Most discarded clothing in Slovenia end up in black containers intended for mixed communal waste. Oštro followed textile waste by equipping it with tracking devices and disposing of it in different locations.
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Oštro’s reporters disposed of various waste items in containers and collection centres across the country. All items were equipped with hidden tracking devices that were emitting their geolocation data. What follows below are some of the more interesting findings.
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We tried to hide the tracking devices in the waste items so well that collection centre workers wouldn’t notice them. We managed to achieve this with some ingenuity but the tracking process did not turn out entirely according to our expectations.
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In 2006. a silo in Vranjic was transferred to a newly established company Žitni terminal owned by offshore companies. Documents from Pandora Papers now reveal who was behind this deal.
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Several Croatian farmers were never paid the silage they produced for biogas plants in the Slavonia region in 2019 due to two intermediary companies. One is now on the verge of bankruptcy and has apparently cheated the state out of many millions of kunas by using fictitious invoices, according to an investigation by the Tax Administration.
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Every storm runs out of wind and leaves behind calm waters, especially in the Adriatic. Oštro wishes you smooth sailing in 2022!
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The Pandora Papers reveal how a group of businessmen from the northeastern Slovenian region of Štajerska moved assets of biogas plants via offshore companies to hide them from creditors. They were built a decade ago by Keter Group, at the time »the leading Slovenian provider of biogas plants«.
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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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Confidential documents lay bare the inner workings of U.S. trust industry that serves global leaders and the super rich.
Leaked files reveal nearly $300 million stashed overseas for the Legion of Christ in wake of Vatican investigation. Millions were invested with a corporate landlord that evicted struggling U.S. tenants during pandemic.
Wealth advisers in Switzerland and the Caribbean sought to protect the identity of a client they referred to as “you know who,” leaked files show.
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Leaked documents reveal Konstantin Ernst’s secret stake in massive, state-funded privatization deal.
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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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Leaked documents reveal how self-styled man of the people Andrej Babis hid his ownership of a $22 million chateau.
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Secret files show sprawling industry of enablers exploiting gaps in anti-money laundering laws.
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The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful.
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A Slovenian businessman convicted of fraud set up shell companies to hide his trail.
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Marko Glinšek fought in court by arguing that his Slovenian company, Lux Factor, was merely a distributor of the cosmetics, and that the real seller was another company called Lux Factor, based in the Seychelles. Leaked documents prove Glinšek lied in court about his control of a Seychelles company to avoid a conviction.
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ICIJ’s largest ever investigation on the offshore world unlocks financial secrets of politicians, billionaires and the global elite.
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