Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

Deterring Russia is the only effective long-term strategy for dealing with Moscow. It’s about making the Kremlin see a simple reality every day: war comes at too high a cost. Deterrence must work not just until the end of the current conflict, but far beyond -

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

🖤 8 years since the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and justice is still pending. Oligarch Marián Kočner was acquitted of ordering the killing, but the verdict was overturned. In this book excerpt, Tomáš Madleňák explains the errors & the grounds for the retrial which has just started.

It was 8 years ago today that I got a call from our Czech editor Pavla Holcová. Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak, who we were working with, and his fiancé had been murdered. It shook me badly but we immediately started finishing our work. We will get them I promised.

JUST ANNOUNCED!! Find out who we’ve named as our global anti-crime and corruption hero. These are the best of the best fighting corruption and crime. True heroes. We used to name the worst person in crime but there are just too many now. Heroes need highlighting!

🧵 Matryoshka, Russian-state aligned bot network has introduced a hashtag HollywoodAgainstZelensky on X/Twitter yesterday. With deepfaked audio, multiple manipulated Cameo videos make celebrities to "demand" that European leaders force Zelensky to sign a peace treaty on Russia's terms.

In countries where law enforcement has become dysfunctional, such as Romania & Ukraine, independent anti-corruption agencies have been successfully established. In the US, DOJ has collapsed. The US needs to set up independent anti-corruption agencies to fight top-level crimes.

Our new documentary, “How We Tracked a ‘Fake Prince’ Scammer to His Nigerian Mansion,” hit more than half a million views. We spoke to the journalist behind the story, who started investigating after a Romanian businesswoman believed she’d invested £200 million in a fake humanitarian foundation.

Emails show Epstein helped a girlfriend obtain roles at the International Peace Institute, a New York-base think tank, and may even have subsidized her salary at one point. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/jef...

The U.S. barred the president of Palau’s Senate from entering the country over allegations he accepted bribes to promote the interests of China’s government and criminal figures. www.occrp.org/en/news/us-b...

Daren Li, who has fled a 20-year sentence for for his alleged role in stealing and laundering $73 million in Cambodia-based cryptocurrency scams, rents out a villa in Dubai www.occrp.org/en/news/chin...

How fraudsters are posing as the real-life Crown Prince of Dubai to ensnare victims in their romance scams. www.occrp.org/en/feature/t...

Diplomats in Geneva pay tribute to the Russian opposition leader as European laboratories claim he was poisoned with a dart frog neurotoxin

Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a world where democratic institutions are weakening, civic space is shrinking, and corruption is rising—from Europe and the Americas to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. www.occrp.org/en/news/corr...

While Georgia’s Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing, the EU is moving to blacklist the Kulevi terminal for sanctions evasion. The designation would cripple the logistics of the SOCAR-owned facility, making it "unattractive to international shipping." www.occrp.org/en/news/eu-c...

The sudden removal of Kyrgyzstan’s powerful security chief ends a years-long political alliance that helped shape the country’s post-uprising leadership. www.occrp.org/en/news/kyrg...

Hong Kong Jails Jimmy Lai for 20 Years Under National Security Law www.occrp.org/en/news/hong...

Investigators find massive cannabis haul in North Macedonia, suspected to fuel illegal activities and linked to a recent record drug bust in Serbia. www.occrp.org/en/news/reco...

Investigators say a network of commission shops secretly issued illegal high-interest loans secured by personal property and funneled millions through sham contracts and dividend payouts. www.occrp.org/en/news/kaza...

Emails released by the U.S. Justice Department trace a years-long friendship between Jeffrey Epstein and Karim Wade — the son of Senegal’s former president — who was jailed for corruption. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/eps...

Secretive Firms From U.K. to Singapore Win $200M in Tenders From Uzbek State Giant www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

After a Romanian businesswoman was tricked into sending $2.5 million to a scammer posing as Dubai’s Crown Prince, OCCRP followed his digital breadcrumbs … all the way to his new mansion in Abuja, Nigeria. Check out the video here: buff.ly/xTWjfPD

The military, the money, the criminal networks — what is the future of Venezuela post-Maduro? In OCCRP’s latest briefing, journalists Nathan Jaccard, Valentina Lares ,and Steven Dudley unpack the likely scenarios. Become an OCCRP member occrp.org/donate to get access to this and future briefings.

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. www.occrp.org/en/news/desi...

Appointed to protect Nigerians’ pension funds, Abdulrasheed Maina was convicted of laundering them. OCCRP, Premium Times, and @pplaaf.bsky.social have uncovered U.S. and Dubai properties he bought in cash before the conviction. None of them were seized by authorities: www.occrp.org/en/scoop/nig...

Journalists: Want your investigations to reach younger audiences & have a greater impact? Submit your story to the Investigative Journalism Game Jam, where journalists collaborate with world-class game developers. Register here: buff.ly/ZoqjSKq

A Romanian businesswoman thought she was helping Dubai's Crown Prince invest £200 million in a humanitarian foundation. She wasn't. By the time she discovered the truth, she'd already sent $2.5 million to a Nigerian scammer — a man who'd spent years perfecting his royal impersonation.

3 days left to join upcoming OCCRP Briefing. Our expert panel will analyze the evolution of crime networks, implications for regional security and financial crime, and what compliance professionals should anticipate as power dynamics shift in Caracas. Join by making a donation: buff.ly/62eEEUb

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. www.occrp.org/en/news/mont...

Journalists: Want your investigations to reach younger audiences & have a greater impact? Submit your story to the Investigative Journalism Game Jam, where journalists collaborate with world-class indie developers to transform reporting into in-browser games.

Journalists: Want your investigations to reach younger audiences & have a greater impact? Submit your story to the Investigative Journalism Game Jam, where journalists collaborate with world-class indie developers to transform reporting into in-browser games.

Will Maduro's downfall disrupt or merely reshape Venezuela's criminal state? Our expert panel will analyze the continuity and evolution of these networks, the implications for regional security and financial crime, and what compliance professionals should anticipate as power shift in Caracas.

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. www.occrp.org/en/news/germ...

Proposed amendments would require government approval for most foreign funding and impose criminal penalties, raising fears of a crackdown on independent civil society and journalism. www.occrp.org/en/news/geor...

Journalists are demanding the UK government finally act on frivolous SLAPP lawsuits against journalists. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...

Yesterday OCCRP Pacific team published an exclusive story about two American women who escaped a doomsday sect. One of them alleged in a police complaint that she gave free spa treatments to politicians, including the former prime minister www.occrp.org/en/news/amer...

The Korean doomsday sect Grace Road Church believes a nuclear-tinged Judgment Day is rapidly approaching, and that Fiji is the post-apocalyptic promised land from which they will feed humanity. OCCRP’s Pacific Editor Dan McGarry described his work investigating the cult for a Fern documentary.

Cocaine trafficking into Europe is reaching record levels as criminal networks shift away from major hubs like Antwerp and Rotterdam toward smaller docks and high-tech tactics, including custom-built submarines.

Russia tops the list of countries issuing Interpol Red Notices, according to a report by Disclose and BBC. Interpol imposed heightened scrutiny on Russian Red Notice requests after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. www.occrp.org/en/news/repr...

China Executes 11 in Myanmar-Linked Telecom Fraud Gang www.occrp.org/en/news/chin...

You can listen in Spanish here www.occrp.org/es/proyecto/... Or the translated English version here www.occrp.org/en/project/w...

NEW: “Cuello Blanco, Manos Sucias” (“White Collars, Dirty Hands”), a podcast from OCCRP and La No Ficción, explores the looting of Venezuela’s oil wealth. @lauraweffer.bsky.social tells the story of how the profits from oil extraction were siphoned out of the state oil company.

Amid reports of Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers evading sanctions, maritime data analyzed by iFact shows vessels hiding their movements across the Black Sea before appearing in Georgian waters. www.occrp.org/en/news/secr...

Touted as a major foreign investor in Georgia, a purported Cambodian businessman named Thomas Xu made a splash in the Black Sea city of Batumi in the early 2020s, even being named the honorary president of its popular football team.

An American woman who escaped a Korean doomsday cult in Fiji alleged in a police complaint that she gave free spa treatments to politicians, including the former prime minister. www.occrp.org/en/news/amer...

The administration is backing off their shrill accusations against Alex Pretti who was murdered in cold blood by ICE. Miller and Noem had called him a terrorist and bent on a massacre. Video showed not true. ICE agents should be charged with murder and Miller and Noem fired.

The administration is backing off their shrill accusations against Alex Pretti who was murdered in cold blood by ICE. Miller and Noem had called him a terrorist and bent on a massacre. Video showed not true. ICE agents should be charged with murder and Miller and Noem fired.

Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/s...

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...