Scam Empire

The Reporting Team

Project Coordination: Joachim Dyfvermark (SVT)⁩; Antonio Baquero (OCCRP), Kelly Bloss (OCCRP), Lawrence Marzouk (OCCRP) 

Journalists: ⁨Lorenzo Bagnoli (IRPIMedia), Sophia Baumann (Paper Trail Media), Lars Bové (De Tijd), Tom Bolsius (Follow The Money), Julian Bonnici (Amphora Media), Jacob Borg (Times of Malta), Inese Braže (Re:Baltica), Luc Caregari (Reporter.lu), Lindita Cela, Šarūnas Černiauskas (Siena), Maria Cheresheva (OCCRP), Atanas Chobanov (Bird), Riccardo Coluccini (IRPIMedia), Andreas Cosma (CIReN), Turgut Denizgil (CIReN), Paul Émile d’Entremont (CBC/Radio-Canada), Victoria Denys (Le Monde), Pamela Duncan (The Guardian), Karim El Hadj (Le Monde), Ester Eriksson (Qurium), Margaux Farran (OCCRP), ⁨Eiliv Frich Flydal (VG), Juliette Garside (The Guardian), Michael Goodier (The Guardian), Simon Goodley (The Guardian), Mariia Horban (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty), Eva Jung (Berlingske), Sanna Klinghoffer (SVT), Minna Knus-Galán (YLE), Remy Koens (Follow The Money), Lukas Kotkamp (Follow The Money), Miglė Krancevičiūtė (Siena.lt), Moritz Kudermann (ZDF), Damien Leloup (Le Monde), Tord Lundström (Qurium), Christodoulos Mavroudis⁩⁩ (CIReN), Gur Megiddo, Bastian Obermayer (Paper Trail Media), Gisle Oddstad (VG), Marta Orosz (ZDF); Stelios Orphanides (OCCRP), Greete Palgi (Delfi), Begoña P. Ramírez (Infolibre), Daiva Repeckaite (Amphora Media), Florian Reynaud (Le Monde), Laurent Schmit (Reporter.lu), Graham Stack (OCCRP), Holger Roonemaa (OCCRP), Iulia Stănoiu (Context.ro), Tom Stocks (OCCRP), Dimitar Stoyanov (Bird), Nora Thorp Bjørnstad (VG), Alexis Troma (Le Monde), Björn Tunbäck (SVT), Kornelija Ukolovaitė (Siena.lt), Romy van der Burgh (Investico), Linda van der Pol (Investico), Dewald van Rensburg (AmaBhungane), Simona Weinglass (OCCRP), Zoe Wood (The Guardian), Emma Wright (OCCRP), Jeff Yates (CBC/Radio-Canada), Frédéric Zalac (CBC/Radio-Canada), Kira Zalan (OCCRP)

Six Georgian journalists contributed vital reporting to this project but cannot be named for security reasons. 

The OCCRP Project Team

Writing and Editing: Peter Jones, Ilya Lozovsky, Sally Mairs, Laura Mannering, Miranda Patrucic, Julia Wallace

Lead Data Journalist: ⁨Malina McLennan 

Research and Data: Alina Tsogoeva, Eric Barrett

Lead Fact-Checker: Bojana Pavlović 

Fact-Checking: Ia Asatiani, Birgit Brauer, Ivana Jeremić, Olena LaFoy

Video: Sergiu Nicolae Brega, Brindusa Nastasa, Matt Sarnecki 

Design and Graphics: James O'Brien

Photo Editing: Erika Di Benedetto 

Web: Fabienne Meijer 

Social Media and Promotion: Sam Brooke, Amber Crossen, Lauren Jackman, Fabienne Meijer, ⁨Ekaterina Selivanova, ⁨Nils Weisensee⁩ 

Logistics: Nadia Ouddane

Media Partners

• AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism (South Africa)

• Amphora Media (Malta)

• Berlingske (Denmark)

• Bird (Bulgaria)

• CBC/Radio-Canada (Canada)

• CIReN (Cyprus)

• Context.ro (Romania)

• Delfi (Estonia)

• Der Spiegel (German)

• Der Standard (Austria)

• Follow The Money (Netherlands)

• Infolibre (Spain)

• Investico (Netherlands)

• IRPIMedia (Italy)

• iFact (Georgia)

• Le Monde (France)

• OCCRP (global)

• Paper Trail Media (German)

• Qurium (Sweden)

• Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Ukrainian service (Ukraine)

• Re:Baltica (Latvia)

• Reporter.lu (Luxembourg)

• Siena.lt (Lithuania)

• SVT (Sweden)

• Studio Monitori (Georgia)

• De Tijd (Belgium)

• The Guardian (U.K.)

• Times of Malta (Malta)

• The Governance Monitoring Center (Georgia)

• VG (Norway)

• YLE (Finland)

• ZDF (Germany)