Official statistics on busts of drug shipments originating in Colombia — the world’s largest cocaine producer by far — are scattershot and hard to find. A leak of prosecutor’s office documents helped reporters fill in some gaps.
It’s unclear who was behind the calls, which targeted journalists and activists and were disguised using a “spoofing” app.
Thousands of Georgians took streets to protest the Foreign agent law. (Photo: Studio Monitori)
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has drastically decreased transparency into public spending, even as he has launched an ambitious new series of state projects intended to show off his government’s power. But behind the scenes, the projects are being implemented by companies owned by people who appear to be close to the president himself.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the name of blue-blooded Polish businessman Andre Mankowski has disappeared from the website of the Moscow-based IT company AMT Group, where he was formerly listed as president. Yet reporters found the EU citizen has continued to make money from the firm, which does business with Putin’s sanctioned regime.
Customs data shows the Serbian Progressive Party spent millions importing promotional material ahead of elections in 2022, far more than the party had previously paid for similar items. But the purchase does not appear in the party’s campaign accounts, raising questions about the purpose of the goods and whether they were properly declared.
An investigation into whether India’s powerful Adani Group was overvaluing the coal it sold to power companies was effectively stopped in the courts after Adani legally challenged regulators’ attempts to collect evidence. Now, OCCRP has obtained some of the evidence regulators sought and it appears to support the allegations, including overcharging.
Three people arrested in a raid on an alleged money laundering ring in Singapore invested over $30 million in Dubai real estate, leaked data reveals. One of the suspects, who was wanted in China at the time, was behind a property broker that became a major sales agent for the city’s largest real estate developer, part-owned by Dubai’s ruler.
