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The Brazilian Vacations of One of Romania’s Most Powerful Politicians

Costel Comana, 53, was a Romanian millionaire about to be indicted for corrupt business deals in his native country when he hanged himself in the toilet of an Airbus just before the plane landed in Costa Rica. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its Romanian partner, the […]
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28/04/2017
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Building On a Shaky Foundation

It’s no secret that the family of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev likes to buy expensive buildings around the world, although it’s rarely clear where the money comes from. But the history of the US$ 7.3 million house at 39 Popa Soare Street in Bucharest’s old city is even murkier than usual, involving […]
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8/12/2015
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The Forgery That Made Romania’s President Rich

Most of the real estate property owned by the family of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis was obtained as a result of property restitution based on forged documents. Targeted by a criminal investigation in the mid-2000s in the case opened following this fraud, Mr. and Mrs. Iohannis were never indicted. One […]
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3/12/2015
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Consumer Protection Authority Protects Supermarkets

Between ordinary consumers and large retail chains, Romania’s consumer protection authority ANPC chooses to protect the image of supermarkets. Consumers lose every day. They cannot know whether they’ve been tricked even when large retailers are officially fined. Corporations, whose image is systematically protected by the ANPC, keep winning. Ice for […]
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2/11/2015
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Grand Theft Moldova

The bank theft was so outsized and bold that citizens of the Republic of Moldova came out in the streets this past May by the thousands to protest: “We want our billion back!” They used the number — US$ 1 billion – that news accounts reported had gone missing from […]
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27/07/2015
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Schweighofer at the Center of the Illegal Deforestation Scandal in Romania

An investigation by RISE Project reveals that an Austrian-based company has purchased over the past two years massive volumes of wood from controversial local logging firms. Schweighofer, a company controlled by one of the wealthiest families in Austria, is the main purchaser of Romanian wood and has a significant presence […]
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8/06/2015
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The Hunt: Undercover Among Thieves in Denmark

Journalists from Rise Project travelled to Denmark where they infiltrated a criminal group composed of Romanians living in Copenhagen. Going undercover for three weeks, they discovered the criminal group’s strategies of using theft, burglary and identity theft to commit complex financial frauds. The investigation resulted in a documentary produced with […]
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29/04/2015
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The Truth about Crescent-VIDEO

The fortune of now imprisoned Romanian mogul, Dan Voiculescu, is rooted back to the period when communist Romania was doing business with the Crescent group of companies. Voiculescu’s Crescent brokered a significant part of the Romanian industrial exports in the 80s, when the Ceaușescu regime was paying the State’s foreign […]
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2/04/2015
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Romania’s Timis Embroiled in Another Mining Controversy

A Joint Financial Times and OCCRP Investigation Vasile Frank Timis, a businessman whose activities in the mining sector in Romania ignited some of the biggest scandals around mineral resources exploitation in the country, finds himself at the center of a new scandal involving substantial payments related to a mining investment […]
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11/12/2014
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The Battle for Mineral Resources

In March 2012, two Romanians and a Serbian businessman met in a posh restaurant of the Pullman Hotel near downtown Bucharest to heatedly discuss how much to pay to bribe a judge and how to do it without getting caught. One of the men at the table was Aleksandar Andrejević, […]
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11/07/2013
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Taylor Network Back in Business

Until it was shut down last year, the company registration business of New Zealander Ian Taylor was one of the most outrageous examples of the criminal services industry – companies that enable organized crime, terrorists and corrupt government officials to steal money, evade taxes and hide ownership. Now Taylor is […]
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26/03/2013
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A Murderer’s Trail

Vitalie Proca shot an innocent man in Bucharest, Romania (foto:adevarul.ro) In November of 2012, a Mercedes pulled up to a home not far from downtown Bucharest, the capital of Romania.  As the young driver got out of his car, a thin, blonde man in his early 30s emerged from the […]
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26/03/2013
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Offshore Secrecy: The Horsemeat Scanda

It’s now known as the horsemeat scandal – and it has consumers and policy makers unnerved.  How could horsemeat get passed off as beef lasagna and hamburger meat in some of Europe’s largest super market chains?  The scandal has raised questions about the safety and transparency of food networks.   […]
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11/02/2013
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Executive Alleges Bribery at Ericsson

In a courtroom in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, a telecommunications executive and his employer have been fighting a pitched battle to see who is dirtier.  Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunication giant, claims Thomas Lundin, their former general manager in Romania, pilfered $7 million from them. Lundin says the $7 million […]
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26/11/2012


 

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