Our global investigative project #DubaiUnlocked reveals how Dubai has opened its doors to Australian drug lords, West African dictators, Hezbollah financiers, and more. With stories published by more than 70 media outlets, the investigation of property ownership in Dubai began with a daunting number: 4,515,313 individual data points. Here’s how OCCRP’s Research & Data team turned a messy stew of fragmented information into a global picture of how the city’s modern high-rises serve as a haven for illicit cash: https://lnkd.in/g4JA_5MY #DubaiUnlocked #UAE #Dubai #realestate #moneylaundering #illictfinance #UAE #Dubai #corruption #followthemoney #DDJ #datajournalism #OSINT
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The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a nonprofit investigative news reporting platform for independent media outlets around the world, publishing more than 100 investigations a year. By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account. OCCRP was founded in 2006 by veteran investigative journalists Paul Radu and Drew Sullivan after they partnered with a number of media outlets in several countries to pursue an investigation. Our follow-the-money journalism is cross-border, collaborative, and networked. In the face of rising costs and growing threats to independent media, OCCRP’s model includes providing a global network of member centers — mostly nonprofit, independent media outlets — with a range of critical resources and tools and allows those covering sensitive topics to work in teams with trusted editors. We also work with more than 40 local, national, and international publishing partners a year reaching millions of readers. We built OCCRP Aleph, an investigative data platform that gives journalists the ability to search and cross-reference more than a billion records to trace criminal connections and patterns and efficiently collaborate across borders. By arming citizens and civil society with information to meaningfully press for justice and change, we envision a world where democracy is strengthened as a result of a more informed citizenry, increased accountability, and sharply higher costs for criminal activity. Sign up for our newsletter to keep up with the latest in global crime and corruption. Subscribe here: bit.ly/2Zd0SI1 To join the fight, become an OCCRP Accomplice and support our work. Donate here: bit.ly/32ERLRD
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🚀 Join OCCRP as a Development Intern and help expand the pool of available resources for fighting crime and corruption worldwide. 📍 Location: Remote 🗓️ Start Date: September, 2024 💵 Stipend: Yes ⏳ Application Deadline: August 6, 2024 You will: • Identify and research donors, prepare fundraising briefs, and assist with grant proposals • Organize engagements and create donor communication • Help process gifts and maintain fundraising data To apply: Email your cover letter, resume, and writing samples to jobs@occrp.org. More info: https://lnkd.in/eVPhHtGW
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NEW: Hidden in plain sight at gas stations, vape shops, and laundromats, crypto ATMs across the U.S. are becoming tools for scammers to funnel hard-to-trace cash into digital wallets. Using various tactics to contact victims – phishing emails, fake job postings, or bogus investment advice – scammers, who are often based overseas, persuade people to convert their cash into crypto using these ordinary-looking ATMs. With inconsistent regulations across states and limited resources to combat financial crimes, crypto ATMs often require minimal identification. In minutes, cash vanishes into the crypto ether, disappearing into mysterious wallets and offshore exchanges. According to CoinATMRadar, there are more than 31,000 crypto ATMs in the US alone, their spread driven by the opportunity for operators to charge high fees per transaction, sometimes up to 20%. The FBI's first national estimate reveals that scams through crypto ATMs resulted in over $120 million in losses in 2023. This figure doesn't touch on the national security and money-laundering risks tied to these elusive transactions. A Financial Trends Analysis report from the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in February identified more than 2,000 crypto transactions tied to human trafficking and child sexual exploitation in 2020 and 2021. Seventeen of those involved crypto ATMs. Our story with Miami Herald: https://lnkd.in/gawEvjrE #Crypto #Scams #FinancialCrime #ATMs #SecurityRisks #Blockchain #Cryptocurrency
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🚀 Join OCCRP as a Development Intern and help expand the pool of available resources for fighting crime and corruption worldwide. 📍 Location: Remote 🗓️ Start Date: September, 2024 💵 Stipend: Yes ⏳ Application Deadline: August 6, 2024 You will: • Identify and research donors, prepare fundraising briefs, and assist with grant proposals • Organize engagements and create donor communication • Help process gifts and maintain fundraising data To apply: Email your cover letter, resume, and writing samples to jobs@occrp.org. More info: https://lnkd.in/eVPhHtGW
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IPYS Venezuela has given first-place honors to our joint investigation that revealed rare details about the murky world of Venezuela’s illicit gold trade. Produced in partnership with Armando.Info and El Correo del Caroní, the story shows how the metal was trafficked into Brazil, destined for the U.S., India, and the United Arab Emirates. It also shows how two alleged smuggling operations concealed the true origins of illicit gold mined in protected indigenous territory. Click here to read it in English: https://lnkd.in/gnTqXr_2 #gold #smuggling #trafficking #Venezuela #indiginous
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Our oceans face immense threats: eight million metric tons of plastic waste annually, 26 million tons of resources illegally fished each year, and numerous endangered species. Companies violate laws, mafias profit from threatened species, and good practices supervisors are often disappeared. OCCRP's South America Editor, Daniela C., will be joining Mongabay Latam’s editor, Michelle C., to hold a master class on 'How to investigate the oceans without drowning in the attempt' at Fundación Gabo’s 2024 Gabo Festival. In this master class, the journalists will reveal the process of investigating oceanic illegality, share tools like satellite monitoring for tracking fishing fleets, and detail the routes of illegal trafficking. https://lnkd.in/eJca4XQa
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🇲🇹 NEW: Steward, a U.S. healthcare company at the center of Malta’s biggest-ever corruption scandal, paid over $7 million to British intelligence firms for work that included covert surveillance and digging up dirt on its critics. One target of a firm hired by Steward was Malta’s former minister of health, who had clashed with Steward over its implementation of a contract to manage and renovate Maltese hospitals. A false story claiming he had accepted a large bribe was planted in the media. Another — a British businessman who ran a financial research company that issued a negative report about the healthcare firm — was surveilled in his home. Payments for the intelligence fees were made via Steward’s division, which was largely funded by Maltese taxpayer money. Steward did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the private intelligence work it funded, but had previously denied wrongdoing in relation to the hospital deal. While the hospital scandal has rocked Malta to its core, Steward’s efforts to silence its critics have remained unreported until now. Read more in our investigation https://lnkd.in/eeBcHzrR #malta #healthcare #hospital #corruption #spy #intelligence #surveillance
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🇪🇬 NEW: A private jet at the center of a mysterious fake gold smuggling case in Zambia belongs to Ibrahim al-Organi, an Egyptian tycoon with close connections to his country’s military and gov’t. Last August, Zambia seized the jet, arrested 10 people, and confiscated $5.7 million in cash, along with five guns and 127 kilograms of fake gold bars. Speculation about the aircraft’s owner has swirled around the case since then. Legal documents obtained by OCCRP show the owner is al-Organi, who has close connections to his country’s military and government. In an affidavit, al-Organi stated that he had no connection with the Egyptians who chartered the flight from Cairo to Lusaka. https://lnkd.in/epzJMeAM #smuggling #privatejet #egypt #zambia
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📣 OCCRP is hosting a live webinar about the domestic and international operations of a pervasive Italian organized crime group on Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 5pm CET. You can join by making a donation to OCCRP. https://lnkd.in/gtFC9VXj #Ndrangheta #italy #mafia
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🎉 The East-West Center has recognized Inside PNG's news editor Sincha Dimara with the “Journalists of Courage and Impact” award. Inside PNG is based in Papua New Guinea and is one of our newest member centers. Congratulations to Sincha! https://lnkd.in/g5hi7zVg