Corruption
OCCRP – EU Corruption: Greek Prosecutor Summoned for Questioning Over Her Novartis Probe
EU has become a hot-house for corruption as the political class controls the courts Read Here Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Ashwath Hegde
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OCCRP European Regulators Failed to Spot Suspicious Money Flooding Through Latvia’s Banks
European regulators gave the green light for international banks to handle billions of dollars that flowed from the former Soviet Union through Latvia’s banking sector, even as thousands of these transactions were being red-flagged to […]
Corruption
OCCRP: Donation to Latvia’s Biggest Party (Social Democrats) Linked to Laundromat
This is the political culture that the Social Democrats created in the EU, not that any of the other centrist parties are much different. Read here Harmony has been the biggest party in Latvia’s parliament […]
Corruption
OCCRP: Ukrainian Graft Investigators to be Investigated for Graft
Ukraine is making rapid progress in adopting EU policy. Once the investigators investigating the corrupt investigators investigating graft in the government are found to be corrupt then becoming a full-fledged EU member is merely a […]
EU politics
OCCRP – Belarus: Equipping a Dictator
The EU has funded surveillance and patrol equipment worth more than 2 million euros for the benefit of Belarusian border authorities implicated in rights abuses, a Danwatch and OCCRP probe into EU-funded tenders and contracts […]
EU politics
OCCRP – Report: German Real Estate is a Money Laundering Haven
Weak laws and regulations in Germany allow billions of euros of dirty cash to be funneled into its real estate market, turning the country into a hotbed for money laundering, according to a Transparency International […]
Corruption
OCCRP Ukraine – President Poroshenko’s Lawyers Go on the Defensive
What else should one expect from the EU’s democratic protege? Integrity, honesty, courage? If it does not exist in the EU political elite, why in the Ukraine? Read here
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OCCRP: Second Slovak Interior Minister Quits Over Jan Kuciak’s Murder
It’s a model that repeats itself in the Eastern EU nations: Corrupt governments, providing tax-attractive investment for Western European companies (Slovakia is one enormous German car factory), banks, retailers, etc., sending cheap labour to the […]
Corruption
OCCRP: Gold for visas
For refugees and poor migrants, travel can be terrifying, with no guarantee of a welcome at the end. For the one percent, it’s a different story, as a growing number of cash-strapped countries invite them […]
Corruption
OCCRP – Macedonia: ex Anti-Graft Chief in Corruption Scandal
This land seems to be acquiring all the qualities necessary to join the EU. All they have to learn to is to create laws that make corruption legal, then we have number 29. They can […]