On 14 September, an article from OCCRP said that a year after a massive shipment of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, an OCCRP investigation has settled one of the biggest lingering questions: who actually owned the cargo. A trail of documents reveals a decades-old chemical-trading network controlled by Ukrainians, hidden behind a veil of proxies and shell firms, and offshore service providers in Cyprus and the UK facilitated the network’s operations.

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