U.S. pharmaceutical firm Regeneron inflated the average price of its eye care drug Eylea while secretly reimbursing customers’ credit card fees in order to defraud the U.S. government of hundreds of millions of dollars, prosecutors say.

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Ivory continues to be illegally trafficked throughout the European Union despite strict regulations imposed in 2021, ifaw claims.

Investigators found only 9% of advertisements had evidence supporting the legality of the product.

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🇻🇪 Venezuela’s former vice president allegedly embezzled up to $21 billion from state-owned oil and gas firm PDVSA, the nation’s attorney general claims.

Authorities have charged Tareck El Aissami and 53 others in the case with a multitude of crimes: occrp.org/en/daily/18646…

An Ecuadorian criminal network made up of judges, lawyers, and police officers allegedly helped dangerous criminals get out of prison through shady maneuvers.

Authorities charged 14 suspects with influence peddling, extortion, bribery, and other crimes.
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The European Court of Justice decided to annul sanctions on two Russian oligarchs — both considered associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin — for the period between Feb. 22 - and March 23.

Later sanctions issued against the two remain in place.
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Sito Miñanco sigue en la ría: la Policía sitúa a sus hombres alijando un submarino y pilotando narcolanchas, por Víctor Méndez (Narcodiario) en infoLibre dentro de la red periodística de investigación Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project ow.ly/t7WP50RfXJP

Meet @ArzuGeybulla, Azerbaijani journalist with a special focus on the impact of #digitalauthoritarianism on #humanrights & #pressfreedom .

She'll be our speaker at the #BeyondControl conference, 20-21 April in #Berlin & Streaming: dnlb.org/32.

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🇷🇴 Romania’s electronic timber tracking system is supposed to be Europe’s most sophisticated — but truck drivers are undercutting it with a simple trick.

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The PM of Solomon Islands has built at least 8 new houses around the capital city of Honiara, at an estimated cost of at least 1.7 million U.S. dollars.

But with a salary of just tens of thousands of dollars a year, how did he afford it?

With In-depth Solomons: occrp.org/en/investigati…

Two U.S. venture capitalists made over $22 million on an insider trading scheme on the merger of Donald Trump’s media group & Digital World Acquisition Corp.

The brothers pleaded guilty to securities fraud and could face up to 20 years in prison.

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Chilean authorities arrested over 50 suspected members of Los Trinitarios, a transnational drug trafficking group formed in the U.S. and composed mostly of Dominican Republic citizens.

Police found items associated with black magic in a number of raids.

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🇷🇸 Despite multiple rounds of sanctions, evidence suggests Serbian arms dealer Slobodan Tešić keeps finding new ways to sell munitions.

Experts say this would not be possible without the backing of President Aleksandar Vučić.

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🌍 Switzerland’s government violated the human rights of older people by failing to address climate change, a European court ruled this week.

The case was brought by a group of 2,500 elderly Swiss women known as KlimaSeniorinnen.

Read more: occrp.org/en/daily/18647…

Interested in learning more about how to investigate corruption and money laundering?

Today's #SKUP2024 session at 3:30 PM CEST, featuring GIJN executive director Emilia Díaz-Struck and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project's Miranda Patrucic, will provide tips, tools and insights: buff.ly/3PK6zqk

🇬🇧 U.K. authorities are prosecuting companies and individuals they say illegally dumped 100,000 tonnes of waste — including asbestos — on farmland in Staffordshire.

The waste deposited on the farm raised the earth by six to seven meters in height.

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A Panama City court has begun the trial of 27 money laundering suspects linked to law firm Mossack Fonseca — eight years after the #PanamaPapers leak revealed how wealthy customers across the world allegedly concealed their funds through the company.

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Multinational drug traffickers attempted to smuggle 16 tons of cocaine from Latin America into Spain concealed within millimeter-sized boiler fuel pellets.

5 suspected traffickers were arrested after police learned of a 'suspicious shipment of pellets.'
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Sanctioned Belarusian timber is still making its way into EU countries via Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Belarusian Investigative Centre has found.

This is despite increased EU customs controls implemented after OCCRP partners revealed the trend in December 2022.

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The PM of Solomon Islands is modestly paid among world leaders.

But Manasseh Sogavare & his wife have built 8 houses in the last half-decade, estimated to have cost at least $1.7 million USD.

We investigated the PM's real estate wealth with In-depth Solomons: occrp.org/en/investigati…

💣Selling weapons to a warlord.
💣Paying off state officials.
💣Doling out bribes.

Over the years, these allegations landed arms merchant Slobodan Tešić on UN, U.S. & UK blacklists. According to new evidence, the Serbian dealer is as dominant as ever: occrp.org/en/investigati…