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Paul Radu (born 1975–76) [1] is an investigative journalist from Romania. [2] He is the co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which he and co-founder Drew Sullivan received the Special Award by the European Press Prize. [3] [4] He is also one of the cofounders of the Romanian Center for Investigative ...
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a registered name of the Journalism Development Network (JDN), a Maryland-based 501(c)(3) organization. [100] OCCRP is governed by a board of directors: Marina Gorbis, David Boardman, Anders Alexanderson, Sue Gardner, Sanita Jemberga, Tifani Roberts, Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu. [101]
The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (Romanian: Direcția de Investigare a Infracțiunilor de Criminalitate Organizată și Terorism, DIICOT) is a law enforcement agency of the Romanian government tasked with investigating and prosecuting organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrime, financial crimes, and terrorism-related offenses.
During the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania was a totalitarian state, and organized crime was largely controlled by the government. However, the repressive system and the lack of economic and political freedoms created an environment conducive to low-level criminal activities, such as smuggling and corruption, often fueled by informal networks of interests that were, in some ...
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Sentenced to 8 years in prison for abuse of office in a case related to illegal retrocession of lands in Romania's capital. [35] 22 May 2015: Ioan Niculae (Richest man in Romania in April 2014, according to Forbes) 2009 Sentenced to two years and a half imprisonment for illegally financing the Social Democratic Party's presidential campaign in ...
Troika laundromat or ŪkioLeaks [1] is a money laundering scheme organized by Russia's former largest investment bank – Troika Dialog.This scheme allowed the flow of some $4.8 billion of funds from Russian companies and figures into Europe and the US between 2003 and early 2013.
The National Anticorruption Directorate (Romanian: Direcția Națională Anticorupție (DNA)), formerly National Anticorruption Prosecution Office (Romanian: Parchetul Național Anticorupție), is the Romanian agency tasked with preventing, investigating and prosecuting corruption-related offenses (such as bribery, graft, patronage and embezzlement) that caused a material damage to the ...