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The Sydney Morning Herald reports on allegations that a popular tiger sanctuary in Thailand is an abusive, exploitive breeding ground for an endangered species, financed by tourist dollars.

Estonia’s financial daily Äripäev uncovers how a Chechen gang scammed real estate investors in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort city of Varna. No one apparently checked that their facilitator was a convicted extortionist and alleged boss of Estonia’s Ingushian mafia.

The latest installment of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s “People of Interest” traces the business dealings of Serbian fugitive Darko Saric, who is suspected of having made millions by running “a massive cocaine cartel.”