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In a new piece for Investigative Reporters and Editors (@IRE_NICAR), OCCRP Chief Impact Officer Alexandra Gillies examines the key opportunities and challenges journalists face when reporting on state capture.
Read the full article: ire.org/2026/10/19/chronicli…
World Center of Baby plunged surrogates and prospective parents into chaos when it announced it was filing for bankruptcy. Now the agency’s U.S. corporate entity must pay out tens of thousands of dollars to a couple after failing to respond to a civil suit alleging breach of contract and fraud.
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Ahead of a defining parliamentary election in Serbia, an unofficial voting pipeline for the diaspora in Vienna offers a glimpse of what election monitors have described as an uneven playing field tipped in the favor of the ruling party.
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Author of “The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers” @CarlosBarraganT immersed himself in the lives of four modern romance scammers in a neighborhood in Lagos to find out why they take advantage of victims.
Carlos' mom ten years ago was trying to find a partner online after he told her that she should try a dating app. And after she met an American soldier called Brian, she fell in love. But Brian was, as later discovered, not an American soldier based in Syria, but actually a Nigerian scammer who was trying to lure in the woman so he could get some money.
After a few years of seeing his mom struggling with loneliness, Carlos traveled to Nigeria trying to find Brian. Read more about what he found: occrp.org/en/feature/five-qu…
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A 2025 investigation by OCCRP revealed that, in the following decades, Musingku had built a global following among both locals and Western conspiracy theorists and adherents of “sovereign citizen” ideology.
South Pacific Ponzi Scam “King” Noah Musingku Dies occrp.org/en/news/south-paci… via @OCCRP
Vučić Rejects Russia Sanctions, Blames Foreign Powers for Protests
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As student-led demonstrations enter their second week, Prime Minister Edi Rama calls for unconditional talks while police report mass arrests and an ombudsman probe details systemic abuse against detainees.
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The Portuguese Football Federations said its sponsorship deal with China’s Changan Automobile went through a “tight” compliance process. Reporters found that the Russian military uses Changan trucks to launch drone strikes against Ukraine.
Read more in our story with @Slidstvo_info and Dnipro Media: occrp.org/en/scoop/a-chinese…
After defrauding victims of tens of millions in 1990s pyramid scheme, Noah Musingku spent decades ruling an armed, breakaway pseudo-state in Papua New Guinea. He died earlier this month.
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OCCRP’s Person of the Year is back! Nominate an individual who has done the most to promote and empower organized crime and corruption in a country, region, or around the world.
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Tens of millions of dollars that the London-listed iron ore giant Ferrexpo donated to a Ukrainian charity were not used for their intended purpose, according to a forensic report shared with OCCRP. Instead, the charitable funds flowed through dozens of Ukrainian companies — some of which were owned or controlled by Ferrexpo’s then-CEO Kostyantyn Zhevago.
Read the full story: occrp.org/en/investigation/i…
The sudden handover of the Kazakh National University of Sports follows a joint investigation by Radio Azattyq and OCCRP, which revealed how President Tokayev’s grandnephew founded educational ventures that received significant state backing.
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Carlos Barragán, author of “The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers,” immersed himself in the lives of four modern romance scammers in a neighborhood in Lagos to find out why they take advantage of victims.
We asked @CarlosBarraganT what’s behind Nigeria’s romance scam industry: occrp.org/en/feature/five-qu…
🇰🇿 NEW INVESTIGATION: A young Kazakh man founded two major educational ventures that went on to receive significant state support. Reporters found that he is the grand-nephew of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
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Ponzi scammer turned "king" Noah Musingku has reportedly died in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
Just two years ago his cult followers were telling me he would reign for a thousand years after making them all trillionaires.
This guy went from running a massive pyramid fraud in the 1990s to establishing his own self-styled kingdom at the center of a remote, war-ravaged Pacific island.
He set up his own banks and printed his own money, and built a devoted following among Western conspiracy theorists and "sovereign citizens".
In the U.S. alone, millions of dollars were lost in frauds linked to Musingku's currency.
One of the only people to put anyone behind bars for it was Rob Sand (@RobSandIA) — then an Iowa prosecutor who is heavy favorite to be elected as the state's Democratic governor next month.
JUST OUT: đź”´How Deloitte in Cyprus Helped Abramovich Firms Rewrite Financial History
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