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Investigations and enforcementNetwork studyProcurementUnited States

The Shipment and the Missing Name

Investigators can follow fentanyl from a chemical supplier to a payment and a tested shipment.…

A collection of U.S. dollar banknotes
Money launderingMoving the moneyNetwork studyUnited States

What Happened to the Other Dollars?

A $200 million monthly estimate became one of the most durable numbers in accounts of…

Hassan Nasrallah during a September 2019 interview
Currency exchangeInvestigations and enforcementLebanon and SyriaProfile

Thirty Minutes to Find a Translator

A Lebanese money changer said the allegations were false. Hezbollah’s leader said drugs were forbidden.…

Robert Pelikán, Czech justice minister
EuropeInvestigations and enforcementMoney launderingNetwork study

What Europe’s Hezbollah Cases Actually Decided

On a cold late-November afternoon in 2018, inside the storied corridors of the Palais de Justice in Paris, presiding judge…

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 Salerno on June 29, 2020,…

Port infrastructure at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam
EuropeLogistics and shippingMoving the money

The Cocaine Gates—and the Money That Left by Another Door

When the refrigerated container arrived at the port of Rotterdam in the dead heat of July 2023, its manifest described…

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 checkpoint in early 2015, they…