May 2025

With fraud accounting for 41percent of all crimes and remaining the U.K.’s most common offence, the government is set to launch a new strategy to tackle online fraud.

The European Press Prize 2025 recognized journalists across Europe for outstanding work. OCCRP and partners were honored for continuing investigations in Azerbaijan despite arrests.

European authorities dismantle a meth network tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and gangs in Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Key figure in EU-wide VAT fraud scheme turns himself in after months on the run, prosecutors say.

Almost all of Cyprus’ political parties received donations from people or companies connected to the citizen-by-investment scheme, which was halted amid allegations of corruption.

Kyrgyz authorities have detained four current and former members of the investigative outlet Kloop, in a continued crackdown on independent media.

After the recent death of former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica, obituaries around the world called him “the world’s poorest president.” Mujica really did live in a modest house in …

Samsung Display, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Samsung Corporation, stopped purchasing gold, tungsten, and tantalum from Russian suppliers in 2024, according to a report by the newspaper Kommersant citing company …

A previously unknown Russian hacker group that has been given the moniker “Laundry Bear” has spent roughly a year targeting government and commercial entities in the Netherlands and other NATO …

Vladimir Putin has officially thanked North Korean forces for taking part in battles in Russia’s Kursk Region. After months of denying their involvement, Russian state media have done a complete …