A Russian national was arrested last year in the northern part of Cyprus and extradited to Russia via Turkey on fraud charges
Abolfazl Shamkhani, the son of a political adviser to Iran’s slain Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, invested in an investment company in Cyprus with a Dominica passport obtained under an assumed name. Reporters also found millions in luxury Dubai real estate held by Abofazl and his older brother Hossein Shamkhani, a sanctioned oil magnate, under assumed names and Dominica passports.
Belarusian businessman Yury Chyzh claims that he was behind Cypriot companies while sanctioned by the European Union
Bassam and Raad survived more than 60 hours in freezing waters off Cape Greco in March, after a migrant boat from Lebanon sank – 19 others perished. Based on survivor accounts, interviews, official statements and tracking data, CIReN analysed the rescue response, and the aftermath.
An unprecedented international investigation exposes how doctors who have lost their medical licenses due to serious wrongdoing, including patient harm, can easily relocate and practice in different countries. In Cyprus, a doctor whose medical licenses were revoked in Sweden and Norway, is practicing at a Larnaca clinic. But reporters could only obtain limited data, including in Cyprus, identifying big gaps in information-sharing mechanisms.
Vladimir Plahotniuc is on the run from Moldovan authorities, and reporters discovered he has a fake Mexican passport.
An investigation into leaked data exposes scam call centers whose employees convinced thousands of people to make “investments” on fake trading platforms. A call center in Cyprus was part of an operation based in Israel that appears to have targeted 26,810 individuals around the world.
The OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) team of journalists has uncovered details about the multi-million-dollar betting business of Turkish businessman Halil Falyalı. Falyalı’s former CFO Cemil […]
Casino owners are linked to Belarusian officials, politicians and security officials.
Malta was one of the cogs in what Turkish prosecutors allege was a cross-border illegal online betting operation
