At least five Slovenian portals which are sources of disinformation or disseminate disinformation earned advertising euros through the Google AdSense platform in 2021 and 2022, Oštro can reveal. Advertisers could block advertising on disinformation portals, but they do not.
Read MoreIn Slovenia, no one except the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption knows what assets high-ranking officials own. They cannot judge whether they are gaining illicitly from holding public office. This is why Oštro has decided to turn the light on for the public and track politicians' assets in the Asset Detector.
Read MoreDisgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner personally funded an ethnically divisive disinformation campaign in Trinidad and Tobago designed by an election engineering firm to discourage black Trinidadians from voting.
Read MoreKaterina Tikhonova, the daughter of the Russian president, visited Slovenia at least five times between 2014 and 2019. Even though the visit was not by a foreign leader but by his daughter, the authorities should have been notified of visits by Tikhonova in advance. It is not clear if they were.
Read MoreWhat is the cost of security companies such as G4S? One way of calculating the harm is counting the dead and injured.
Read MoreA backpack equipped with a tracking device that Oštro dropped off in a waste bin in Moravske Toplice, Slovenia, pinged back its location from a port in Oman, from where it travelled on to Pakistan. The country is the most popular destination for second-hand clothing from the EU.
Read MoreOštro tested the Slovenian communal waste management system by setting tracking devices on waste items then disposing of them in correct or incorrect ways. A torn backpack travelled all the way to a Croatian port, while workers at a gas station threw separately collected plastic waste into a mixed waste container.
Read MoreMost discarded clothing in Slovenia end up in black containers intended for mixed communal waste. Oštro followed textile waste by equipping it with tracking devices and disposing of it in different locations.
Read MoreOštro’s reporters disposed of various waste items in containers and collection centres across the country. All items were equipped with hidden tracking devices that were emitting their geolocation data. What follows below are some of the more interesting findings.
Read MoreWe tried to hide the tracking devices in the waste items so well that collection centre workers wouldn’t notice them. We managed to achieve this with some ingenuity but the tracking process did not turn out entirely according to our expectations.
Read MoreIn 2006. a silo in Vranjic was transferred to a newly established company Žitni terminal owned by offshore companies. Documents from Pandora Papers now reveal who was behind this deal.
Read MoreSeveral Croatian farmers were never paid the silage they produced for biogas plants in the Slavonia region in 2019 due to two intermediary companies. One is now on the verge of bankruptcy and has apparently cheated the state out of many millions of kunas by using fictitious invoices, according to an investigation by the Tax Administration.
Read MoreEvery storm runs out of wind and leaves behind calm waters, especially in the Adriatic. Oštro wishes you smooth sailing in 2022!
Read MoreThe Pandora Papers reveal how a group of businessmen from the northeastern Slovenian region of Štajerska moved assets of biogas plants via offshore companies to hide them from creditors. They were built a decade ago by Keter Group, at the time »the leading Slovenian provider of biogas plants«.
Read MorePandora Papers reveal the secret of a yet another entrepreneur, connected to tax advisor Rok Snežič. His friend Roman Stropnik namely the business of a Slovene company Poštajner which had ’issues’ with paying tax to an eponymous company in the tax haven of Belize.
Read MoreIn 2014, former car salesman Dragan Đurić was convicted of tax evasion and business fraud. He abscond to Bosnia and Herzegovina and, as revealed by the Pandora Papers, continued to operate from there in secret via a company from the Seychelles. Đurić remains a fugitive.
Read MoreConfidential documents lay bare the inner workings of U.S. trust industry that serves global leaders and the super rich.
Leaked files reveal nearly $300 million stashed overseas for the Legion of Christ in wake of Vatican investigation. Millions were invested with a corporate landlord that evicted struggling U.S. tenants during pandemic.
Wealth advisers in Switzerland and the Caribbean sought to protect the identity of a client they referred to as “you know who,” leaked files show.
Read MoreLeaked documents reveal Konstantin Ernst’s secret stake in massive, state-funded privatization deal.
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