Robert Denis

Mar 12, 2024 | occrp.org | Robert Denis

Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, admitted to irregularities in donations received by the ruling party in recent years but claimed they fall short of a crime. “There is a problem there,” Pashinyan told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday. “Is it a problem that crossed the line of the criminal code?

Jan 29, 2024 | occrp.org | Kelly Bloss |Robert Denis

German prosecutors brought bribery and corruption charges against four people on Monday, including two former lawmakers suspected of receiving bribes from Azerbaijan in exchange for voting in Baku’s favor at the Council of Europe. Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner were members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and were implicated in what became known as the Azerbaijan Laundromat -- a EU-wide lobbying and money-laundering scheme revealed by OCCRP in 2017.

Feb 27, 2023 | occrp.org | Robert Denis |Kelly Bloss

A Telegram channel began publishing the private Facebook messages and photos of Azerbaijani opposition activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev on Friday, a week after he announced he would no longer drink water as part of his ongoing hunger strike in protest against his detention. The channel, called ‘The Exposure of Bakhtiyar’ in Azerbaijani, has been leaking private messages with intimate photos from Hajiyev’s Facebook account involving several other activists and journalists.