Media Inquiries

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We help inform a wide array of audiences on issues we specialize in, providing expertise on organized crime and corruption. Our editors and reporters are specialists in various regions and a diverse set of topics such as the billion-dollar drug smuggling industry, a broad range of organized crime groups, environmental crime, international arms trafficking all the way to global money laundering and grand corruption. You can read more about our editors here.

If you would like to schedule an interview with one of our editors or invite them to a panel or talk show, please contact our Engagement Editor, Alex Cooper, at alexander(at)occrp.org.

Paul Radu, Executive Director
Areas of Expertise: Organized Crime, Corruption, Financial Crime, Media Development, Data Journalism, Environmental Crime, Tobacco Smuggling, Romanian Anti-Corruption, Human Trafficking

Drew Sullivan, Editor
Areas of Expertise: Organized Crime, Corruption, Financial Crime, Reporter Safety, Journalism Legal Issues, Media Development, Kleptocracy, Failed States

Miranda Patrucic, Regional Editor
Areas of Expertise: Organized Crime, Corruption, Money Laundering, International Drug Trade, Tobacco Smuggling, Arms Trafficking, ‘Following the Money’, The Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Azerbaijan

Ilya Lozovsky, Managing Editor
Areas of Expertise: Russia, Ukraine, Democratization, Political Development, US Politics

Vlad Lavrov, Regional Editor
Areas of Expertise: Ukraine, YanukovychLeaks, Corruption, Money Laundering, Cigarette Smuggling, Fraud, Press Freedom

Anna Babinets, Regional Editor
Areas of Expertise: Ukraine, Corruption in the Ukrainian Army, Security Sector, Gas and Oil Market, Ukrainian Oligarchs, YanukovychLeaks

Stevan Dojcinovic, Regional Editor and Editor-in-Chief of KRIK.rs
Areas of Expertise: Organized Crime, Corruption, International Drug Trade, Money Laundering, Tobacco Smuggling, The Balkans/E. Europe, Press Freedom

Pavla Holcova, Editor for CCIZ
Areas of Expertise: Cuba, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Czech and Slovak Oligarchs, Money Laundering, Transnational Organized Crime in Czech Republic and Slovakia, Post-Soviet Investments in Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad.

Khadija Sharife, Africa Editor
Areas of Expertise: Africa, Whistleblowing, Illicit Financial Flows, Natural Resources, Political Economy, Corruption

Aubrey Belford, Regional Editor
Areas of Expertise: Asia, Conflict in Southeast Asia, Human Trafficking, Corruption, Arms Smuggling

Roman Shleynov, Regional Editor
Areas of Expertise: Russia, Corruption, Cigarette Smuggling, Financial Secrecy, Offshores, Money Laundering

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak, Chief Information Security Officer
Areas of Expertise: Networking, Communication/IT security, Server Administration, Free Software, Policy Issues related to: Censorship, Privacy/Surveillance, Open Data, Open Education, Open Licensing of Software, Copyright and Copyright Reform