Authorities seized at least 20 properties in Nigeria after former pension fund official Abdulrasheed Maina was convicted of money laundering. Reporters have now discovered four additional properties, purchased with “cash in hand.”
Ever since it was pumped by commercial rigs from beneath the shores of Lake Maracaibo over a century ago, oil has been both a blessing and a curse for Venezuela. It has fueled boom times and bust times. It gave rise to an urban middle class — and then an echelon of elites who plundered the nation’s oil wealth, amassing billions as the rest of the country collapsed...
With reporting from Miami to Madrid, Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer unpacks the mechanics of the corrupt loan schemes...
Exiled Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer travels to Florida to look for Carmelo Urdaneta, a former oil ministry official...
An undercover recording from 2017 reveals the financial maneuvers of shadow bankers called upon to launder millions of...
A Taiwanese man touted as a major foreign investor in the Georgian city of Batumi is actually a wanted drug criminal who...
Lixin Group has grown into a major conglomerate with business interests stretching from the Mekong to the Black Sea. But...
Two men who worked with the Trump Organization hold shares in GreenMet, which signed a deal with a company ready to mine...
A trove of documents unveils the inner workings of two apparent scam centers in the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau....
Pravfond, a Russian legal-aid foundation for “compatriots” abroad, has continued to fund people and organizations across the...
For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by...
They looked like different brokers competing for your investment. Underneath, they shared the same staff, the same...
Last month, more than 30 media outlets reported on a global scam operation based in Tbilisi, prompting Georgian authorities...
Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies,...
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With reporting from Miami to Madrid, Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer unpacks the mechanics of the corrupt loan schemes...
Exiled Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer travels to Florida to look for Carmelo Urdaneta, a former oil ministry official...
An undercover recording from 2017 reveals the financial maneuvers of shadow bankers called upon to launder millions of...
Leaked documents show how Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, struck...
Pedro Luis Martin Olivares is a former Venezuelan intelligence chief wanted in the U.S. for drug trafficking. His family has...
The Suisse Secrets leak lays bare the extent of the relationship between Credit Suisse and the politically-connected...
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