The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) recently announced Bashar al-Assad as its 2024 “Person of the ...

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) recently announced Bashar al-Assad as its 2024 “Person of the ...

Long-Serving Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea Receives “Lifetime Non-Achievement Award” ...

A file discovered at General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian ...

The cases are still rare where organized crime and wholesale corruption get backed up by a repressive, autocratic government. As in Venezuela, North Korea, and Russia, deposed Syrian leader Bashar ...

Medical Properties Trust, the hospital real estate company that rented to Steward, had sued Viceroy Research LLC for making ...

A major donor-funded water plant in the capital of Solomon Islands was supposed to fix a clean water crisis. But people ...

The philosopher and historian Hannah Arendt noted that some of the Nazi party’s most effective leaders were not fanatics or sociopaths, but rather bureaucrats who ruthlessly engaged in murder and ...

The U.S. and U.K. have imposed more sanctions on Georgian officials for violently suppressing protests in Tbilisi and ...

Since the very beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, some of the Kremlin’s fiercest battles have been fought by a lawless private army, its ranks swelled by convicted felons. At its head is ...

It didn’t take long for business to boom after Jean-Francois Eap launched a Vancouver-based start-up selling ultra-secure phones. Now facing charges in France and the U.S., Eap says he didn’t know his ...

Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, has been named the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s 2020 Person of the Year for his role in promoting organized crime and corruption. Elected in ...