🇷🇸 Despite multiple rounds of sanctions, evidence suggests Serbian arms dealer Slobodan Tešić keeps finding new ways to sell munitions.

Experts say this would not be possible without the backing of President Aleksandar Vučić.

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🌍 Switzerland’s government violated the human rights of older people by failing to address climate change, a European court ruled this week.

The case was brought by a group of 2,500 elderly Swiss women known as KlimaSeniorinnen.

Read more: occrp.org/en/daily/18647…

Interested in learning more about how to investigate corruption and money laundering?

Today's #SKUP2024 session at 3:30 PM CEST, featuring GIJN executive director Emilia Díaz-Struck and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project's Miranda Patrucic, will provide tips, tools and insights: buff.ly/3PK6zqk

🇬🇧 U.K. authorities are prosecuting companies and individuals they say illegally dumped 100,000 tonnes of waste — including asbestos — on farmland in Staffordshire.

The waste deposited on the farm raised the earth by six to seven meters in height.

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A Panama City court has begun the trial of 27 money laundering suspects linked to law firm Mossack Fonseca — eight years after the #PanamaPapers leak revealed how wealthy customers across the world allegedly concealed their funds through the company.

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Multinational drug traffickers attempted to smuggle 16 tons of cocaine from Latin America into Spain concealed within millimeter-sized boiler fuel pellets.

5 suspected traffickers were arrested after police learned of a 'suspicious shipment of pellets.'
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Sanctioned Belarusian timber is still making its way into EU countries via Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Belarusian Investigative Centre has found.

This is despite increased EU customs controls implemented after OCCRP partners revealed the trend in December 2022.

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The PM of Solomon Islands is modestly paid among world leaders.

But Manasseh Sogavare & his wife have built 8 houses in the last half-decade, estimated to have cost at least $1.7 million USD.

We investigated the PM's real estate wealth with In-depth Solomons: occrp.org/en/investigati…

💣Selling weapons to a warlord.
💣Paying off state officials.
💣Doling out bribes.

Over the years, these allegations landed arms merchant Slobodan Tešić on UN, U.S. & UK blacklists. According to new evidence, the Serbian dealer is as dominant as ever: occrp.org/en/investigati…

An Austrian wood panel producer supplies companies including IKEA — but illegally-cut wood may be entering its supply chain.

Drivers at Kronospan’s Romanian transport firm appear to be flouting timber laws by uploading fake photos of their cargo: occrp.org/en/investigati…

🇮🇹 Italian police arrested 62 suspects they suspect to be involved in the forgery of more than six million euros in complex counterfeit banknotes.

The Naples-based organized crime syndicate peddled its notes across the continent.

For more: occrp.org/en/daily/18639…

💰„M.M.P. Consulting“ je bila pred bankrotom, ali je doživela finansijski procvat kada ju je Tešić navodno preuzeo

Počela je da sklapa unosne poslove sa državnom fabrikom za proizvodnju oružja „Prvi partizan“ – poznatom upravo po saradnji sa Tešićem
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#Kyrgyzstan : Authorities release 4 more journalists from anticorruption outlet Temirov Live into house arrest.

CPJ reiterates calls for Kyrgyz authorities to drop charges against all 11 Temirov Live journalists and free the four still held behind bars.

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A leaked WhatsApp chat is among evidence suggesting an infamous blacklisted Serbian arms dealer has quietly taken over a weapons exporter — owned by an ally of his former competitor.

Our latest investigation, with KRIK: occrp.org/en/investigati…

Новые угрозы журналистам: Как их выявлять и предотвращать

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian authorities arrested four people after they discovered a criminal group operating drug laboratories producing over 20 kilograms of amphetamines each month.

The gang shielded its production by utilizing high-end video surveillance drones.

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