Two girls from occupied Kherson were taken far from home and kept for months in prison-like conditions — until journalists helped them flee. Hundreds or perhaps thousands more Ukrainian children remain in Russian hands.
Nastia Mitrofanova and Masha Senchuk, two Ukrainian girls who were held against their will in occupied territory. (Photo: Slidstvo.Info)
Read more: How Two Ukrainian Teenagers Escaped Russian Captivity
A leaked report sheds light on the source of a mysterious media attack on the Serbian president’s political rival.
Read more: Israeli Disinformation Expert Linked to Faked Bank Accounts in Serbian Smear Campaign
OCCRP Publisher Drew Sullivan will speak with veteran crime reporter Stevan Dojčinović about his experience investigating organized crime groups in a live OCCRP Discussion on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 16:00 CET/10:00 EDT.
Read more: How the New Mafia Really Works: OCCRP Journalists Discuss Organized Crime
Prosecutors in Lebanon and Europe are investigating the longtime Banque du Liban governor, Riad Salame, for suspected money laundering and corruption. He’s also been blamed for the country’s financial crisis. But Salame claims he is a scapegoat.
(Photo: James O’Brien/OCCRP)
Read more: Who Is Riad Salame? Lebanon’s Central Bank Chief Accused of Embezzlement
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground — not through outright repression, but through market distortion and regulatory capture. Can anything be done?
A man adjusts Hungarian flags before a pro-Orban protest in Budapest, in March 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo)
Read more: ‘They Tried to Frame Us’: New Assault on Hungarian Journalists Highlights Media Freedom Crisis in...
Hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques, poring over apartment listing sites, satellite images, and tourist photos posted online, to track down and kill the leader of a rival clan as he hid out in Greece.
Read more: How a Montenegrin Gang Used Open-Source Intelligence to Kill
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply concerned that if this bill is enacted, it could be used to crack down on independent media and civil society.
Protests on March 7 outside Parliament in Tbilisi while lawmakers discuss the proposed foreign agent bill. The signs say, “No Russian influence in Georgia!” and “Georgia will not become Russia!” (Photo: OCCRP)
Read more: OCCRP Condemns Proposed “Foreign Agent” Bill in Georgia
A Manila-based multinational paid millions of dollars into the offshore account of an Australian consultant around the time it won lucrative contracts to operate Papua New Guinea’s biggest ports. Senior PNG Ports officials — including one who was recently killed — then received money and apparent benefits.
Read more: Murdered Papua New Guinea Ports Official Benefitted From Suspect Offshore Payments
Award-winning Investigative Journalist Will Lead Editorial Operations of Global Newsroom.
Editor Anna Babinets, Investigative Reporter Elena Loginova, and Editor Miranda Patrucic discuss financial reports and offshores.
(Photo: Gabriel Diamond)
Read more: OCCRP Appoints Miranda Patrucic as New Editor in Chief
OCCRP joined the Londongrad Kleptocracy Tour, organized by campaigners trying to get dirty money out of the U.K.’s capital, to ask what measures are still needed to fight kleptocracy and corruption.
Read more: One Year on From Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, How is the U.K.’s Fight Against Kleptocratic Wealth...
