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How to launder a few million and hide behind lawyers

Source: YouTube, TV Markiza, Pravda, ICJK

Slovak 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.

Tomáš Madleňák

19.05.2022

Documentary about Kuciak murder gets huge applause in Toronto

corr, corruption, investigative journalism, Jan Kuciak

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.

Eva Kubániová

14.05.2022

Source: rsf.org/en/index

Situation in Visegrad Four countries reflects broader trends – as Reporters Without Borders (RSF) note in World Press Freedom Index 2022, whole European Union is caught between two extremes.

VSquare

05.05.2022

Russian Asset Tracker: Visegrad connections

fina, oligarchs, Vladimir Putin

Source: James O'Brien / OCCRP

For almost a month, as a part of a joint investigation carried out by OCCRP and journalists from several media outlets, we have been examining where and how the assets of Russian oligarchs are hidden in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

VSquare

13.04.2022

Czech and Slovak QAnon groups have incorporated Ukraine into conspiratorial worldview

War in Ukraine

Source: ORF, Telegram/Víťazstvo svetla, ICJK

Now, more than a month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the barrage of disinformation about the conflict is intensifying. Pretexts for the war and pro-Kremlin narratives, however, are not being spread by only well-known faces and websites from the Slovak disinformation scene.

VSquare

04.04.2022

Russo-Ukrainian War: Background and Future Perspectives

Vladimir Putin, War in Ukraine

Modern,Military,Tanks,Silhouette,In,Front,Of,Ukraine,Flag.,Political

Source: Lervik Design / Shutterstock

The Russian aggression against Ukraine has caused a chain of reactions that is fundamentally transforming Europe and the world, although we are not yet able to fully capture its effects.

VSquare

04.03.2022

RSF: The dismal state of press freedom in V4 countries

media, media freedom

Scratched,Paper,Texture,,Old,Newspaper,Background

Source: Here/Shutterstock

In three of the Visegrad Four countries – Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – press freedom is in decline, according to the World Press Freedom Index 2021 published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

VSquare

21.04.2021

Russian and Chinese vaccine diplomacy at work

Chinese influence, disinformation, health care, Russia

Graphics by Lenka Matoušková

Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic are once again showing disregard for European solidarity, negotiating deals for Eastern vaccines, even at the price of sparking government crises.

Eva Kubániová

Peter Kapitán

Gabriella Horn

18.03.2021

Impérium AB – Database of companies and subsidies of Andrej Babiš

Andrej Babiš, finance, media

Graphics by Lenka Matoušková

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš embodies one of the most significant conflicts of interest in the modern political history of the Czech Republic.

VSquare

15.03.2021

Szczerek: Three decades of the Visegrad Group

EU, history

Szczyt Szefow Rzadow Panstw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej z okazji 30-lecia Wspolpracy Wyszehradzkiej

Meeting on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the 1991 Visegrad Declaration with the participation of the President of the European Council. From left: Igor Matovic, Charles Michel, Mateusz Morawiecki, Andrej Babis, Victor Orban. Cracow, Poland, February 17, 2021. Source: Filip Radwanski / FORUM

Visegrad is a slightly ephemeral entity, a quantum-like model and Schrödinger’s cat in one – sometimes it exists, sometimes it does not – it’s hard to tell, really.

VSquare

19.02.2021

Czech Republic

How to launder a few million and hide behind lawyers

Documentary about Kuciak murder gets huge applause in Toronto

RSF World Press Freedom Index 2022: Widening divide

Russian Asset Tracker: Visegrad connections

Czech and Slovak QAnon groups have incorporated Ukraine into conspiratorial worldview

Russo-Ukrainian War: Background and Future Perspectives

RSF: The dismal state of press freedom in V4 countries

Russian and Chinese vaccine diplomacy at work

Impérium AB – Database of companies and subsidies of Andrej Babiš

Szczerek: Three decades of the Visegrad Group

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