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Container handling at Northport, Port Klang
Case fileLebanon and SyriaLogistics and shipping

The King of Captagon: The Shipment Stopped, the Network Survived

At Port Klang on 15 March 2021, Malaysian customs officers unsealed three industrial shipping containers…

View of the port of Salerno
Case fileEuropeLebanon and SyriaLogistics and shipping

Salerno, 2020: Eighty-Four Million Pills and the Wrong Name

When Italian customs officers pried open three commercial cargo containers inside the sun-baked port of…

Entrance of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig
Case fileEuropeInvestigations and enforcementMoney laundering

Germany Followed the Cash. Then It Followed the Files.

When German customs investigators unzipped the luggage of two Lebanese travelers during a routine airport…

Burgas Airport departure terminal and apron, photographed in June 2012.
Case fileEuropeInvestigations and enforcementProfile

The Name That Survived the Blast

Amid the smoking debris scattered across the parking lot of Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, on the afternoon of July…

Memorial clock at Pasteur station displaying 09:53 and the date 18 July 1994.
Case fileInvestigations and enforcementNetwork studyTriple Frontier

Calls Across the Border

In the tense, humid winter of July 1994, two fleeting telephone calls bridged the distance between the transit hubs of…

Burgas Airport departure terminal and control tower, photographed before the attack.
Case fileEuropeInvestigations and enforcementLebanon and SyriaMoving the money

Before the Blast, a Bill

The charred laminate of a fake Michigan driver’s license, bearing the fabricated name Jacque Felipe Martin, was among the first…