Alleged Italian Mobsters Grew Powerful in Toronto. Experts Say Canadian Law Can’t Stop Them.
A fugitive in Italy, Angelo Figliomeni lives free in Canada, where a major organized crime case against him fell apart.
...A fugitive in Italy, Angelo Figliomeni lives free in Canada, where a major organized crime case against him fell apart.
...An investigation into a massive alleged money laundering ring in Singapore has highlighted the problem of dirty money flowing into the financial hub. As questions abound about loose financial regulations, a wealthy businessman who is a “person of interest” in the police probe is nowhere to be found.
Read more: As Singapore Police Probe Money Laundering Ring, a Private Equity Entrepreneur Disappears
Employees of Canadian company Biznis Intel allege they are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars, and cast doubt on the company’s ability to secure the airport.
Read more: Baghdad Airport’s Employees Flag Concerns Over Security Company
Sanctions have complicated Russia’s effort to secure foreign-made military technology. But when it comes to sourcing the inputs for gunpowder — the explosive powering the army’s relentless artillery fire — Moscow can still rely on two Central Asian neighbors who have ramped up exports of cotton pulp, a key ingredient, since the invasion.
Read more: Central Asian Cotton Powers Russia’s Sanctioned Gunpowder Plants
A glitzy development built on an environmentally sensitive Cypriot coast was partly financed by companies owned by figures connected to the notorious Russian tax fraud.
Read more: Glamorous Cyprus Resort’s Investors Linked to Infamous ‘Magnitsky Affair’
The Turkmen government built a state-of-the-art beauty clinic for $51 million. But just before the opening, it was secretly privatized and sold at a huge discount to a company connected to the president’s family.
An investigation by prosecutors — including testimony from a former minister at the center of several corruption scandals — indicates a loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) may have been a key part of the Brazilian construction company’s bribery scheme.
Read more: Central American Development Bank's Role in Guatemala’s Odebrecht Scandal
Every time an ambulance arrives at Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital, the only medical facility in the central part of the Gaza Strip, freelance reporter Wafaa Abu Hajajj holds her breath for a few moments. Could one of her beloved ones be inside this time?
Read more: A Journalist’s Cry from Gaza: “Please Have Mercy on Us”
Leaked documents provide a rare window into a little-known program in which U.S. and other foreign law enforcement agencies work with Colombian counterparts to obtain and ship large quantities of cocaine around the world as part of efforts to infiltrate trafficking gangs.
Read more: Colombian Leak Gives Rare Glimpse Into Secretive World of ‘Controlled’ Drug Deliveries
Prosecutors in the case of a murdered journalist in Croatia suspected a 780,000-euro payment to one of the assassins was payment for the hit, but never established who sent the money. Leaked records reveal the name of the owner of the company behind the payment, and his business connections to the convicted killer.
First Summit in Cartagena, Colombia Introduces “Floodlight: Fiction in the Public Interest”
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