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Covers:  Latin America, Eastern Europe, Financial Crime, Organised Crime, Environmental Crime, Trafficking, Money Laundering, Offshore Finance, Corruption, Lobbying
Investigative reporter in Latin America / periodista de investigación en latinoamérica @OCCRP / organized crime & corruption, money laundering, environmental
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Trail of Drug-Linked Planes Leads Back to California Seller - and U.S. Aviation Regulatory 'Blind...

Trail of Drug-Linked Planes Leads Back to California Seller - and U.S. Aviation Regulatory 'Blind...

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — OCCRP reviewed the sales of 30 planes by Lance Zane Ricotta's companies since 2014, and found evidence that 11 of them were seized, investigated, or found abroad in suspected or confirmed drug cases. Ricotta denied liability for how the aircraft were used, and experts said a loophole in U.S.
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Fear is the Message: How the Jalisco New Generation Cartel Weaponized Algorithms to Paralyze Mexi...

Fear is the Message: How the Jalisco New Generation Cartel Weaponized Algorithms to Paralyze Mexi...

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — In the hours after Mexican drug lord "El Mencho's" killing by the military, his Jalisco New Generation Cartel responded by deploying hundreds of roadblocks, torching banks and supermarkets - and rapidly sharing the carnage on social media. The resulting national "psychosis" spotlights the latest evolution of narco-...
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ANALYSIS: Alleged Mexican Cartel Members Buy Time With Legal Mechanism

ANALYSIS: Alleged Mexican Cartel Members Buy Time With Legal Mechanism

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — Men accused of murder, drug trafficking, and cartel activity have used "amparos," which are supposed to protect individual rights against miscarriages of justice, to indefinitely delay trials and extraditions.
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El Salvador Overpaid $7 Million to Shell Company for Undelivered Milk During Pandemic

El Salvador Overpaid $7 Million to Shell Company for Undelivered Milk During Pandemic

El Faro (El Salvador) — In the chaotic first week of the Covid pandemic, El Salvador paid an offshore company $27 million USD to provide milk powder for its hungry citizens - but the shell firm overcharged and under-delivered, pocketing $7 million, a government audit found.
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The Dictators' Bank - OCCRP

The Dictators' Bank - OCCRP

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — The Central American Bank for Economic Integration was supposed to give the region more control over its own development - but a new investigation raises questions about the bank's lending practices.
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Cocaine Everywhere All at Once: How Drug Production Is Spreading Into Central America, Europe, an...

Cocaine Everywhere All at Once: How Drug Production Is Spreading Into Central America, Europe, an...

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — Drug traffickers are redrawing the map of the cocaine trade for the 21st century: Cultivation is spreading further north, into Central America, while processing labs are jumping across the Atlantic...
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The Riviera Maya Gang

The Riviera Maya Gang

OCCRP — They weren't the people you'd peg for success in the world of finance and technology: a group of young men from a small city in an agricultural region of Romania. But they were clever and they had grit - and a unique skill set.
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Mexico's Dairy Industry Is Destroying An Oasis That May Hold the Key to the Origins of Life

Mexico's Dairy Industry Is Destroying An Oasis That May Hold the Key to the Origins of Life

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — As their once-lush region runs dry, farmers in a Coahuilan wetland allege misconduct by huge dairy firms and Mexico's state water agency. Experts say the dairy industry has been draining the life out of Cuatrociénegas, a unique wetland reserve containing bacteria that may explain evolution.
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The Troika Laundromat

The Troika Laundromat

OCCRP — Laundromats are complex systems for moving money that allow corrupt politicians, organized crime figures, and wealthy business people to secretly invest their ill-gotten millions, launder money, evade taxes, and fulfill other goals. OCCRP has previously exposed three such schemes: The Proxy Platform, the Russian Laundromat, and the Azerbaijani Laundromat.
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Central American Development Bank's Role in Guatemala's Odebrecht Scandal - OCCRP

Central American Development Bank's Role in Guatemala's Odebrecht Scandal - OCCRP

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — An investigation by prosecutors - including testimony from a former minister at the center of several corruption scandals - indicates a loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration ...
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Russian Asset Tracker - OCCRP

Russian Asset Tracker - OCCRP

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — Alisher Usmanov, who has been closely tied to top Russian leaders, hides behind trusts, secretive offshore companies, Swiss bank accounts, and his family members to detach his name from his billions. Nations around the world, including most of Europe, have moved against Russian oligarchs, restricting where their private jets can freely travel.
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Bătălia miliardarilor de la Roșia Montană

Bătălia miliardarilor de la Roșia Montană

riseproject.ro — Noi documente și tranzacții descoperite de jurnaliștii de investigații arată legăturile dintre oamenii de afaceri interesați să exploateze aurul de la Roșia Montana, firma de avocatură care a reprezentat Gabriel Resources în procesul de la Washington împotriva Statului Român și doi foști premieri ai României. Călin Popescu Tăriceanu a susținut controversatul proiect minier din Apuseni și a criticat intervențiile unor ONG-uri susținute de miliardarul George Soros, pe care l-a acuzat de imixtiuni în politicile statului. Acuzații pe care le-au adus și oamenii de afaceri din anturajul politic al fostului lider ALDE, care erau interesați de reluarea exploatării metalelor prețioase de la Roșia Montana, dar și de pe alte continente.
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Suisse Secrets

Suisse Secrets

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) —
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Boss Babies: The Children Who Own Hundreds of Luxembourg Corporations

Boss Babies: The Children Who Own Hundreds of Luxembourg Corporations

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — When Luxembourg opened up its register of beneficial owners in 2019, the new data revealed a surprising fact: Hundreds of children own or hold significant stakes in companies based in the grand duchy.
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Mexican Prosecutor Who Led Investigations Into Violent Crimes of Romanian Gang is Accused of Bein...

Mexican Prosecutor Who Led Investigations Into Violent Crimes of Romanian Gang is Accused of Bein...

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — A former member of the Riviera Maya gang was stabbed in Mexico by his onetime comrades. The Mexican prosecutor who led the investigation didn't even look into them as suspects. Now, it turns out, they may have been paying him off. Back in Romania, the gang members were found guilty of the same crimes.
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Story Killers - OCCRP

Story Killers - OCCRP

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — A Spanish reputation management company's 'blackhat tactics' help bad actors around the world erase their past. Their companies are under investigation for arranging fictitious marriages, falsifying documents to smuggle babies out of Ukraine, and trading children for profit.
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The Pegasus Project

The Pegasus Project

OCCRP — How new surveillance states keep democracy and the public in check.
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Los 'bebé jefazos': menores dueños de cientos de empresas en Luxemburgo

Los 'bebé jefazos': menores dueños de cientos de empresas en Luxemburgo

Aristegui Noticias — Un niño mongol de tan sólo un año, dueño de parte de una importante empresa de carbón en el desierto de Gobi. Un azerbaiyano de once años que se beneficia de contratos gubernamentales con Turkmenistán y China. Una adolescente rusa que cuenta con inversiones en sistemas de pensiones canadienses y californianos, además de miles de millones de dólares en activos.
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BabyLux: Los niños que poseen cientos de corporaciones en Luxemburgo

BabyLux: Los niños que poseen cientos de corporaciones en Luxemburgo

Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity — Cuando Luxemburgo abrió su registro de beneficiarios reales, los nuevos datos revelaron un hecho sorprendente: cientos de niños poseen o tienen participaciones significativas en empresas con sede en el Gran Ducado europeo. Una investigación de OCCRP y sus socios -entre ellos MCCI- identificaron a 291 menores que poseen o tienen participaciones significativas en empresas de Luxemburgo que han controlado colectivamente miles de millones en activos.
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Luxembourg Companies Add Evidence for Brazilian Investigations into Corruption and Crime

Luxembourg Companies Add Evidence for Brazilian Investigations into Corruption and Crime

OCCRP —
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La banda de la Riviera Maya

La banda de la Riviera Maya

Quinto Elemento Lab — El equipo detrás de esta investigación: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad (MCCI), RISE Project. Reporteras y reporteros: Attila Biro, Ana Poenariu, Lilia Saúl, Jonathan Wrate, Nathan Jaccard, Daniela Castro, Timea Hont, Raúl Olmos, Dan Kelly, Andrea Cárdenas, Armando Talamantes, Salvador Camarena, Guilherme Amado, Lucía Vergara, Paul Radu.
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De Rumania a Cancún, la banda de la Riviera Maya: bandidos globales de cajeros ·

De Rumania a Cancún, la banda de la Riviera Maya: bandidos globales de cajeros ·

Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad — Desde 2014 opera en destinos turísticos de México una red que roba cientos de millones de dólares a través de cajeros automáticos legales.
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For American Amusement Park, Russian Money Was the Wildest Ride of All

For American Amusement Park, Russian Money Was the Wildest Ride of All

OCCRP — Chadwick Johnson was excited, at first, to hear that big money from Russia was on its way to save his job in South Carolina. Months earlier, the seasoned live entertainment manager had upended his life, moving from Florida to work at the new Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach.
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How IOS Group Supersized the Shell Company Game

How IOS Group Supersized the Shell Company Game

OCCRP — For almost 30 years, IOS Group created shell companies for international clients, playing a major, though apparently passive, behind-the-scenes role in multiple high-profile money laundering cases. The Irish-Latvian company steadily pumped out the paperwork for shadow businesses that appear to exist only to hide assets and shield owners from global regulators.
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