Khadija Sharife

1 week ago | currencynews.co.za | Khadija Sharife

It was 2021, and Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego was at the peak of his wealth. With an estimated fortune of $15.9bn, he stood among Latin America’s richest men. But a single deal that year, involving a little-known financier and a web of shell companies, would erase nearly 60% of his net worth and force him to delist Grupo Elektra, the business he had built on his grandfather’s legacy.

1 month ago | currencynews.co.za | Khadija Sharife

Defence firm Paramount Group has provided information to a South African anti-corruption agency that is investigating claims that companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) unlawfully obtained intellectual property (IP) developed by South Africa’s arms industry. The probe focuses on employees of at least two defence firms that are suspected of passing military IP to UAE state-owned companies.

Oct 9, 2024 | occrp.org | Khadija Sharife

As bankrupt Steward Health Care faces ongoing Congressional and grand jury probes over the failed management of its hospitals in the United States, OCCRP has found new evidence that Steward’s landlord and a private equity firm, working alongside the hospital chain’s CEO, created deals that severely hamstrung Steward but enriched themselves.

Sep 2, 2024 | occrp.org | Khadija Sharife

For years, it’s been clear that a Pakistani businessman named Shaukat Ali played a key role helping U.S. company Steward Health Care land a massive public contract now at the heart of Malta’s biggest ever corruption scandal. What has been less clear is exactly what he got in exchange.

Jul 1, 2024 | occrp.org | Khadija Sharife |Tom Stocks

CT Group might have supplied false bank documents in another case currently making its way through the U.K. court system. Last year, the company was hired by a U.K. law firm to obtain confidential bank documents which appeared to show how a wealthy Belgian national had misled a court in Jersey over the extent of her fortune amid a family dispute. But when several banks disavowed the files, an English High Court judge said they were probably fakes.