Investigations

It was 2015, and news had just broken that Siniša Mali, the powerful mayor of Belgrade, was linked to $6.1 million in luxury real estate on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. He was furious at the media. Authors: Dragana Pećo (KRIK/OCCRP), Stevan Dojčinović (KRIK/OCCRP), and Atanas Tchobanov (BIRD) He admitted to […]

Montenegrin crime boss Radoje Zvicer was scampering back to his Kyiv apartment with his kids to escape a spring rainfall last year when shots rang out. Authors: Dmytro Replianchuk (Slidstvo), Yevheniia Motorevska (Slidstvo), Stevan Dojčinović (OCCRP/KRIK), and Bojana Jovanović (KRIK) Zvicer, who leads Montenegro’s Kavač cocaine-trafficking clan, barely survived the […]

Belarus has given away about $1 billion worth of land to construction companies owned by Serbia’s well-connected Karić family. Authors: Stas Ivashkevich (Belarusian Investigative Center), Olga Ratmirova (Belarusian Investigative Center), Ales Yarashevich (Belarusian Investigative Center), and Bojana Jovanovic (KRIK) When the Minsk City Council announced the winner of an architectural […]

Nikola Petrović, a close friend of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, has done business with Stanko Subotić, a controversial figure with long-standing ties to organized crime. Data from the new OpenLux project reveals that Subotić sold an aviation firm to Petrović for what appears to be a hugely discounted price, through […]

A Cypriot shell firm accused of funnelling bribes on behalf of a notorious Serbian weapons dealer deposited $1.7 million into a secretive trust fund set up for a prominent Saudi, leaked bank records show. Authors: Lawrence Marzouk and Stevan Dojčinović That fund’s Qatari parent company was subsequently fined by regulators […]