Tag: organized crime

• Death on the Costa del Sol: How the Double Life of a German Police Informant Ended in Tragedy

  December 23, 2025

  Investigative files shed new light on the dangerous dealings of a German police informant whose life was cut short by a brutal murder. https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/death-on-the-costa-del-sol-how-the-double-life-of-a-german-police-informant-ended-in-tragedy more ›

• How ICIJ traced Huione Group funds to major crypto exchanges

  November 27, 2025

  ICIJ’s trailblazing blockchain analysis has uncovered how cryptocurrency giants Binance and OKX are key conduits of illicit transactions. https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/how-icij-traced-hundreds-of-millions-from-huione-group-to-major-crypto-exchanges/?utm_source=ICIJ&utm_campaign=9a992aae1c-2025.11.26+%7C+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_992ecfdbb2-9a992aae1c-82589145&mc_cid=9a992aae1c&mc_eid=534827c347 more ›

• Rising deaths, fake pills, gang violence: How the EU is struggling to cope with illegal drug problem

  June 5, 2025

  Europe’s emerging drug threats span everything from fake medicines, cocaine busts, and synthetic weed, according to a new report. https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/06/05/rising-deaths-fake-pills-gang-violence-how-the-eu-is-struggling-to-cope-with-illegal-drug- more ›

• The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia

  August 28, 2024

  BBCA two-year BBC investigation into Black Axe – a Nigerian student fraternity which evolved into a dreaded mafia-group – has unearthed new evidence of infiltration of politics, and a scamming… more ›

• Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

  July 28, 2024

  On the edges of society, adolescents navigate the mafias that recruit them and the efforts of police officers, social workers and the few politicians who try to keep them on… more ›

• Dubai Unlocked

  May 15, 2024

  With a reputation for financial secrecy, low taxes, and an ever-expanding spread of valuable real estate, the city is an appealing option for those looking to launder or hide cash.… more ›

• The Captagon Trade’s Legal Pathways to Accountability

  April 25, 2024

  Substantial evidence implicates Syrian regime in captagon trade, causing regional crime, health, security devastation. more ›

• Europe’s massive money laundering and corruption problem; crime gangs exploit fintech, vIBANs and DeFi, Europol warns in report

  December 17, 2023

  EUROPOL: The agency’s chief Catherine De Bolle today released the worrying report which found a massive money laundering corruption problem in Europe. Gangs were also using new methods such as… more ›

• Mafia and Organized Crime in Europe

  December 17, 2023

  It does not stop at the ‘Ndrangheta, Camorra, and Cosa Nostra. In the European Union’s 28 Member States, about five thousand organized crime groups are under investigation according to the… more ›

• Drugs, violence and organized crime in Belgium

  December 17, 2023

  The answer is, of course, cocaine. Antwerp, Europe’s diamond capital, is now better known as a key way station on the drug superhighway into the EU from Panama, Ecuador and… more ›