International rules requiring shell companies to collect proof of customers’ identities are ignored and flaunted, a study shows. A research team affiliated with the Griffith University Centre for Governance and Public Policy in Australia impersonated customers and solicited more than 3,700 Corporate Service Providers that create and sell shell companies all over the world.
OCCRP reporter Miranda Patrucic has been uninvited at the demand of Montenegrin officials from the 81st annual Rose-Roth seminar, where she was scheduled to speak on fighting corruption. OCCRP editor Drew Sullivan was also denied access, as an attendee.
Instead of a five-day holiday to the lush, tropical US territory in the South Pacific, the 39-year-old has spent more than nine brutal months there caught in an immigration law hell. Experts agree it’s an unprecedented illustration of America’s broken immigration system.
For the past four years, Ashot and Marieta and their six children have been living in a cramped one room in a dormitory in Hrazdan. Marieta is expecting another child in a few weeks. She doesn’t know how they will continue to cope.
Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer for Hermitage Capital (an American managed fund investing in Russia) who tried to investigate the theft of money from the fund.
Here’s a short video of a Yerevan that today only exists in photos.
The government of Armenia has sold the building now housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yerevan to Tango CJSC for a reported $51.272 million.
Earlier, the General Prosecutor's Office had stated that Vardenis Psychoneurologic Boarding House Director Nver Hovhannisyan had been arrested for exploiting 4 patients in his care. As reported previously, the patients were working in the nearby village of Nerkin Shorzha herding livestock belonging to the psychiatric hospital but also to Hovhannisyan himself.
During discussion of the 2011 state budget performance on Thursday, Armenian National Congress (HAK) MP Nikol Pashinyan began his address to the National Assembly with a joke: a man standing in Yerevan's Republic Square was making odd movements when a police officer approached him and asked what he's doing. The man responds that he's fending away crocodiles. The officer remarks that there are no crocodiles, to which the man replies: "That's...
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