagues who broke what politicians are calling #Hungary’s Watergate.

🇭🇺Our Hungarian member center, direkt36, published stories this week that have shaken the country ahead of upcoming elections. They reported from inside the covert operation against the opposition party threatening Viktor Orbán’s rule and revealed how secret services tried to sabotage any investigation into it. We spoke with Zsuzsanna Wirth and András Pethő — our colleagues who broke what politicians are calling #Hungary’s Watergate.

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42,212 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

40 media outlets representing 23 countries. 5 terabytes of leaked emails from the Colombian prosecutor’s office. The biggest investigation into organized crime originating from Latin America. #NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order is coming soon.

40 media outlets representing 23 countries. 5 terabytes of leaked emails from the Colombian prosecutor’s office. The biggest investigation into organized crime originating from Latin America. #NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order is coming soon.

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209,069 просмотров • 2 лет назад

An impoverished Bulgarian “proxy", a convicted German far-right firearms trafficker, and a digital trail leading to the FSB. Read the full OCCRP investigation for an insight into how global disinformation works:

An impoverished Bulgarian “proxy", a convicted German far-right firearms trafficker, and a digital trail leading to the FSB. Read the full OCCRP investigation for an insight into how global disinformation works:

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Drug lords. Notorious politicians. Terrorism financiers. In the gleaming cityscape of Dubai, some of the world’s wealthy + most wanted have taken advantage of secrecy, lax regulations & a hot property market. Who are they? Come see. Welcome to #DubaiUnlocked.

Drug lords. Notorious politicians. Terrorism financiers. In the gleaming cityscape of Dubai, some of the world’s wealthy + most wanted have taken advantage of secrecy, lax regulations & a hot property market. Who are they? Come see. Welcome to #DubaiUnlocked.

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🇲🇹NEW: A U.S. healthcare firm at the center of Malta’s biggest-ever corruption scandal used spies to target its critics. The fees were billed to the company’s Malta subsidiary, which was largely funded with Maltese taxpayer money.

🇲🇹NEW: A U.S. healthcare firm at the center of Malta’s biggest-ever corruption scandal used spies to target its critics. The fees were billed to the company’s Malta subsidiary, which was largely funded with Maltese taxpayer money.

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Dubai is a jet-set influencer’s paradise. It's also home to convicted criminals, fugitives & sanctioned individuals who need a place to stash illicit wealth. COMING SOON: 70+ media outlets launch a global investigation of foreign property ownership IN UAE. #DubaiUnlocked

Dubai is a jet-set influencer’s paradise. It's also home to convicted criminals, fugitives & sanctioned individuals who need a place to stash illicit wealth. COMING SOON: 70+ media outlets launch a global investigation of foreign property ownership IN UAE. #DubaiUnlocked

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On this day eight years ago, Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were murdered in their home. Ján had spent much of his career investigating Marian Kočner, a prominent businessman with deep ties in Slovakia’s police and judicial apparatus. 🎥 “The Killing of a Journalist” — an OCCRP documentary

On this day eight years ago, Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were murdered in their home. Ján had spent much of his career investigating Marian Kočner, a prominent businessman with deep ties in Slovakia’s police and judicial apparatus. 🎥 “The Killing of a Journalist” — an OCCRP documentary

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27,340 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Confidential documents show the inner workings of cocaine smuggling from Ecuador to Europe via fruit shipments — and reveal some of the alleged top bananas 🍌 Here’s how the documents connect cocaine, bananas, and a convicted Balkan drug lord:

Confidential documents show the inner workings of cocaine smuggling from Ecuador to Europe via fruit shipments — and reveal some of the alleged top bananas 🍌 Here’s how the documents connect cocaine, bananas, and a convicted Balkan drug lord:

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35,346 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

NEW: During Azerbaijan’s blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, the Red Cross provided lifesaving medical evacuations. The need was great. But the ICRC's efforts were obstructed by the Azeri government — and challenged by the Azerbaijan Red Crescent.

NEW: During Azerbaijan’s blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, the Red Cross provided lifesaving medical evacuations. The need was great. But the ICRC's efforts were obstructed by the Azeri government — and challenged by the Azerbaijan Red Crescent.

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84,691 просмотров • 1 год назад

OCCRP has obtained hundreds of pages of chat logs from an Albanian-born alleged cocaine kingpin who is now one of Ecuador’s most wanted men. The text messages provide an unprecedented glimpse inside the day-to-day operations of a powerful drug-smuggling organization whose corporate-like structure stretched across the Atlantic and shifted large volumes of drugs and money — with support from inside Ecuador’s police and ports.

OCCRP has obtained hundreds of pages of chat logs from an Albanian-born alleged cocaine kingpin who is now one of Ecuador’s most wanted men. The text messages provide an unprecedented glimpse inside the day-to-day operations of a powerful drug-smuggling organization whose corporate-like structure stretched across the Atlantic and shifted large volumes of drugs and money — with support from inside Ecuador’s police and ports.

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12,607 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Former Lithuanian Premier Gintautas Paluckas has been stripped of parliamentary immunity to face criminal charges that he holds unexplained wealth. He resigned as premier last year after investigations by OCCRP member center Investigative Journalism Center "Siena" and broadcaster Laisvės TV triggered criminal and ethics probes and sparked street protests. Watch Paluckas's reaction to the decision:

Former Lithuanian Premier Gintautas Paluckas has been stripped of parliamentary immunity to face criminal charges that he holds unexplained wealth. He resigned as premier last year after investigations by OCCRP member center Investigative Journalism Center "Siena" and broadcaster Laisvės TV triggered criminal and ethics probes and sparked street protests. Watch Paluckas's reaction to the decision:

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Press freedom is under attack in #Kyrgyzstan, where 11 journalists from our partner Temirov Live have been in jail since January. Let reporters in #Bishkek know they aren’t alone. Post your video in support of a #freepress with #FreeKyrgyz11.

Press freedom is under attack in #Kyrgyzstan, where 11 journalists from our partner Temirov Live have been in jail since January. Let reporters in #Bishkek know they aren’t alone. Post your video in support of a #freepress with #FreeKyrgyz11.

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Aleksandra Subotić has been removed as CEO of United Media, reports Raskrikavanje: United Media is the media arm of United Group, a Dutch telecommunications and media conglomerate. United Group's flagship Serbian TV channel N1 has been an outlet for opposition voices amid mass anti-government protests. In August 2025, OCCRP and KRIK published a recording in which United Group CEO Stan Miller discussed plans that could weaken a broadcaster critical of the Serbian government by involving state-owned Telekom Srbija. In the recording, Telekom Srbija CEO Vladimir Lučić told Miller that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić had asked for Subotić to be replaced.

Aleksandra Subotić has been removed as CEO of United Media, reports Raskrikavanje: United Media is the media arm of United Group, a Dutch telecommunications and media conglomerate. United Group's flagship Serbian TV channel N1 has been an outlet for opposition voices amid mass anti-government protests. In August 2025, OCCRP and KRIK published a recording in which United Group CEO Stan Miller discussed plans that could weaken a broadcaster critical of the Serbian government by involving state-owned Telekom Srbija. In the recording, Telekom Srbija CEO Vladimir Lučić told Miller that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić had asked for Subotić to be replaced.

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15,211 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

What happens to the old clothes you donate? Probably not what you had in mind. An investigation by OCCRP + RISE Project reveals how Europe’s secondhand clothing trade floods Romania with 58,000 tons of used clothing a year. Much of it is dumped, burned, or thrown in rivers.

What happens to the old clothes you donate? Probably not what you had in mind. An investigation by OCCRP + RISE Project reveals how Europe’s secondhand clothing trade floods Romania with 58,000 tons of used clothing a year. Much of it is dumped, burned, or thrown in rivers.

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42,463 просмотров • 1 год назад

Our investigative journalists have reported on Azerbaijan for over a decade, revealing the hallmarks of the Aliyev regime: corruption, nepotism, and brutal repression. Now OCCRP's senior editor Ilya Lozovsky explains what it means for Baku to host the upcoming #COP29 climate change conference.

Our investigative journalists have reported on Azerbaijan for over a decade, revealing the hallmarks of the Aliyev regime: corruption, nepotism, and brutal repression. Now OCCRP's senior editor Ilya Lozovsky explains what it means for Baku to host the upcoming #COP29 climate change conference.

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34,751 просмотров • 1 год назад

Out tomorrow: “Cuello Blanco, Manos Sucias” (“White Collars, Dirty Hands”), a Spanish-language podcast from OCCRP and La No Ficción, explores the billion-dollar looting of Venezuela’s oil wealth. Follow journalist Laura_Weffer as she tells the story of how the country’s profits from oil extraction were siphoned out of the state oil company into the hands of a small circle of insiders, while ordinary Venezuelans paid the price.

Out tomorrow: “Cuello Blanco, Manos Sucias” (“White Collars, Dirty Hands”), a Spanish-language podcast from OCCRP and La No Ficción, explores the billion-dollar looting of Venezuela’s oil wealth. Follow journalist Laura_Weffer as she tells the story of how the country’s profits from oil extraction were siphoned out of the state oil company into the hands of a small circle of insiders, while ordinary Venezuelans paid the price.

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13,444 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

A synthetic drug laboratory was discovered in the attic of a popular pub in the tranquil Dutch city of Echt — packed with lunchgoers by day and dancers by night. OCCRP's editor Ingrid Gercama went there to see how the Netherlands' booming drug trade is hiding in plain sight. Read the full story

A synthetic drug laboratory was discovered in the attic of a popular pub in the tranquil Dutch city of Echt — packed with lunchgoers by day and dancers by night. OCCRP's editor Ingrid Gercama went there to see how the Netherlands' booming drug trade is hiding in plain sight. Read the full story

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Two former German lawmakers are on trial for allegedly accepting bribes from Azerbaijan to promote its interests at the Council of Europe. Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner were implicated in the Azerbaijani Laundromat scheme uncovered by OCCRP in 2017.

Two former German lawmakers are on trial for allegedly accepting bribes from Azerbaijan to promote its interests at the Council of Europe. Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner were implicated in the Azerbaijani Laundromat scheme uncovered by OCCRP in 2017.

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27,939 просмотров • 1 год назад