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An internal report recorded 341 integrity breaches within France’s National Police last year, driven by a sharp rise in unauthorized database queries and bribery, even as the oversight body lacks the power to penalize officers.
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"Prosecutors allege that Oxygen Forensics portrayed itself to U.S. government customers as an independent American company, while Davydov and four other Russian nationals actually owned and controlled it through a Cyprus-based holding company"
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🇨🇴 Naim Pérez, known as Bendito Menor" (“Little Blessing”), turned his life as an illegal armed-group commander into social media content that resonated in Colombia. His death in a government raid earlier this month may have amplified his fame.
New story by Nathan Jaccard (@NJaccard) on how Colombia’s biggest ‘narcoinfluencer’ weaponized social media: occrp.org/en/feature/the-dra…
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U.S. prosecutors allege that Oxygen Forensics concealed its Russian ownership and Russia-based software development while selling digital forensic tools to American government agencies, including the Secret Service.
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Iraqi MPs Alia Nassif and Ashwaq Salem Hassan were sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay more than $54 million in fines and restitution for illicit enrichment.
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Bosnian Police Officer Dies by Suicide Following Raid
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Vanuatu’s citizenship commission pushed back against reports that it cancelled the influencer’s passport, citing a lack of criminal convictions.
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Defense lawyers argued in a Virginia courtroom that Sebastián Marset "studiously avoided" the United States, asking a federal judge to dismiss narco-terrorism and money laundering charges on the grounds that his alleged criminal empire operated entirely outside American borders.
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Azerbaijan Pardons French Citizen as EU Lifts Sanctions on Russian Billionaire
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EPPO Arrests Suspect in $79M Cross-Border VAT Fraud Probe
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The discovery of 39 suspected trafficked workers in a Port Moresby home highlights warnings that global cybercrime syndicates are expanding.
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The former mother-in-law of recently dismissed Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko owned a Dubai villa while he was an official at a different government body, according to leaked property data. She denies making the purchase.
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Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Vlora Hyseni’s immediate dismissal after prosecutors implicated her in a sweeping investigation involving manipulated public contracts and the alleged destruction of evidence.
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Romanian Ex-Presidential Candidate Held in €1.1M Fraud Case
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🔵Join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business with Leila Nazgül Seiitbek (@l_seiitbek), Lasslett Kristian (@KLasslett), Eldiyar Arykbaev (@arykbaevKG) and Ilya Lozovsky (@ichbinilya).
Central Asia is often viewed through the prism of Western geopolitical competition with Russia. But there’s much more going on than that: While promising reform and modernization, political heavyweights jockey for power. Assets and opportunities are captured by well-connected elites. Independent voices face growing repression. Meanwhile, China’s influence looms ever larger.
This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: membership.occrp.org/briefin…
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Disappearance of Journalists in Djibouti Raises Concerns for Their Safety
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project retweeted
AmaBhungane is deeply concerned by reports that our former colleague, South African journalist Micah Reddy, and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are missing in Djibouti.
Micah is a former amaBhungane journalist and a valued member of the investigative journalism community in South Africa and across the continent.
We join the Committee to Protect Journalists in calling on the Djiboutian authorities to urgently clarify Micah and Kooki’s whereabouts and ensure their safety.
We call for their immediate safe return.
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CPJ is deeply concerned by reports that South African journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer Kooki Mahmoud are missing in Djibouti and urges authorities to immediately clarify their whereabouts and ensure their safety.
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