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More impact for the UK's new property transparency laws, which show the true owner of a luxury apartment lived in by the son of an Azerbaijani public official.

U.S. lawmakers have authorized a crackdown on Captagon, a synthetic drug whose profits are a source of revenue for Syria’s Assad regime.

The law allows the U.S. to sanction those involved in Captagon trade as well as to issue visa bans & block property.
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⚡️NEW story!
🔹Turkish magnate Erdal Aksoy proudly describes himself as a fixer of major business deals between #Turkey and #Azerbaijan . His family is also behind a mystery shell company at the heart of a previous Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project investigation.
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🇬🇧NEW: Who bought a posh London apartment for the son of an Azerbaijan official following a key infrastructure deal?

A transparency law requiring offshore companies with UK property holdings to declare their owners delivered the missing piece of a puzzle occrp.org/en/investigati…

IMPACT: Authorities in Kyrgyzstan intend to reclaim swathes of a city park previously allocated to influential figures by the country’s former regime.

OCCRP & Kloop — our partner recently told to close by a Kyrgyz court — revealed the graft in 2019: occrp.org/en/daily/18683…

NOW HIRING: We’re looking for an investigative data engineer to help us build a next-generation data analysis tool that will help investigative journalist hold power to account.

Apply now for this contract position: occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/…

🎙️After revealing how a faction of the ’Ndrangheta based in Toronto allegedly laundered money through two Canadian banks, our senior reporter Brian Fitzpatrick spoke to Toronto's NEWSTALK1010 about Canada’s struggles to prosecute organized crime groups:

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Kyrgyzstan has begun blocking access to TikTok, extending a government crackdown on social networks and independent media.

Since 2021, President Sadyr Japarov's government has had the authority to block online content without a trial decision.

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🇮🇹 🇨🇦 Canadian police learned a lot about alleged 'Ndrangheta bosses during an $8 million, cross-border investigation with Italian law enforcement.

But quirks in Canada’s legal system make prosecuting organized crime there difficult — some say impossible: occrp.org/en/investigati…

A Colombian designer smuggled handbags made from the skin of protected alligators & pythons into the U.S. to be sold in upscale stores.

Nancy Teresa Gonzalez de Barberi and business partner Mauricio Giraldo persuaded friends & family to act as couriers. occrp.org/en/daily/18679…

NOW HIRING: We’re looking for an investigative data engineer to help us build a next-generation data analysis tool that will help investigative journalist hold power to account.

Apply now for this contract position: occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/…

NOW HIRING: We’re looking for an investigative data engineer to help us build a next-generation data analysis tool that will help investigative journalist hold power to account.

Apply now for this contract position: occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/…

Elephants like 35-year-old Gilgil — a rare “super-tusker” — used to be relatively safe roaming around the Kenyan-Tanzanian border, thanks to a de-facto hunting ban.

That was, until poachers shot Gilgil, followed by two more in recent months. occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/c…

NEW: An alleged 'Ndrangheta leader based in Toronto appears to be able to call the shots for his faction back home in Italy.

Experts say quirks in the Canadian legal system make it difficult to prosecute organized crime groups operating within Canada:
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