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Allegations and investigations across U.S. agencies, international press and long-form reporting say members of Venezuela’s state apparatus — especially military officers and some senior officials — h...
The Colombia–Venezuela border is a major enabler of cocaine transit and related illicit economies because of its length, geography and weak enforcement: U.S. and Venezuelan officials acknowledge the 2...
The Pandora Papers showed that Volodymyr Zelenskyy and close associates were beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies—including a stake in the British Virgin Islands-registered Maltex Multicap...
Independent, peer‑reviewed geological surveys that quantify coltan/tantalum concentrations across Venezuela’s Orinoco Mining Arc are scarce; most published figures trace back to Venezuelan government ...
The Pandora Papers show Volodymyr Zelenskyy and people in his close circle were linked to a web of offshore companies — notably a British Virgin Islands entity, Maltex Multicapital Corp — that held fi...
Publicly released evidence tying Venezuelan state actors to organized drug trafficking is substantial but heterogeneous: it includes U.S. indictments and criminal charges, leaked investigative documen...
Investigations into “selling” presidential pardons have surfaced in U.S. reporting, most notably a Justice Department probe in 2020 of an alleged “bribery-for-pardon” or “bribery conspiracy” in which ...
Formation agents — also called company formation agents, nominee incorporation services (NIS) or trust and company service providers — can materially ease the creation, concealment and operation of sh...
, once a rising star of the and powerful party chief, was removed from office after a scandal that linked his inner circle to the murder of British businessman and exposed within the party; he was lat...
The phrase “n asset” can refer either to wealth owned by Russian individuals and entities held abroad or to the large sovereign reserves of that were immobilized after the ; both categories are tracke...
Investigative reporters stitch together corporate registries, regulatory filings, aggregated databases and leaked datasets to map media funding and beneficial owners, leaning heavily on tools like Ope...
Deutsche Bank tells investors it manages political and reputational risk through formal policies — codes of conduct, a reputational-risk framework, environmental and social due diligence, and enterpri...
Hugo Carvajal has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court and has repeatedly signaled willingness to cooperate with prosecutors, but public, authenticated testimony or formally filed documents from Carva...
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to narco‑terrorism, drug trafficking and related weapons charges following his 2023 extradition from Spain, and official Justice ...
U.S. prosecutors and investigative journalists point to a mix of intercepted and covertly recorded communications, leaked prosecutorial and banking documents, and witness testimony—most prominently fr...
Several high‑profile Scottish estates have been held through companies incorporated in Jersey or Guernsey (and other Crown dependencies), including Ardfin, Cluny, Eilean Aigas, Dewar and Raeshaw, and ...
Companies and professional intermediaries used Cyprus and other offshore jurisdictions after 2022 to preserve economic links to Russian assets by shifting ownership into opaque vehicles, exploiting ne...
Available reporting does not state directly that Gennadiy Trukhanov’s wife held Russian citizenship at the time of their marriage; sources focus on Trukhanov’s own alleged Russian passport and wider c...
Company formation agents create shell companies quickly and cheaply and are repeatedly identified in investigations as enablers of money laundering, tax evasion and concealment of assets (see OCCRP an...
Available reporting and industry guides say scammers exploit a wide range of digital-payment rails — person‑to‑person apps (e.g., Zelle, Venmo, Cash App), unregulated “payment service providers” and s...