A movement originating in Ukraine has been spreading globally to systematically deliver climate disinformation under the guise of climate change awareness. Although its main premise — the world ending in 2036 — may seem fringe, its proponents recently secured an audience with Pope Francis and engaged a registered lobbyist to work on their behalf in the US.
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SDS MP Andrej Kosi used to live in a building that was officially categorised as a crop storehouse. The living situation of two MPs, who are residing in buildings with reported useful floor areas smaller than a couple public parking spaces, also remains unclear.
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Disgraced 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.
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Katerina 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.
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Pandora 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.
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In 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.
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New documents reveal the true extent of involvement of the Perenčević brothers in the leading tourism developer on the Croatian island of Lošinj, the Russian pipeline constructor Velesstroy, and other lucrative investments.
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In the last five years the neighboring government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significantly increased its funding of Hungarian national minority’s activities abroad.
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Taxpayers were forced to shoulder some of the burden of salvaging Darko Horvat’s business empire after it collapsed under more than $340 million in debt.
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Substandard protective equipment for COVID-19 is being sold in over a dozen countries, using misleading certificates produced by businesses in the heart of Europe.
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If you want to make money outside the law, forget guns, drugs, alcohol or cigarettes. Trade in illegal pesticides combines high profits with lower risks.
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A Slovenian businessman with investments in gambling — and no background in healthcare — managed in just one day to secure a lucrative contract for millions of dollars in coronavirus protection equipment. It’s unclear what that equipment even is.
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An influential cheerleader for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has pumped over 3.2 million euros into his North Macedonian media network under the guise of questionable advertising purchases.
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How the Inner Circle of a Prominent Croatian Businessman Received Russian Money for Fake Real-Estate Deals.
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Oštro.si obtained documents which enabled us to reconstruct who was supposedly involved in the car smuggling ring in Slovenia and Croatia.
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How a car smuggling ring in Slovenia and Croatia allegedly used a UK company to cheat taxpayers out of millions.
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Compression socks marked with CE marking but failing to fulfil its requirements have been available on the Slovenian market since 2016.
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Scientists say there is no acceptable dose to avoid brain damage. Its use is banned in several European countries. Yet its residues are found in fruit baskets, on dinner plates, and in human urine samples from all over Europe. Now producers are pushing for a renewed EU-approval – perhaps in vain.
Anuška Delić
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The gynaecologist confirmed: the procedure was a success. Mirjana Rajh was done in ten minutes. It was actually not painful, and she really was up and running in no time. Just like she was told. She did not expect any issues.
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The baclofen pump implanted under Blaž’s skin stopped working twice in five years, both times due to corrosion. Both times, the staff at the University Rehabilitation Institute Soča managed to save his life. SynchroMed II pumps have been the subject of numerous recalls, adverse events, court orders, and lawsuits. They also already killed.
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