Nominate Your Pick for Most Corrupt Person of the Year
OCCRP recently opened nominations for its annual Person of the Year award and has been flooded with worthy candidates. There’s still time if you have a suggestion.
OCCRP Live Event: Journalists Reveal How They Tracked the Offshore Wealth of Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salame
Rumors of Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salame’s offshore wealth have swirled around Beirut for years. In 2020, OCCRP and Daraj.com revealed almost $100 million in overseas assets that Salame owned through a network of companies.
OCCRP Expands Geographic Reach By Hiring Kevin G. Hall as First North America Editor
OCCRP is expanding editorial operations into the U.S. and Canada and has named award-winning investigative journalist Kevin G. Hall as its first North America editor. Hall will be based in Washington, D.C., and will lead OCCRP investigations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. He will also work with more than 40 editors around the world on cross-border investigations and build collaborations and partnerships with key North American media outlets.
Kevin G. Hall.
Independent Media in Russia Under Attack as IStories Branded “Foreign Agent”
Russia’s government on Friday named IStories Media a “foreign agent,” ramping up a campaign that has seen some of the country’s top independent media outlets effectively blacklisted this year.
The staff of IStories. Credit: Istories.
Webinar with OCCRP’s Africa Team: How Illicit Finance Fuels Corruption and Environmental Destruction on the Continent
Grand corruption in Gambia. State capture in South Africa. Rosewood plunder in Namibia. Azerbaijani weapon deals in Congo. A secret banking network in Angola.
Pressure on Independent Media Reflects Investigative Journalism’s Growing Impact
On this World Press Freedom Day, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) stands with all members of the media who face threats for doing their jobs.
OCCRP Concerned by FSB Raid on IStories Editor Roman Anin’s Moscow Apartment
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is seriously concerned by an ongoing raid on the Moscow apartment of Roman Anin, the editor in chief of IStories, by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
Go Behind the Scenes of our OpenLux Investigation With Journalists Antonio Baquero and Maxime Vaudano
OCCRP editor Antonio Baquero and Le Monde journalist Maxime Vaudano will discuss the far-reaching impact of our OpenLux investigation, which made headlines around the world, in a live webinar on April 7 at 11:30 a.m. EDT/5:30 p.m. CEST. The event will last 45 minutes to an hour.
OCCRP Condemns State-Affiliated Media Campaign Tying OCCRP Editor to Serbian Crime Gang
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is deeply concerned by a mounting assault by Serbian tabloid news outlets on our colleague, Stevan Dojčinović, who is both an OCCRP regional editor and the editor in chief of KRIK, a major Serbian news outlet focusing on crime and corruption.
After a coordinated campaign by pro-government tabloids to spread false accusations that KRIK had ties to a murderous Serbian gang, readers responded with graffiti using the hashtag #podrziKRIK, or "support KRIK".
OCCRP Concerned by Steps that Compromise Independence of Partner Network Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Recent steps taken by the current leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media compromise the independence of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a long-standing partner of OCCRP in some of the world’s most challenging environments for independent reporting. OCCRP fears a loss of credibility for RFE/RL could have dire effects for independent journalists and citizens at a historic time for truth and accountability.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Named OCCRP’s 2020 Corrupt Person of the Year
Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, has been named the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s 2020 Person of the Year for his role in promoting organized crime and corruption.
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