May 25 2026
Nomma Zarubina admitted to lying to the FBI in 2021 about her connections to Russia’s top domestic security and counterintelligence agency, FSB. She also admitted to deceiving immigration authorities about her role in a New York-area prostitution ring. A transcript of that hearing, made public on the court docket this week, has peeled back the …
Dec 17 2025
Nepal’s anti-graft body has filed corruption charges against Binesh Munakarmi. He is the head of the Pokhara Regional International Airport Project. The CIAA accuses him of abusing his position and amassing illegal wealth. It also accuses his wife, Purna Keshari Gosai, of holding illicit assets in her name on behalf of a family member. The …
Dec 14 2025
12 journalists, including staff at OCCRP’s member center Meydan TV, have gone on trial in Azerbaijan. Six of the defendants are staff members of the outlet: Ramin Jabrayilzada (Deko), Aynur Ganbarova (Elgunash), Khayala Aghayeva, Aytac Ahmadova (Tapdig), Natig Javadli and Aysel Umudova. All six were arrested in December 2024 amid searches of some of their …
Dec 13 2025
Nastya, now 17, and her daughter, Melek, were recently moved into a Ukrainian mother-and-child center. They will receive housing, food and basic support, activists who have followed the case say. Nastya’s experience was a central case in an investigation published last week byand its partnersand Investigace.cz. The report detailed how hundreds of children were taken …
Dec 13 2025
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) paid tens of millions of hryvnias in bail for five suspects in “Operation Midas” Investigators want to know whether any of the money came from the same “back office’ that allegedly laundered kickbacks and other illicit proceeds. Operation Midas is a 15-month-long probe into an alleged kickback network at state-owned …
Dec 13 2025
Slovenia’s non-profit investigative outlet Oštro is facing a wave of legal and administrative attacks from public officials. Officials accuse the newsroom of violating personal data rules in what press groups describe as an effort to obstruct its reporting. The pressure began in October, when the municipality of Ljutomer filed both a criminal complaint and a …
Dec 12 2025
Bosnian, German and regional police arrested three suspects and seized millions of euros in assets this week. The operation targeted a transnational criminal network involved in multi-tonne cocaine shipments from Colombia to Europe. The suspects were identified as high-value targets residing in Germany and believed to be key figures in the cartel. More than 500 …
Dec 12 2025
OCCRP spoke with a dozen of the Nepalis rescued in recent months. Myanmar’s military authorities have ed, ed and ed some cyber-scam compounds along the Myanmar-Thailand border. “I was not paid my salary. In one punishment, I was hung up by my arms for 18 hours and locked in a cell for three days. When …
Dec 11 2025
Since September 19, the country’s Financial and Economic Analysis Unit has ordered regulators to block accounts belonging to several groups. The freezes coincided with demonstrations against President Daniel Noboa’s plan to eliminate diesel subsidies and approve a controversial mining project. The account freezes were imposed under the , passed in August, which allows authorities to …
Dec 09 2025
Nepal’s top anti-graft body has filed corruption charges against 55 senior officials and a Chinese company. The agency alleges they embezzled millions of dollars during the construction of Pokhara International Airport. The high-profile project was built under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative. A Nepalese consulting firm had determined the project could be …