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New EU Prosecutor’s Office Takes Aim at 50-Billion-Euro-a-Year ‘Carousel Fraud’ Schemes

By Will Neal, OCCRP, 30 November 2020 OCCRP — OCCRP spoke with the head of the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office about the challenges in fighting the widespread — but often-ignored — criminal scheme. “No one’s interested in value-added tax. It’s just not sexy enough.” There’s an edge of… Read More

How ING bank in Poland helped Russians launder money

The Polish unit of the Dutch bank ING, ING Bank Slaski, for years allegedly helped Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs move huge sums of money out of ex-Soviet Union countries, according to the US Treasury’s fraud investigation department, FinCen. FinCen files were leaked to and published by the International Consortium… Read More

Prominent Polish lawyer charged with fraud tied to Idea Bank

Polish prosecutors said on Saturday they had brought fraud charges against a prominent lawyer and former deputy prime minister who is a vocal critic of the government, and prohibited him from leaving Poland or practising law. Prosecutors also denied mistreating Roman Giertych, who fainted during his detention on Thursday and… Read More

16th October 2020

Arrests Target Money-Laundering Service for Cyber Criminals

Twenty people have been arrested as part of an investigation into QQAAZZ, a group that police said had laundered millions on behalf of the world’s most prolific cyber criminals. The arrests, part of a multinational investigation that included police in 15 countries, target a notorious gang of so-called money mules… Read More

22nd September 2020

ING Bank Worked for Russian Money Laundering Network

Over the past decade, ING Bank has carried out billion-dollar transactions for companies from one of the largest Russian money laundering networks ever exposed. This puts the bank in a similar position to Deutsche Bank and Danske Bank, whose involvement in the network has previously been exposed. The German bank… Read More

17th August 2020

US senators threaten Germany’s port town of Sassnitz over Nord Stream 2 gas project

It smells of fried fish, the sun’s reflection is glittering in the water and a few sailboats lazily amble along. It’s still summer vacation in some German states, and here in Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen even more so. Even the mayor of the little town of… Read More

24th July 2020

Argentina confronts its multi-billion dollar offshore wealth problem

By Eli Moskowitz, OCCRP, 23 July 2020 OCCRP – As Argentina has been renegotiating its US$65 billion debt with foreign creditors, it is also grappling with the fact that up to six times that amount is believed to be held by its citizens and companies offshore. Repatriating a portion… Read More

22nd July 2020

Poland’s ex-transport minister arrested in corruption probe

One of Poland’s ex-transport ministers has been arrested in a corruption probe. The former MP, named only as “Sławomir N.”, was detained on suspicion of corruption and operating within an organised crime group, according to Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau. The suspect had also served as head of Ukraine’s highways… Read More

27th May 2020

Poland investigates money laundering at state bank -media

Polish prosecutors have started an investigation into suspected money laundering at a small state-controlled lender BOS Bank, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily said on Tuesday, quoting an unnamed source. The regional prosecutor’s office in Katowice in southern Poland said in an emailed statement to Reuters: “An investigation has been initiated in… Read More

8th May 2020

Gardaí move against fraudsters engaged in Covid-19 scam

Gardaí have discovered evidence that Covid-19 payments are being abused by Dublin-based fraudsters involved in money laundering as a part of a wider European network of criminals. Two men have been arrested as part of a Garda inquiry into “money-mule” bank accounts. This is the use by criminals of third… Read More

24th January 2020

It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.

They made quite a team. One was an Oxford-educated wunderkind who handled the complicated math behind the transactions. The other was a beefy, 6-foot-2 New Zealander with an apparent fondness for Hawaiian shirts, who brought in clients and money. Martin Shields and Paul Mora met in 2004, at the London… Read More

10th January 2020

Polish prosecutor indicts former head of financial regulator

Poland’s state prosecutor has indicted the former head of the country’s financial regulator on corruption charges, in one of the most prominent cases of alleged corruption in the European Union member state in recent years. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor said on Thursday the indictment of Marek Chrzanowski was sent… Read More

13th November 2019

U.S. Software Company Discloses Potential Sanctions Violations

Altair Engineering Inc. may have violated U.S. economic sanctions and export control regulations, the company said in a regulatory filing. The Troy, Mich.-based engineering software company said it discovered the possible violations in May and disclosed them to regulators, according to the company’s latest quarterly financial report, which was… Read More

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