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JUST OUT: 🔴 Trump’s Anti-Corruption Rollback: Defanging Laws and Making Billions
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Mekin Büyükdeniz was recovering from a recent assassination attempt when a hitman infiltrated his hospital ward in a highly coordinated early-morning attack and fatally shot him.
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When U.S. voters head to the polls on November 3 for midterm elections, the future of efforts to contain corruption at home and abroad will be at stake.
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Lorenzo Crippa, a political economist who measures how corruption enforcement affects illicit financial flows and corrupt behavior by companies, discusses the effects of the United States’ new approach to combating corruption around the globe under President Donald Trump.
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A 23-year-old founded two major educational ventures in Kazakhstan, including Qazaq AI Research University, that went on to receive significant state support.
OCCRP's Deputy Editor in Chief Julia Wallace explains how reporters found that this youthful businessman is actually the grand-nephew of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Read the full story here: occrp.org/en/scoop/a-23-year…
At least five large baobabs have been illegally uprooted in South Africa's Limpopo Province to be exported to Georgia. A criminal investigation is ongoing.
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OCCRP Latin America Editor Nathan Jaccard (@NJaccard) joined the latest episode of The Underworld Podcast (@Underworld_Pod) “Colombia’s Narco-Influencer Showdown.” Drawing on his reporting, the episode explores the story of Naim Pérez, who was known online as “Bendito Menor.”
As a commander in the Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (ACSN), he built a massive social media following by turning life inside an illegal armed group into viral content before he was killed in a government raid. However, the content continued even after his death.
Listen to the episode on all podcast platforms or Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=YUGiEm3H…
Iraqi MP Gets Six Years, $20M Fine for Oil Graft
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Lawyers for alleged drug capo Sebastián Marset have challenged the DEA’s search of a phone that was seized in uncertain circumstances in Bolivia. Marset’s defense team argues the phone only became part of the court records months after it was already seized and data extracted.
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Just hours after the Supreme Court voided his passport, the defeated presidential candidate fled across the Argentine border to evade mounting fraud and money laundering probes. He landed in the United States.
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China Sentences Ex Anti-Graft Official to Suspended Death for Bribery
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Billionaire fishing oligarch Vitaly Orlov is claiming damages for defamation in a U.K. court from The Barents Observer, a Norwegian publication. The tycoon alleges the outlet's reports on E.U. sanctions on his fishing company caused “serious harm” to his reputation.
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Sunday’s election marked a turning point in Serbia, with the ruling SNS party of Aleksandar Vučić handed a resounding defeat by a student movement that capitalized on mounting public anger over years of corruption and criminality.
In this interview, @KRIKrs editor-in-chief Stevan Dojčinović @StevanOCCRP reflects on what the last few days have meant for him, how the students did it, and what challenges lie ahead. As he spoke with OCCRP late at night, the sounds of celebration filtered in from the street:
Read the full interview here: occrp.org/en/feature/is-this…
Stevan Dojčinović is the editor-in-chief of KRIK, which has spent over a decade exposing corruption and criminality that permeated the Serbian state. Here he reflects on how a student-led movement defeated the country’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić in Sunday’s election and what challenges lie ahead.
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U.S. Court Sentences Lender to 15 Years over $76M Ponzi Scheme
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Dismissed two years ago as schoolkids skipping class, Serbia’s student-led opposition channeled public fury over state corruption into a historic election landslide, forcing President Aleksandar Vučić into an unprecedented concession.
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FBI Cybercrime Operation Nets Nine Arrests in Nigeria
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