A Guinea-Bissau fisheries assessment obtained by OCCRP shows that the sardinella — an important food source — has been decimated in the years since two Chinese fishmeal-production vessels set up shop offshore. After the industry was banned earlier this year, the floating factories moved south to Sierra Leone.
A U.S. federal indictment against Prince Group Chairman Chen Zhi anonymized his alleged co-conspirators, but personal...
Mazyar Mahan, convicted in absentia in Iran in connection with a $25 million pyramid scheme that defrauded hundreds of...
A man alleged by a U.S. Treasury official to have acted as a front for U.S.-sanctioned Lebanese brothers was the owner of a...
Brian Sutton, accused of masterminding one of the largest fraud schemes to ever be unraveled in the United States, is living...
Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that...
Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties...
Morocco’s government has long denied using the Israeli spyware Pegasus to surveil its citizens. Now, a former Moroccan...
Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising...
An EU-based researcher has been secretly applying for money from a sanctioned Russian state organization to produce and...
Pravfond, a Russian legal-aid foundation for “compatriots” abroad, has continued to fund people and organizations across the...
For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by...
They looked like different brokers competing for your investment. Underneath, they shared the same staff, the same...
Last month, more than 30 media outlets reported on a global scam operation based in Tbilisi, prompting Georgian authorities...
Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies,...
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Back in Miami, journalist Laura Weffer observes the ruins of a criminal empire and reflects on the intersection of global...
As Venezuela's stolen oil money is being “cleaned abroad,” back home tens of thousands of protesters opposing corruption,...
The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious...
With reporting from Miami to Madrid, Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer unpacks the mechanics of the corrupt loan schemes...
Exiled Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer travels to Florida to look for Carmelo Urdaneta, a former oil ministry official...
An undercover recording from 2017 reveals the financial maneuvers of shadow bankers called upon to launder millions of...
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