2026
“One trillion dollars are paid in bribes annually, while another $2.6 trillion are stolen; all due to corruption.”
“The scale of organized crime is $3.6-$4.8 trillion … 7% of global GDP.”
“Estimated undeclared offshore wealth remains high at around $13.6 trillion (or 9% of global GDP).”
We lead collaborative projects with investigative journalists to publish hard-hitting exposés on criminal and corrupt networks.
We provide a knowledge, tech, and data-rich space where journalists from around the world can safely train and collaborate.
We build new tech and data solutions to detect and expose criminal and corrupt activity in vast quantities of public and leaked data.
We catalyze the fight against organized crime and corruption by sharing findings with trusted partners — activists, policymakers, and the creative industry.
"These are people — journalists — who are so committed to the truth, to democracy, to fairness. They fight to get the truth out when everybody else wants them to shut up and go away. And they do it anyway, at great personal risk."
Drew Sullivan, Co-Founder and Publisher
OCCRP Brazil Editor Eduardo Goulart (far right) in the field investigating how U.S. retirement manager TIAA and a Brazilian sugar giant bought farms from alleged land grabbers.
Fines Levied and Monies Seized
Government Actions
Indictments and Arrests
Official Investigations
Civic Society Reactions
Corporate Actions
High Level Resignations and Sackings
"Collaborative investigative reporting is crucial and is one of the only tools at our disposal to piece together the global drug puzzle."
Paul Radu, Co-Founder
Mexican police work to dismantle drug cartels.
OCCRP’s NarcoFiles project showed how a group of gangs and criminals worked together to feed one of the world’s busiest drug highways: Latin America to Europe.
team members around the world
member centers & regional partners
annual budget
publishing partners
stories and investigations a year
requests fielded by OCCRP ID
entities in OCCRP Aleph
People come to OCCRP to gain a larger understanding of how contemporary organized crime and corruption operate.
OCCRP text and video publications undergo rigorous fact-checking, editorial, and legal reviews to ensure that published information is actionable and lawsuit proof.
This global collaboration offers unprecedented insight into how Cypriot firms have helped Russian oligarchs and billionaires organize — and hide — their wealth over the years.
A system set up to channel dollars from Iraqi oil sales to importers has been exploited by money launderers and militant groups for years. An OCCRP investigation shows how the fraud works in practice.
The largest investigative project of its kind to originate in Latin America, NarcoFiles looks into how a group of gangs and criminals worked together to expand their reach all over the world and feed one of the world's busiest drug highways: Latin America to Europe.
An groundbreaking look into the inner workings of an insidious cyberfraud industry that police officials say costs the public hundreds of billions of dollars.
Deep in Russia’s heartland, at Penal Colony No. 10 in Mordovia, Ukrainian prisoners of war suffered torture and abuse at the hands of a sadistic doctor known only as “Dr. Evil.” Reporters set out to unmask him, eventually identifying him as 34-year-old physician Ilya Sorokin, who is now sanctioned by the EU.
An investigation into how doctors who lose their medical licenses due to major wrongdoing can easily relocate and practice in different countries due to systemic flaws and erratic information-sharing across borders.
This global investigative series reveals who owns real estate in Dubai, including alleged criminals, fugitives, political figures, and sanctioned individuals seeking to stash their money abroad. The project offers the most comprehensive look yet at hidden wealth in the city’s booming property market.
In the aftermath of a “disastrous” European court ruling that struck down an EU requirement that countries make its database of company owners public, we examined the man who brought the lawsuit against Luxembourg’s business registry — and his multiple ties to wealthy Russian business figures.
In the wake of Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine, governments around the world imposed sanctions on many of Putin’s enablers. OCCRP and partners tracked down and catalogued the vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, documenting over $20 billion in assets owned by Russia's rich and powerful.
This collaborative investigation reveals how Western shipowners earned at least $6.3 billion by selling aging tankers that became part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.”
In the world’s only commercial lion-farming industry, centered in South Africa’s Free State, animals are reared in terrible conditions so they can be slaughtered for their bones. Reporters tracked the lion bone supply chain all the way to Laos, where one of the world’s most notorious wildlife trafficking groups has been buying up big cat skeletons for years.
Indonesian nickel giant Harita Group concealed toxic water contamination at its Obi Island operations for over a decade. Internal documents showed the company knew about dangerous chromium levels since 2012, yet failed to act.
This documentary uncovers how a Serbian crime gang used encrypted Sky phones to plan murders, share gruesome photos, and operate with protection from high-ranking officials.
He posed as the Crown Prince of Dubai. She sent him $2.5 million. Then his own partners betrayed him.
OCCRP is a pioneer of collaborative investigative reporting, built on the belief that partnering, rather than competing, is crucial for exposing organized crime and corruption. OCCRP connects local outlets worldwide to report on large datasets, reveal wrongdoing, and hold power to account.
OCCRP believes it takes a network to fight a network.
OCCRP provides independent media outlets with everything they need for collaborative cross-border investigative reporting.
"When we were investigating the central bank governor Raid Salameh, we went as far as we could go inside Lebanon and reached a dead end. We needed a stronger research team and tools to help us find proof. Without OCCRP, we would have gone no further."
Alia Ibrahim
Co-Founder, Daraj
"The help that OCCRP has given us has been very important. It has allowed us to work on journalism projects that in Paraguay are very difficult without security and legal support."
Aldo Benítez
Independent Journalist, Paraguay
We build tools and resources that cut costs and leverage the latest advancements in tech and AI to revolutionize investigative reporting and reach ever larger audiences.
An investigative data management system that helps 25,000+ journalists to search and analyze public and leaked records for evidence of crime and corruption.
“When we received a massive leak of Credit Suisse banking records, OCCRP Aleph was the ideal tool to help the Suisse Secrets project partners sort through the records to find the best stories.”
Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer
Investigative Journalists and Co-Founders, Paper Trail Media
A research service that leverages commercial databases and publicly available but little known open sources to aid investigations.
“The research that OCCRP ID provides is very valuable, especially in countries like Venezuela, where information is not available or has been intentionally censored.”
Anonymous
A journalist in the OCCRP network
Investigative AI is a new tool we are developing to further automate the investigative process and help journalists, civil society, the private sector, and law enforcement detect and disrupt organized crime and corruption at an unprecedented speed and scale.
“OCCRP has built a blueprint for how to investigate high level organized crime and corruption. AI gives us a chance to advance from that blueprint to something massive that works more in the public interest.”
Paul Radu
Co-Founder and Chief of Innovation
OCCRP’s Impact work accelerates the real-world outcomes of investigative reporting by partnering with groups dedicated to protecting democracy and combatting organized crime and corruption.
At the forefront of this work is the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC), an initiative led by OCCRP and Transparency International that connects hard-hitting journalists with skillful civil society advocacy since 2016.
Find out more about GACC
Journalists publish investigations
Journalists + advocates share information
Civil society advocacy + legal submissions
Real world results
“Journalists produce incredible information about how crime and corruption works in the world. GACC serves as a way to get that evidence into the hands of people who can do something with it.”
Alexandra Gillies
Chief of Impact
Director, Global Anti-Corruption Consortium
OCCRP partnered with the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice to launch the world’s first captive insurance company that protects investigative reporting against SLAPPs and legal harassment.
“Reporters Shield is an essential tool for investigative journalism, offering critical support that enables reporters to navigate complex legal landscapes across various jurisdictions.”
Kelly Golnoush Nijnejad
Director, The Tehran Bureau
OCCRP partnered with the Gabo Foundation to connect investigative reporting with the film and television industry and produce informed fiction in the public.
“The opportunity to hear the backstories and details of the most pressing investigations happening around the world right now, directly from the journalists putting their lives on the line in search of the truth, was tremendous.”
Susannah Grant
Screenwriter and Producer, "Erin Brockovich"
OCCRP has experienced remarkable growth over the last few years, but cuts in U.S. public funding have impacted our trajectory. Our priority is to resume growth and further expand our reserves so we can channel funding where it’s needed, particularly to our global network.
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
European Education and Culture Executive Agency
GroundTruth Project
Institute for Nonprofit News
Jed Ringel Foundation
Network of European Foundations
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Sub3 Foundation
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
