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🇺🇦 Slidstvo.Info: Our Ukrainian member center releases a documentary about journalists who’ve died while covering Russia’s invasion. 

🇳🇬 Premium Times: Our Nigerian member center reports on “Baba Aisha Herbal Medicine,” a popular concoction dubiously marketed as a cure for common diseases, and a regulatory regime that has allowed the product to evade scrutiny. 

🇷🇺 IStories: Our Russian member center reports on why the Kremlin is so concerned about being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force, a global anti-money laundering watchdog. 

🇦🇲 Hetq: Our Armenian member center reports on a proposed housing project for Syrian refugees that never happened due to poor financing planning and political disagreements. 

MORE OCCRP REPORTING

Like many other coastal nations, Sierra Leone designates areas of their shores for artisanal fishing. 

But OCCRP shows that government efforts to protect local fishermen from industrial trawlers are falling short. 
>> Read the full story

After the longtime autocrat of Nakhchivan — an autonomous region often referred to as “Azerbaijan’s North Korea” — resigned amid a political purge, we reveal how his sons began to offload lucrative assets. 

Our latest investigation into the family of Vasif Talibov.

JOURNALISM NEWS

🛡️ Reporters Shield is Accepting Applications: The membership program — which OCCRP helped create —  offers legal support against SLAPPs to media outlets with high editorial standards.
>> Learn more about RS eligibility requirements here

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan: Local journalists and civil society organizations are urging the government to drop a proposed law that closely resembles Russia's controversial “foreign agent” legislation, which targets foreign and local NGOs, including media with funding from abroad.

🇮🇳 India: Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House next week, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have invited policymakers and journalists to a screening of a BBC documentary that he recently banned in India.

CREDIT SUISSE NEWS

💰 Sale Finalized: UBS confirmed that it has acquired scandal-ridden Credit Suisse. The Financial Times reports that five of the most senior Credit Suisse executives have left since the takeover as part of UBS’s efforts to end high-risk behavior. 

CORRUPTION NEWS

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: Former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, was arrested and then released without charge as part of an investigation into her Scottish National Party and donations for a Scottish independence campaign.

🇺🇸 United States: New York state lawmakers amended a new campaign finance law that critics say undermines its intended purpose of curbing the influence of large political donations.

ORGANIZED CRIME NEWS

🇺🇸 United States: The Associated Press found the United States has potentially lost more than $280 billion to COVID-19 relief fund fraud.

🇺🇸 United States: Federal prosecutors in California sentenced two individuals connected to the Nuestra Familia prison gang and the Norteño street gang for drug-trafficking.

🇺🇸 United States: The Los Angeles spoke with OCCRP Co-Founder Paul Radu about Romanian ATM-skimmers operating in North America.

EVENTS & AWARDS

🏆 European Press Prize’s Innovation Award: OCCRP and partners' Russian Asset Tracker project won this prestigious award, which honors reporting teams that experiment with new investigative techniques, digital tools, and storytelling formats in their investigations. 
>> Read our Russian Asset Tracker project 

➡️ Our Ukrainian member center Kyiv Independent also won the European Press Prize's Special Award for its reporting on alleged misconduct in a wing of the International Legion that is overseen by Ukraine’s intelligence.

🗓️ Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference: OCCRP journalists will join two sessions.

➡️ June 24: Drew Sullivan on fighting back against frivolous lawsuits. 
➡️ June 25: OCCRP Publisher Drew Sullivan and North American Editor Kevin Hall speak about investigating organized crime.