All news by author Sophia Martinez

OCCRP member centers found that an Italian man with business in Slovakia has been convicted on drug charges involving a group linked to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia. But the alleged ‘Ndrangheta links to Slovakia don’t end with him.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, linked to illegal online casinos and wanted by Europol, has been actively trying to erase mentions of himself online in recent months.

The crystal-and-diamond Winter Egg, one of only seven Imperial Fabergé eggs in private hands, sold for £22.9 million (€27.5 million), breaking the world record for a Fabergé piece.

Meghan Markle is ringing in Christmas with crackers, gougères, and lots of bling - in the form of jewellery worth more than $460,000 in her brand new Netflix special.

Cybersecurity firm ESET has released a new study concluding that Telegram is not a secure messaging platform, largely because end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default.

Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal.

Newly released materials link Russian environmental chief to pressure campaign tied to notorious contract-killing network

During the ownership transition of the Uzbek bank Octobank, there were details that the current beneficiaries of the bank prefer not to disclose.

Swedish oil billionaire Torbjörn Törnqvist is stepping down as CEO of his oil trading company Gunvor and selling his majority stake in the company.

The findings come from the first continent-wide mapping of landfills, conducted by the Guardian, Watershed Investigations, and Investigate Europe.

When the bombs detonated, they destroyed vacant office buildings and ruined echoing, multi-cuisine food courts. Dynamite brought down a four-story hospital, silent karaoke venues, empty gyms, and dorm rooms.

The office of the Swiss attorney general announced on Monday that it charged a compliance officer employed by the former bank Credit Suisse SA, now part of UBS SA, with money laundering.

Société Générale de Banque au Liban is one of several banks facing civil suits for allegedly preventing customers from retrieving funds after the collapse of Lebanon’s financial system.

In the early 2000s, the current head of Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova, was closely associated with one of Aslan Gagiev’s (Dzhako) most violent gangs.

Sohail Amiri, 30, who claims to be from Afghanistan, allegedly tried to kiss one of his victims and inappropriately approached two others.

Media reports have opened a veritable Pandora’s box around Alexey Sinenko — known online as Suter — the founder of Ashoo, one of the largest online and Telegram-based escort marketplaces in Russia.

A recent investigation reveals that the Odesa Port Plant is once more being exploited through manipulated gas tenders and offshore export schemes involving individuals such as Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and the supposedly "dead" fraudster Dmytro Malynovskyi.

A search is underway for a British tourist who reportedly fell from a TUI-operated cruise ship north of the Canary Islands. Today, Spanish authorities confirmed the man who went overboard was a 76-year-old from the ‘British Isles’.

A British mother, who was detained by ICE while holding her newborn baby, has been released and was able to celebrate Thanksgiving with her family.

Despite holding a government position that legally bars him from commercial activity, Russian oligarch and senator Suleiman Kerimov is allegedly running major business projects — and doing so jointly with one of the most powerful figures in the Kremlin: Anton Vaino, head of the presidential administration.

Amid a wave of media reports accusing him of helping bypass sanctions and maintaining ties with Russia’s military-linked industries, Oleg Tsyura has allegedly ramped up attempts to reshape his digital presence.

How Vladimir Litvinenko, rector of the Mining University, transformed the university into a source of billions, political influence, and elite real estate