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🔴 Who has done the most to empower organized crime and corruption this year? 3 days left to nominate OCCRP’s Person of the Year!
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A student-led movement has defeated Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić in a historic election victory, ending his party’s 14-year grip on power and ushering the country into a new political era.
Our colleagues at @CINSerbia captured the celebrations in Belgrade as news of the results came in.
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Megafon Digital Incubator Center ran political advertising campaigns supporting the party of Hungary’s former prime minister, Viktor Orbán. Financial records show that Megafon received donations from a firm owned by LászlĂł SzĂjj, a businessman whose companies won lucrative contracts under Orbán.
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As criminal syndicates flee crackdowns in Southeast Asia, Sri Lankan police have detained over 1,000 foreign fraud suspects this year—yet an outdated legal code has left authorities unable to secure a single conviction.
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An investigation into the abduction and murder of a Chinese cyber scam boss uncovers his shadow identities and how he was operating across borders without consequence.
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A trove of emails shows that Deloitte Cyprus helped firms beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich attempt to skirt tax and disclosure obligations by retroactively transferring assets to British Virgin Islands companies using backdated paperwork.
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JUST OUT: đź”´ A Backdoor for Serbian Votes Via a Vienna Bakery
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Cypriot officials faced questioning from parliamentarians following an investigation by OCCRP and partners, which found that corporate services firms backdated documents to help companies tied to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich transfer billions offshore.
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Serbia’s student-led opposition enters Sunday’s parliamentary election locked in a dead heat with Aleksandar Vučić—even as voters brace for ballot manipulation.
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Is Serbia on the verge of a political reckoning? This Sunday, the country's longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić will face a formidable challenge to his 14-year grip on power in snap parliamentary elections. The student-led movement behind the past two years of anti-corruption street protests is now seeking to oust Vučić and his party through the ballot box.
We went to an opposition rally in Belgrade to ask Serbs about the graft and impunity that has fuelled their movement and long-standing concerns about the government's commitment to ensuring free and fair elections.
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What we found out this week ahead of elections: an unofficial voting pipeline for the Serbian 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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Brendon Luo was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in June. He still owns a mansion in California worth an estimated $5 million.
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A U.S. district court found four Lebanese defendants liable for fraud, torture and civil conspiracy in the 2019 detention of Elie and Lara Samaha, a couple who say they were held in an underground military prison after returning to Lebanon to settle a family dispute.
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Cambodia Cracked Down on Banks Allegedly Linked to Cyber-Scams. The IMF Says the Problem Persists.
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The EU’s sanctions envoy said alumina from Ireland’s Aughinish refinery is reaching Russia’s military-industrial complex and something should be done about that. The statement adds pressure on Brussels to close a loophole that allows the material to be exported despite its use in the supply chains of Russian weapons makers.
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Smugglers Collected Up to $509M on Europe Routes in 2025
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Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown Nets 1,400 Arrests and $105M
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