The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a not-for-profit, joint program of a number of regional non-profit investigative centers and for profit independent media stretching from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Praise in Columbia Journalism Review for article by Lucy Komisar et alios in Miami Herald 2009 on Alle Stanford Ponzi Scheme (phony certified deposits). For this article, Lucy Komisar later won thef National Headliner Award, second place for Business
WSJ 15.1.14: "The Libor manipulation scandal has ensnared at least 17 financial institutions and 22 individuals in a wide-ranging investigation spanning 11 countries and four continents. So far, it has netted at least $5 billion in penalties, with more on the way. Below, we've taken the most complete list of allegedly involved parties, compiled by WSJ reporters and editors, and mapped an extensive web of 298 reported connections that reveals the depth of the alleged conspiracy. Connections do not represent allegations of wrongdoing. The Journal has attempted to contact every institution and individual mentioned in this graphic. Their comments, if any, are included."
World Bank paper on "...those economic activities and the income derived from them that circumvent or otherwise avoid government regulation, taxation or observation." "The authors find that the driving forces of the shadow economy are an increased burden
The shocking fact at a time of austerity is that EU military expenditure totalled €194 billion in 2010, equivalent to the annual deficits of Greece, Italy and Spain combined. "Despite the clear evidence of the cost of high military spending, military leaders continue to push a distorted and preposterous notion that European Union’s defence cuts threaten the security of Europe’s nations. NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen “has used every occasion to cajole alliance members into investing and collaborating more in defense.” "
"Francesco Forgione a présidé la commission parlementaire anti-Mafia en Italie. Dans un livre qui sort en France chez Actes Sud (1er septembre), il démonte les ramifications européennes de ces organisations criminelles. " "Si, dans le passé, le souci des
"At last, a readable - indeed gripping - book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens" - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia Treasure Islands is published at the start of a seismic shift in thinking about a scandal and a system that has gone almost u
the murky world of online financial transactions where money bounces between accounts from Cyprus to New York in the blink of an eye. "While Liberty Reserve was incorporated outside the United States, federal officials used a provision in the Patriot Act to target the organization and other financial institutions with whom they conducted business. It was the first time the provision had been used to prosecute a virtual currency provider, officials said." "Organized crime and terrorist groups are now financing their operations through these anonymous payment systems,” said Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Trend Micro, a security firm. “The financial sector no longer has a monopoly on moving capital around the world.”
Utlåtande om Hirvonen, Lith & Waldens utredning " Suomen kansainvälistyvä harmaa talous" (EDUSKUNNAN TARKASTUSVALIOKUNNAN JULKAISU 1/2010). "I Finansministeriets publikation 32/2010 behandlas frågan om en utvidgning av flerstegsmodellen för värdepappersf
Posted December 2009. The reach of the newly global market, as Napoleoni argues in her new book, Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality, connects us all to the dark side, regardless of our intentions to be responsible -- and, she says, our deep connec