Ivanishvili also appears to retain a Russian company through an offshore structure, despite promising to divest from Russia.

Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Photo: Imago XINHUA/Alamy stock photo)

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Belarus’ state potash trade is sanctioned by the EU. So why is a company registered in Cyprus being paid millions by the regime of strongman Alexander Lukashenko to help move the mineral through the Port of St Petersburg?

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Amid rising medicine prices, low health insurance coverage, and stagnant household incomes, alarming reports reveal that nearly a fifth of the drugs circulating in Africa are counterfeit, frequently slipping through regulatory cracks.

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The U.S. government announced new sanctions against Paraguayan tobacco company Tabacalera del Este S.A. (Tabesa) for financially supporting former President Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, who himself was sanctioned last year for alleged corruption and ties to terrorism.

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The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Monday the forfeiture of a luxurious London townhouse and a golf club belonging to the wife of an Azerbaijani state banker who is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Baku for embezzling over three billion dollars.

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U.K. authorities announced Thursday in London the arrest of two individuals suspected of developing and administering the “Russian Coms” caller ID spoofing service, believed to have defrauded hundreds of thousands of people out of millions of dollars.

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The ringleader of an organized crime group that tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the U.K. via a container of bananas was convicted Wednesday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.

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A Greek supreme court prosecutor said on Tuesday that no government agency was criminally liable for the illegal spyware attack rocking the Mediterranean country for more than two years, but only private individuals may be held accountable for minor offenses in a decision considered by critics as a cover-up.

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The Panguna mine made a fortune but left war and pollution in its wake. A new lawsuit backed by anonymous investors is now seeking billions in compensation – and raising concerns about who stands to benefit.

Artisanal miners search for gold in the waters downstream from the Panguna mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. (Photo: Aubrey Belford/OCCRP)

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