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WATCH: Journalists set out to find a secret airstrip built by narcotraffickers in the Paraguayan wilderness. Here’s what they found. w/ @elsurti
Stanislau Ivashkevich is the 2025 recipient of our Hans Staiger Award, which supports investigative journalism within the @OCCRP network. He led a collaborative investigation that identified nearly 1,000 Russian soldiers, some linked to alleged war crimes, who were secretly…
In the DRC, a Chinese consortium managing a massive highway project handed a $25 million contract to a month-old company. New documents reveal the firm was partially owned by a politician now serving as a gov minister. occrp.org/en/investigati…
Mexico’s Bankaool has aggressively marketed itself as “Mexico’s first digital bank” and signed a partnership with a popular soccer team. But a wiretap linked to the Madre Patria fraud case in Costa Rica raises questions about its 2023 takeover. occrp.org/en/investigati…
One of the main banks in the Indian Ocean island nation of the Seychelles is being targeted in an apparent extortion attempt, with a hacker posting that they have stolen client data for sale on the dark web: occrp.org/en/news/hacker…
A Justin Timberlake concert scheduled for next week in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, has prompted local backlash in the form of an online petition calling for the American pop artist to condemn what it describes as a “dark authoritarian turn” in the country.…

Fans of Justin Timberlake have launched an online petition urging Timberlake to condemn “repression unfolding in Georgia” ahead of his appearance at a scheduled concert in Tbilisi next week hosted as part of a state-backed promotion campaign. occrp.org/en/news/fans-u…