Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a criminal group suspected of producing up to 1,000 forged documents each month in the western Khmelnytskyi region.

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U.S. healthcare operator Steward paid over $7 million to U.K.-based intelligence firms that conducted surveillance and disinformation operations against its critics — and even a Steward employee. The fees were billed to Steward’s Maltese division, which was largely funded with taxpayer money.

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A private jet at the center of a mysterious fake gold smuggling case in Zambia belongs to Ibrahim al-Organi, an Egyptian tycoon and leader of a large tribe who was once jailed during Bedouin protests, but now leads a tribal alliance that helps keep the Sinai peninsula under government control.

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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment Thursday against a Bulgarian entrepreneur who allegedly falsified documents for a loan to fund construction of a dairy processing facility.

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Police in South Africa arrested two illegal miners on Thursday, adding them to the half a million people detained over the past year in an operation designed to decrease crime in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.

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Law enforcement agencies around the world coordinated in a joint operation against human trafficking that led to hundreds of arrests and more than 1,000 victims identified, Interpol reported.

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British transparency campaigners and opposition politicians have called for the next government to tighten political party financing laws following an OCCRP investigation that raised questions about the origins of a 2020 donation to the ruling Conservative Party.

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The EU implemented Monday its 14th round of sanctions against Russia for its ongoing aggression against Ukraine, this time targeting the country’s seaborne trade and liquified natural gas (LNG) industries, which continue to fill the Kremlin’s war chest.

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An international anti-money laundering body that took the United Arab Emirates off its “gray list” will review findings from a recent investigation by OCCRP and media partners, which revealed that convicted criminals, fugitives, and sanctioned individuals own property in Dubai.

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A small company that donated to the U.K. Conservatives in 2020 has multiple connections to Doug Barrowman, who is at the center of a major scandal involving allegations that he secretly obtained lucrative PPE contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic with his wife’s help.

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