The Organized Crime Observatory organization (OCO) announced today the launch of the public stage of the research, calling the public to send information and evidence regarding suspicions of corrupt conduct by high ranked foreign and Greek officials as well as national and foreign businesses in the country. Greece’s latest financial crisis and the widespread accusations…
In March 2015, Igor Kolomoisky, a well-known Ukrainian oligarch, compared his country’s privatization of industry process as a criminal conspiracy to rob billions of dollars from the State. Quoted in the Financial Times, Kolomoisky said Ukraine should not receive money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “until all “illegally” privatised property had been restored to…
Nicolas Giannakopoulos et l’OCO réfutent totalement les informations publiées par le journal Le Temps, dans son édition papier du 17 juin 2015, selon laquelle l’OCO aurait été payé par des représentant du gouvernement kazakh. L’OCO, un organisme a but non-lucratif, n’a pas perçu d’honoraires en ce qui concerne les rapports qu’il réalise et continuera à…
Geneva, the 27th of April – The Organized Crime Observatory (OCO) released a special report on organized crime and public corruption in Ukraine, featuring assessments and trends based on exclusive statistics collected in the field. “Ukraine and the EU: Overcoming criminal exploitation toward a modern democracy?” is the result of an extensive research, conducted from…
“In October 2013, Italy captured international headlines when a boat carrying hundreds of asylum seekers sunk off its coast, killing over 360 people. The incident reflects the tremendous increase in African migration to Europe in recent years, in part due to the Arab Spring. While Africans have been migrating to Europe for decades, the instability…
HSBC’s Swiss bank concealed large sums of money for people facing allegations of serious wrongdoing, including drug-running, corruption and money laundering, leaked files reveal. Despite being legally obliged since 1998 to make special checks on high-risk customers, the bank provided accounts for clients implicated in six notorious scandals in Africa, including Kenya’s biggest corruption case,…
President Sergio Mattarella called on Italian lawmakers to make fighting organized crime and corruption a priority, using his first speech as head of state to highlight two of the country’s most persistent economic and social scourges. “Corruption has reached an unacceptable level,” said Mattarella, 73, who spoke after having taken his oath of office before…
A publication from IOS Press was released in 2014, by numerous academics from the Institute of Law and Technology (Autonomous University of Barcelona), the Center for Applied Social Reaserch (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and research centers such as Vicomtech-IK4 (San Sebastian), S21sec (Pamplona) and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa). Its title: “Fighting organized crime…
Africa loses at least $50 billion a year to illicit practices like tax fraud, corruption and organized crime, a worrying situation that is hurting the continent’s economies, a UN-mandated study group warned Sunday. Illicit financial flows — which range from international corporations dodging taxes to the trafficking of weapons and minerals — are a barrier…
Shortly before 11 a.m. on the last Saturday in May, a heavily laden white Mitsubishi truck pulled into the Fuji Motors East Africa car dealership in an industrial neighborhood on the northern edge of Mombasa. The truck’s cargo was not “household equipment” as declared, but 228 elephant tusks and 74 ivory pieces weighing a total of…
