Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

The international Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has again implicated Cyprus in investment cases related to the luxury hotel Cap St Georges in Peyia, western Cyprus. The connection ties back to the infamous Magnitsky case, a high-profile tax fraud scandal in Russia.

Credit Suisse bank, still reeling from losing billions of dollars last year, faced a fresh challenge Sunday: allegations from an international investigation that it had handled dirty money for decades.

Stevan Dojcinovic, the editor at Serbia's Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK, was held at the airport in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday morning after being prevented from entering the United Arab Emirates, where he had been scheduled to speak at a major UN anti-corruption event.

Politicians in various European countries have insulted and discredited journalists, populism is on the rise, the press is vilified - and it has led to the creation of an environment in which two journalists were killed in just four months in two European Union states, Malta and Slovakia.

Savvidi's group of companies issued a statement on Tuesday strongly denying claims that he gave hundreds of thousands of euros to Macedonian opponents of the country's proposed name change, including opposition politicians and football hooligans.

Romania's ruling Social Democrat Leader Liviu Dragnea is under investigation by prosecutors in Brazil for allegedly using intermediaries to buy real estate and launder money in the South American country, according to federal prosecutor Carlos Wagner Barbosa Guimaraes.

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BIRN's investigation "Making a Killing" received special recognition - certificate of excellence - at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2017 in Johannesburg on Saturday.

Documents from the so-called Paradise Papers, leaked last year, show that Serbia's Minister for Innovation and Technological Development, Nenad Popovic, has a fortune of least 75 million US dollars, the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK, revealed on Monday.

Azerbaijan's ruling elite ran a secret 2.5 billion euro ($2.9 billion) slush fund to pay off European politicians and launder money, according to an investigation by a group of European newspapers published on Sept. 5.

Following weeks of tension over the future of the Dunarit arms factory, Bulgaria has moved to pay off the arms producer's debts and buy its assets, Economy Minister Emil Karanikolov said on Monday.

He noted that three members of the board of the company have been charged with embezzlement and money laundering and have resigned, putting the future of the firm at risk.