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THE OCCRP NETWORK
🇺🇦 Kyiv Independent: Our Ukrainian member center spoke with soldiers from a brigade who trained in the eastern Donbas region ahead of Kyiv’s much-anticipated counteroffensive.

🇭🇺 Atlatszo: Our Hungarian member center reports on the details of a contract involving the purchase of armored vehicles from a Turkish defense manufacturer. They found that at least one of the deal’s beneficiaries has ties to the Viktor Orbán government.

🇮🇹 IrpiMedia: Our Italian member center reports on how a South Korean warship, which is equipped with Italian-made communication technology, was sold to Myanmar’s junta despite the regime being under sanctions. The story explores the gray areas that sometimes see military equipment sold for humanitarian purposes.

🇷🇺 IStories: After the collapse of the Kakhovskaya dam, our Russian member center reports on how the Russian government failed to help several towns amid mass flooding in Russian-occupied territories.

🇳🇬 Premium Times: Our Nigerian member center summarizes the tenures of every national leader — presidents and dictators — since the country gained independence in 1960.

🇲🇪 MANS: Our Montenegrin member center reports that thousands of citizens were employed by the state during the country’s political campaign season, which will end this week.

🇲🇹 Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation: Malta’s information and data ministry sided with our Maltese partner in a fight over a Freedom of Information request involving a state-owned energy company at the heart of a corruption scandal.

The documents in question, which have been withheld from journalists for more than a year, could shed new light on a wind farm deal linked to a politically connected businessman accused of masterminding the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. 

🇹🇲 Turkmen.News: Our Turkmen member center spoke with Meduza, an award-winning Russian outlet, about what it's like to report from exile about a country where independent journalism is essentially nonexistent.

MORE OCCRP REPORTING

🇧🇷 The Last Investigation of the Journalist Who Wanted to Save the Amazon

Reporters continued the work of British journalist Dom Phillips, who was killed along with his guide Bruno Pereira in Brazil's Amazon while exposing illegal fishing gangs. The case sheds light on the dangers faced by those fighting for the rainforest's survival. 

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ILLICIT MONEY FLOWS NEWS

🇪🇺 European Union leaders have agreed on the framework of a law aimed at expediting authorities’ access to financial information. Under the proposal, law enforcement will be able to obtain central bank account records from a single access point.
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CORRUPTION NEWS

🇪🇺 The European Union proposed lobbying regulations that would establish common standards for politicians in the bloc when it comes to gifts offered by third parties. 

🇧🇷 Brazil’s top court sentenced former president Fernando Collor de Mello to prison for “passive corruption and money laundering” during his time as senator.

ORGANIZED CRIME NEWS

🇮🇹 European authorities arrested 31 people in Italy, Belgium, and Germany as part of a joint operation targeting the 'Ndrangheta crime group. 

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities seized 124 kilograms of cocaine concealed in packages of bananas and mistakenly delivered to a trade company that had neither ordered the cocaine nor the bananas. 

🍌 Fruit & Coke: Drugs are often smuggled in refrigerated containers of fruit because it’s hard for port officials to thoroughly inspect them without the risk of spoiling tons of produce. Read more in this 2019 investigation.

🇧🇷 Brazilian banks will require the country's meat producers to implement environmental protection measures on suppliers who raise cattle in the Amazon.

The move is designed to get major industries to help fight deforestation by leveraging access to lines of credit.

EVENTS & AWARDS

🏆 OCCRP Editor in Chief Miranda Patrucic will receive the Guardian Award from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The prize is given to journalists "whose determination, perseverance and commitment to the truth has contributed significantly to the fight against fraud."

🗓️ Miranda will also be speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a global conference that focuses on human rights and democracy. This year's forum will be held in Oslo, Norway on June 14. 

🗓️ OCCRP Assistant Product Manager Ezana Ćeman will moderate a panel at the Mixer x Point Conference in Sarajevo, BiH with local journalists from from BIRN, IRL Macedonia, and Slidstvo.Info.
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