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🇷🇺 Views From a Kleptocracy Tour: When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Kremlin-linked kleptocrats. But one year later, there’s been no progress on seizing their frozen assets.

Why? Tricky legal hurdles and an “army” of oligarch enablers.

OCCRP journalists went on a “kleptocracy tour” of London properties linked to allies of Vladimir Putin.
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** 🇸🇰 THE LEGACY OF OUR COLLEAGUE
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This past Tuesday was the fifth anniversary of the murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak, who worked with OCCRP, and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová.

➡️ “The Killing of a Journalist'': A look behind the scenes of OCCRP’s documentary ([link removed]) about Kuciak’s murder –– and the corruption that allowed the accused mastermind of the assassination to operate with impunity for years.

The film, “The Killing of a Journalist,” premiered in Slovakia this week, and should be available to stream by the end of this year.

➡️ The Families: “We will always think of them. We go to the cemetery every day. It cannot be forgotten.”

The parents of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírováspoke to OCCRP ([link removed]) about their grief and their ongoing fight for justice. The businessman accused of organizing the assassination has so far evaded prosecution.
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** THE OCCRP NETWORK
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🇿🇦 Mail & Guardian: Our South African member center reports on whether the finance ministry ([link removed]) will inject more money into Eskom, the country’s notoriously poorly run energy provider, which has been embroiled in corruption scandals.

Eskom is experiencing a massive debt crisis ([link removed]) that has led to electricity cuts around the country, pushing more and more residents to seek power from private companies.

🇲🇰 IRL Macedonia: Our Macedonian member center’s documentary “Bad Blood” is up for the prestigious #AllForJan award, named after our Slovak colleague Ján Kuciak, who was murdered five years ago.

The must-watch documentary ([link removed]) exposes a hospital and a doctor who used an experimental treatment on COVID-19 patients allegedly without their consent.


** OCCRP IN THE HEADLINES
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🇫🇯 VICE Talks w/ OCCRP: Pacific Editor Aubrey Belford spoke with VICE ([link removed]) about his team’s report on the Korean doomsday sect Grace Road Church, which has established an influential presence in Fiji with the help of the government.

🇧🇩 Bangladeshi Politician Lashes Out: After OCCRP exposed Bangladeshi MP Abdus Sobhan Miah’s secret New York City real estate portfolio, a human rights attorney called for a corruption investigation.

Now, Miah is suing the attorney for defamation ([link removed]) . The lawsuit goes as far to claim, without any evidence, that OCCRP is linked to the country’s political opposition.


** MORE CORRUPTION NEWS
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🇺🇸 The United States will extradite former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo ([link removed]) to his home country, where he is suspected of bribery linked to a major corruption scandal.

🇲🇽 Genaro García Luna, once Mexico's security minister, was found guilty of taking millions ([link removed]) of dollars from Mexico's biggest crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel.

García Luna is the highest-ranking Mexican official ever to be tried in the U.S., where he moved after leaving office.

🇮🇳 India’s largest news agency, Asian News International (ANI), routinely bases articles on dubious think tanks ([link removed]) and seemingly non-existent authors, according to a report from the non-profit EU DisinfoLab.

ANI has published hundreds of articles relying on fake sources that further the agenda of the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


** MORE ORGANIZED CRIME NEWS
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🇧🇦 Bosnian authorities have uncovered a fake university diploma ring ([link removed]) that sold fraudulent certificates for more than $30,000 each.

🇰🇵 North Korean hackers stole $1.7 billion of cryptocurrency ([link removed]) last year, some of which may be financing the nation’s army.
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