How to launder a few million and hide behind lawyers
Source: YouTube, TV Markiza, Pravda, ICJKSlovak oligarchs are hiding their assets in complicated schemes that use lawyers as nominee owners. The Investigative Centre of Ján Kuciak has proof that these lawyers act as the real owners’ proxies and that, in at least one case, such a scheme was utilized for money laundering.
Documentary about Kuciak murder gets huge applause in Toronto
The film’s main producer, Signe Byrge Sørensen from Final Cut for Real; the director, Matt Sarnecki; Pavla Holcová and Eva Kubániová from investigace.cz.; the two directors of OCCRP, Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu.The documentary The Killing of a Journalist decribes in detail not only the murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend, Martina Kušnírová, but also the dramatic events in Slovakia that followed this horrendous crime.
Bypassing sanctions
Source: Frycz&WichaEU imposed sanctions on selected goods shipped to Russia and Belarus. Few transport companies found a way to transport them anyway, despite restrictions. Border Guard maintains that our borders are shut tight. We have decided to verify that claim, and found a company that agreed to transport restricted wares.
Paweł Reszka: Reporter’s Journal
A destroyed car. Source: Paweł ReszkaNotes from Ukraine written by Paweł Reszka, journalist of “Polityka” magazine, originally posted in Polish on his Facebook account.
NOTES FROM THE REGION
GLOBSEC: Volodymyr Zelensky four times more popular than Putin in CEE

New GLOBSEC report, GLOBSEC Trends 2022, shows that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is four times more popular than Vladimir Putin. On average, 66% of respondents perceive Volodymyr Zelensky positively, compared to only 15% viewing Putin favourably and 78% unfavourably.
Shadow soldiers: who is supporting the Kremlin’s war in CEE

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has activated a broad media and movement network in support of the war effort in Central-Eastern Europe, which not many people are aware of.
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