Before his appearance in a Drake video, Hamdi Lataj was convicted in the U.S. of conspiracy to commit bank burglary. He has also been investigated — but doesn't appear to have been charged — in Canadian organized crime cases.
Leaked transaction data reveals how a major refinery in Ireland feeds into the aluminum supply chain of Russian weapons...
Hossein Shamkhani is sanctioned for allegedly running a shipping empire that generated billions of dollars for Iran and...
Back in Miami, journalist Laura Weffer observes the ruins of a criminal empire and reflects on the intersection of global...
Ali Ansari said he plans to fight U.K. sanctions. The Iranian banker has acquired properties around Europe, including a...
As Venezuela's stolen oil money is being “cleaned abroad,” back home tens of thousands of protesters opposing corruption,...
Cargo ships transporting sanctioned Russian oil through the Baltic Sea are routinely setting sail with two extra crew on...
Belarusian businessman Yury Chyzh claims he was behind the nominally-owned Cypriot companies that continued to operate while...
The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious...
An EU-based researcher has been secretly applying for money from a sanctioned Russian state organization to produce and...
Pravfond, a Russian legal-aid foundation for “compatriots” abroad, has continued to fund people and organizations across the...
For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by...
They looked like different brokers competing for your investment. Underneath, they shared the same staff, the same...
Last month, more than 30 media outlets reported on a global scam operation based in Tbilisi, prompting Georgian authorities...
Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies,...
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Back in Miami, journalist Laura Weffer observes the ruins of a criminal empire and reflects on the intersection of global...
As Venezuela's stolen oil money is being “cleaned abroad,” back home tens of thousands of protesters opposing corruption,...
The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious...
With reporting from Miami to Madrid, Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer unpacks the mechanics of the corrupt loan schemes...
Exiled Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer travels to Florida to look for Carmelo Urdaneta, a former oil ministry official...
An undercover recording from 2017 reveals the financial maneuvers of shadow bankers called upon to launder millions of...
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