Mystery Deepens as Second Narco-Sub Washes Ashore in Solomon Islands
For the second time in a year, an abandoned narco-sub has washed ashore in the Solomon Islands, baffling authorities and…
Category: Pacific Investigations
Contents are mainly investigations from the Pacific Region, done by our regional journalists.
EXCLUSIVE: Alleged Rapist Influencer Andrew Tate Got Vanuatu Passport Around Time of 2022 Arrest
The alleged sex trafficker and “king of toxic masculinity” was granted a golden passport by the South Pacific nation while…
Top Australian Criminal Target Zhao Thrived in Fiji Despite High-Level Warnings
Fiji’s former prime minister and police chief publicly associated with Zhao Fugang, a China-born businessman and Communist Party representative, even…
Chinese Communist Party-Backed Businessman in Fiji is a Top Australian Criminal Target
Prominent Fiji-based businessman Zhao Fugang is a trusted advocate for China’s interests in the Pacific. But Australian law enforcement and…
PNG Meth ‘Black Flight’ Suspect Paid Account in Name of Migration Chief: Court Files
by OCCRP and Inside PNG A China-born businesswoman accused of taking part in an audacious plot to fly a light…
China-Born Businesswoman Charged Over Meth Flight Built a Web of Influence in Papua New Guinea
by Julie Badui Owa (Inside PNG), Carmel Pilotti (OCCRP), Kila Wani (Inside PNG), Dan McGarry (OCCRP), and Aubrey Belford (OCCRP), 26…
Hyperchem Solomon Denies Knowledge of Aiyaz’s Meth Dealings
By Charley Piringi Hyperchem Pharmacy (Solomon) Ltd has categorically denied any involvement or knowledge of Aiyaz Mohammed Musa Umarji’s alleged…
Lands flare-up: Minister threatens to ‘slap’ Commissioner of Lands
By Georgina Maka’a & Ofani Eremae LANDS minister Ishmael Avui recently threatened to “slap” the Commissioner of Lands Alan McNeil,…
Fall of a Fijian Trafficker Exposes Previous Government’s Blind Eye to Meth
The imprisonment of a prominent Fijian businessman on drug charges is just one sign of the Pacific island country’s increasing…
Chinese ‘Miracle Water’ Grifters Infiltrated the UN and Bribed Politicians to Build Pacific Dream City
A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into afuture metropolis. They ended up in…