Tales from the Crypto: How the Baltic states became the hub of money laundering
International criminals used Estonia’s deficient cryptocurrency regulation to turn the small country into a hub of financial crime where over a billion euros have been laundered or defrauded from...
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Driver wanted. Baltic drivers detained for migrant smuggling in Central Europe
All they wanted was fast cash, but what they got were prison terms. In recent years, the number of Lithuanians and Latvians arrested for illegally transporting migrants has risen sharply. This trend is...
View ArticleNarcofiles: Poles at the center of the Dutch narco underworld
Poles in the Netherlands organized the assassination of a journalist— who supported a witness in a brutal mafia trial. We reveal how they ended up at the center of the Dutch underworld Dutch drug...
View ArticleEXILED IN BOSNIA: CORRUPT SLOVAK POLICE OFFICERS FIND COMFORT ABROAD
A new ICJK and BIRN investigation reveals how two foot-soldiers in an internal war going on within the Slovak police are living in exile in Bosnia, why they haven’t been extradited back to Slovakia,...
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NarcoFiles: Meet the man who hacks European seaports for cocaine traffickers
Davy de Valk had a quiet life in Rotterdam. He had a girlfriend, two children and went to the football, where he occasionally got into fights. He lived on social welfare, and spent his nights...
View ArticlePriest Downloads Child Pornography, Church Evacuates Him to Poland
A priest convicted in Lithuania of possessing child pornography has been quietly transferred to Olsztyn, Poland. He is working as a chaplain at a Catholic association. Though church authorities say he...
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Free Kyrgyz 11: As Journalists Go Behind Bars, Kyrgyzstan Enters New Era of...
The authorities have accused Temirov Live, a respected investigative outlet, of inciting mass unrest, and jailed nearly a dozen of its current and former employees. A palpable sense of fear has...
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Exiled in Bosnia: How A Convicted Head Of Slovak Counter-Intelligence Ended...
The former head of the counterintelligence of the Slovak Information Service, Peter Gašparovič, convicted of corruption, fled to Bosnia and Herzegovina before the ruling. He was found in Mostar,...
View ArticleDubai Unlocked: Meet the luxury apartment owner CEE oligarchs and criminals
The “Dubai Unlocked” investigation, recently published by a coalition of international journalists, has shed light on the intricate web of financial secrecy and opulent lifestyles in Dubai. This...
View ArticleTerrorgram Collective Heads Linked to Slovak LGBTQ Bar Shooting Arrested
On September 6, US authorities arrested the leadership of the Terrorgram Collective terrorist group. The defendants, 34-year-old Dallas Humber and 37-year-old Matthew Allison, spent years inciting hate...
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