Authorities threatened to close down Interior Architecture Landscape due to unpaid taxes. The design firm still managed to make a major donation to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The firm said the donations complied with U.K. electoral law.
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German prosecutors searched Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin as part of a probe into suspected money laundering linked to past transactions, adding to a series of high-profile investigations involving the lender.
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Montenegro’s president has accused the government of systemic failure after Miloš Medenica, the son of a former Supreme Court president, vanished despite being under house arrest following a major organised crime conviction.
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Nicolás Maduro's arrest on U.S. narcoterrorism charges marks a dramatic turning point for Venezuela — but does it signal the dismantling of a narco-state, or merely a change in leadership?
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🌎🌍🌏WEEKLY UPDATE🌏🌍🌎
Here's this week's round-the-world roundup of OCCRP's biggest stories and scoops 👇
Since an Italian judge launched the “Free to Choose” program, authorities said they removed more than 200 minors from known mafia families.
But critics question the wisdom of using drastic measures, arguing “there is no such thing as the mafia’s genetic code.”
Greek Authorities Prepare More Arrests in EU Farm Subsidy Fraud Case
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The German Alternative for Germany (AfD) party attacked OCCRP in parliamentary questions to the German govt. The questions are part of a larger disinformation campaign by AfD members that falsely asserts that OCCRP is a tool of the European Commission. Read more www.occrp.org/en/announcem...
Both banks have received substantial loans from the Dutch state-owned Entrepreneurial Development Bank, known as FMO.
The bank said it performs “in-depth due diligence” and “monitoring procedures”, and does not accept any client participating in activities related to illegal deforestation.
This is Paraguay’s Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest, used by 400+ indigenous communities and home to endangered jaguars.
Paraguayan law prohibits deforestation in the country’s east — but we uncovered how two banks loaned funds to two firms owned by a businessman with a history of environmental crimes.
A Brazilian businessman admitted to environmental crimes relating to a 2012 fire destroying 7,000+ hectares of natural forest — but two Paraguayan banks continued loaning millions to him afterwards.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority alleges Binesh Munakarmi illegally amassed $172,000 over 25 years, while officials and a Chinese contractor are accused of misusing $74 million in airport construction funds.
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Prosecutors in Geneva decided not to act on a criminal complaint by the private bank Reyl, which sought interrogations of three Swiss journalists who cooperated with OCCRP.
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When human rights officials visited a Turkish hotel hosting evacuated Ukrainian children, they documented physical abuse, neglect, and underage pregnancies.
Frustrated that the report went nowhere, a whistleblower leaked it to reporters: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
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Lawyers for Roman Abramovich failed in a legal challenge to have an investigation into suspected money laundering dismissed and a freezing order over assets worth more than $7 billion lifted. Details had been largely hidden until this week: www.occrp.org/en/news/prob...
In September 2017, Russia and other UN Security Council members imposed severe restrictions on selling oil products to North Korea after a nuclear test.
Now Russia appears to have violated these sanctions — so @istories.bsky.social dug into the finances:
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Doctors in Finland can only lose their licenses for crimes committed in relation to their work — so rapists and violent offenders still retain their permission to practice medicine.
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NEW: Doctors convicted of violent and sexual crimes still have active medical licenses in Finland due to a loophole, Yle reports.
Under Finnish law, medical regulators only consider doctors’ crimes if they were committed in connection with their practice.
Philippine Cabinet Shake-Up as Two Top Officials Quit Amid Flood-Control Probe
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