Investigation ⁽³⁰⁾

A trove of emails shows that Deloitte Cyprus helped firms beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich attempt to skirt tax and disclosure obligations by retroactively transferring assets to British Virgin Islands companies using backdated paperwork.

Water use is an environmental issue with high public interest, and the large-scale extraction of water – particularly in a country facing water scarcity – should be subject to public scrutiny. However, despite repeated attempts, CIReN was not able to get information on major water extractors on the island. In withholding the information, relevant authorities cited personal data-protection and commercial confidentiality.

Cyprus regulates tens of thousands of groundwater abstraction points. But incomplete records, limited inspections and patchy meter data mean authorities still cannot reliably determine how much water is actually being pumped. Meanwhile, many of the island’s aquifers remain under severe pressure.

When the commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy hopeful parents and pregnant surrogates were thrown into chaos. The company’s opaque ownership and operations raise questions over its business practices, and who was responsible for the human suffering left in its wake.

A year-long investigation by Investigate Europe and media partners in 15 countries uncovers a vast network of black-market betting websites operating throughout the continent and beyond.

A string of criminal investigations – and an Interpol Red Notice – have trailed Turkish online betting magnate Fedlan Kılıçaslan as he expands his business across Europe. Now, reporters have found his Poland-registered company promoted gambling sites despite having no license to do so.

On weekends in a laboratory in Cyprus, long after the experiments themselves had ended, Dr. Andreas Ioannides sat alone analyzing brain data that, in his own words, revealed […]

The Agorà application used by the Cypriot member of the European Parliament, Fidias Panayiotou, and his Direct Democracy Cyprus party does not provide the required personal data protection measures, and publicly exposes almost 40,000 users’ personal information, according to an independent audit confirmed by CIReN. 

The Paris Judicial Tribunal is holding the first hearing on criminal charges of aggravated money laundering against Russian businessman Dmitry Klyuev, the alleged ringleader of a massive tax fraud.