Swedish politicians will urge the European Union to review its sanctions policy on Syria after they learned from a recent investigation by OCCRP and SIRAJ that Swedish-made trucks were being used by the Syrian Armed Forces in internal war fronts.
Six months after the fraud was exposed and Romanian authorities promised to stop it, wood processing companies continue to cheat Europe’s most sophisticated timber tracing system, allowing illegally harvested wood to enter the legal market.
The European Parliament voted in favor of a resolution calling for the EU to stop funding the country of Georgia and sanction individuals responsible for “undermining democracy” there, while personally singling out the influential founder of the country’s ruling party.