The human cost on G4S' watch

What is the cost of security companies such as G4S? One way of calculating the harm is counting the dead and injured.

Maja ČakarićJuly 15, 2022G4S, private security network, Abdul Aziz Muhamat, deaths, injuries

Follow the Garbage: Slovenian Backpack Ends Up in Pakistan

A backpack equipped with a tracking device that Oštro dropped off in a waste bin in Moravske Toplice, Slovenia, pinged back its location from a port in Oman, from where it travelled on to Pakistan. The country is the most popular destination for second-hand clothing from the EU.

Follow the GarbageMaja ČakarićJuly 6, 2022odpadki, Saubermacher, Pakistan, Hungary, waste, textile

Gas station dumps plastic packaging into mixed trash

Oštro tested the Slovenian communal waste management system by setting tracking devices on waste items then disposing of them in correct or incorrect ways. A torn backpack travelled all the way to a Croatian port, while workers at a gas station threw separately collected plastic waste into a mixed waste container.

How a broken backpack travelled to a Croatian port

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.

Follow the GarbageMaja ČakarićFebruary 7, 2022zbirni centri, odpadki, smeti

Tyre removed, illegal dumping site cleaned

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.

Follow the GarbageMatej ZwitterFebruary 7, 2022odpadki, inšpektorat, zbirni centri, smeti, sledilna naprava

How we Followed the Garbage

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.

Follow the GarbageMaja ČakarićFebruary 7, 2022odpadki, sledilna naprava, yepzon, novinarji, making of

An Adriatic silo hits the coast of the British Virgin Islands

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.

Pandora papersMašenjka BačićFebruary 1, 2022Jadranska pivovara, Pivovarna Laško, Vranjic, Silos, Marjan Žumer

How Slavonian companies cheated farmers and the state

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.

Pandora papersMašenjka BačićJanuary 26, 2022biogas, Keter, farmers, Slavonija

Tuširanka: Our windy year

Every storm runs out of wind and leaves behind calm waters, especially in the Adriatic. Oštro wishes you smooth sailing in 2022!

TuširankaIzar LunačekDecember 29, 2021naslovnica, Izar Lunaček, 2020, Oštro, Razkrinkavanje

A Caribbean haven for biogas assets

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«.

Unpaid VAT – and off to Belize!

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.

The Fugitive and His Two Medusas

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.

Suspect foreign money flows into booming American tax havens on promise of eternal secrecy

Confidential documents lay bare the inner workings of U.S. trust industry that serves global leaders and the super rich.

As Catholic order fought sex abuse claims, secret trusts devoted to it poured millions into American rental properties

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.

Pandorini dokumenti, Pandora papersICIJOctober 12, 2021Pandora papers, Pandorini dokumenti, documents, eviction

While foreign aid poured in, Jordan’s King Abdullah funnelled $100m through secret companies to buy luxury homes

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.

Putin image-maker’s role in billion-dollar cinema deal hidden offshore

Leaked documents reveal Konstantin Ernst’s secret stake in massive, state-funded privatization deal.

A Tale of Two Brothers and A Croatian Island

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.