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14 Apr, 5 tweets, 4 min read
🏆 Our #TroikaLaundromat and #FraudFactory investigations won #IJ4EU Impact Awards!
#FraudFactory uncovered an international scam that used Facebook ads and an army of multilingual salespeople to defraud people around the world out of millions of dollars. Many of the victims have been left in financial ruin. occrp.org/en/fraud-facto…
#TroikaLaundromat revealed an $8.8 billion network of offshore companies that allowed corrupt politicians and criminals to launder money. occrp.org/en/troikalaund…
"A lot of the work we did with Troika Laundromat would have been impossible without the work previously done by Roman Anin and his team in Russia."

From the acceptance speech of our Lithuanian partner, @s_cerniauskas. #LeaveRomanAninAlone
Congrats to fellow winners:

➡️ Lost in Europe: @Lost_in_EU, @SanneTerlingen, and @VersPersNL

➡️ The Daphne Project: @ArthurBouvart and @FbdnStories

#DaphneCaruanaGalizia

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12 Apr
NEW: We've translated a story Roman Anin and our Russian partner, @istories_media, published in March. It shows that a senior newly-appointed FSB official has ties to figures in organized crime.

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9 Apr
🚨 BREAKING: The Moscow apartment of Roman Anin, editor-in-chief of OCCRP member center @istories_media, is currently being raided by the FSB. /1
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7 Apr
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31 Mar
NEW: Controversial Serbian businessman Stanko Subotić — who's currently suing OCCRP — sold land to French construction giant Vinci for 4x its estimated value.

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