Behind the Reporting: Brian Fitzpatrick on drug trafficking, Ecuador, and the president’s family firm
Here is the scene: a confidential prosecution document from Croatia shows two people boasting in a private, encrypted chat that “no one but them” is allowed... Read more.
Cocaine and bananas: Fruit shipments from Ecuador president’s family firm allegedly used to smuggle drugs
An encrypted chat allegedly between Balkan drug traffickers shows them bragging about having exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers... Read more.
Bad Practice: How doctors jump borders to leave troubling pasts behind
In 2018, family physician Ken Shafquat Intikhab Abrahim was reprimanded by Florida’s medical board and banned from prescribing certain pain medications after being... Read more.
‘Be ready in the morning’: Inside the sprawling online industry selling human smuggling services
A silver Toyota minivan pulls into a bank parking lot in Toronto’s west end. Two young Punjabi men step out and start looking around for their client, a... Read more.