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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

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We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account. Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 17h
JUST OUT: 🔴 Rare leak reveals how Turkmenistan targets critics in Europe Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/uvpcWA1sb1 Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 01/10/2026
Bendito Menor" (“Little Blessing”), turned his life as an illegal armed-group commander into social media content that resonated in Colombia. His death in a government raid earlier this month may have amplified his fame.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 29/09/2026
1 day left to join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: buff.ly/azJawif
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 28/09/2026
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 28/09/2026
That’s why we’d like to thank every single one of you. Together, you make it possible for us to achieve our mission: exposing crime and corruption so the public (that’s you!) can hold power to account.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 28/09/2026
This #WorldNewsDay, we’re highlighting the most important tool powering our work: human journalists. But there are no journalists without readers — and journalism can’t make an impact without being heard, seen, and read.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 28/09/2026
Legal experts, including British lawyer Dr. Bianca Jackson, who specializes in surrogacy cases, say the case highlights vulnerabilities within the surrogacy industry due to a lack of coherent regulation and the legal complexities that arise from what are often transnational arrangements.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 27/09/2026
3 days left to join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: buff.ly/azJawif
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 27/09/2026
When commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy, hopeful parents and pregnant surrogates were thrown into chaos. Quote from Cyra Akila Choudhury, an expert in transnational commercial surrogacy, whom we interviewed for the story: buff.ly/UNfXUUz
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 26/09/2026
Join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: buff.ly/GJn5tKL
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 25/09/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 The Killing of a Narco-Influencer Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/vIVOvI_jc2 Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 23/09/2026
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 23/09/2026
The EU has lifted sanctions on Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov, two key oligarchs believed to have close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 21/09/2026
Join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. This one-hour event is open to OCCRP members only. Join the community here: buff.ly/k169JCT
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 19/09/2026
Join upcoming OCCRP Briefing: Power Plays in Central Asia: State Capture, Weaponized Anti-Corruption, and the Rules of Doing Business. With a monthly donation of just $25, you join a community of professionals and engaged citizens who believe in holding power to account: buff.ly/k169JCT
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 18/09/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 A Surrogacy Firm’s Collapse, With Global Implications Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/hc06XBCjJN Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 18/09/2026
When commercial surrogacy agency World Center of Baby told clients it was filing for bankruptcy, parents and surrogates were thrown into chaos. The agency’s opaque ownership and operations raise questions over its business practices and who was responsible for the human suffering.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 18/09/2026
“Bad Practice” has won the IJ4EU Impact Awards celebrating Europe’s top cross-border investigative journalism. A collaboration between 45+ media outlets, the investigation revealed how doctors who lose their licenses for serious wrongdoing can practice in other countries: buff.ly/tMODbnA
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 18/09/2026
How do we stop corrupt actors from hiding behind shell firms? Join OCCRP Chief Impact Officer Alexandra Gillies for the launch of Open Ownership’s Beneficial Ownership Transparency Evidence Centre — a database of research & OCCRP investigations proving transparency works. buff.ly/yJ3XvNZ
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 17/09/2026
We watched von der Leyen's State of the Union like the rest of Europe. Our takeaway: a key omission. Independent journalism is a precondition for democratic resilience — the most durable answer to the threats she warned against. #SOTEU #SOTEU2026 Read our full response: buff.ly/ZtSkRjB
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 17/09/2026
OCCRP is heading to the Netherlands Journalism Festival, Sept 18 & 19 in Deventer. Our team joins panels & workshops on social media strategy, cross-border investigations, and our Scam Empire investigation. Free admission, learn more: www.nljf.nl
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 15/09/2026
Analyzing 51 OCCRP investigations across 23 countries, "Chronicling Capture" maps how state capture works and shows why journalism is a critical defense. 🔵 Read the full report here: buff.ly/tr4OuCs
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 14/09/2026
A Pacific island’s president bypassed a selection process when he chose a company to reopen a multi-billion dollar mine. He told OCCRP the firm’s managing director offered to pay for his wife's kidney transplant but insisted it had “nothing to do” with the deal. More in our story: buff.ly/9u0V14d
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 11/09/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 Murder Plot Interrogation Tapes Made Public Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/OSjsBUnEKk Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 10/09/2026
On paper, it looks like a harmless PR firm. In reality, thousands of leaked internal files reveal it as a frontline weapon in Russian hybrid warfare — engineered to fake news stories, stage hate crimes, and flood the West with disinformation. Watch our new documentary: buff.ly/RqAhGIP
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 07/09/2026
Iraq is tracking down billions in stolen cash, gold and rifles as part of the country’s anti-graft campaign. What did investigators uncover? And why is it happening on such a broad scale? OCCRP’s Middle East and North Africa Editor Selma Mhaoud explains:
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 04/09/2026
What if an investigation became an interactive story you could actually play? That's the idea behind Floodlight Gaming. iMEdD Lab spotlights our jam winner, Predatorgate, and delves into how new formats are bringing more people into investigative journalism. Read more: buff.ly/pS0naLg
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 04/09/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 Journalist Assassination Trial Ends, But Major Questions Remain Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/34c485edrY Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 03/09/2026
A Guinea-Bissau fisheries assessment obtained by OCCRP shows that the sardinella — an important food source — has been decimated in the years since two Chinese vessels set up shop offshore. After the industry was banned, the floating factories moved south to Sierra Leone. Read more: buff.ly/KFtFHjI
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 02/09/2026
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 02/09/2026
Businessman Yorgen Fenech, heir to one of Malta's largest business empires, has been found not guilty on charges of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 28/08/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 A Free Kidney Transplant and a $160 Billion Pacific Mining Deal Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/WbkcOTtKc7 Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 22/08/2026
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 22/08/2026
Tiny Kyrgyzstan was once known as Central Asia’s “island of democracy.” But over the last five years, the country has plummeted on every metric of freedom and political openness. Instrumental to this deterioration was the GKNB security agency.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 21/08/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 Police Interrogation Tapes Played in Assassination Trial Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/LYEkoiDEH0 Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 18/08/2026
Brian Sutton, accused of masterminding one of the largest fraud schemes to ever be unraveled in the United States, is living freely in Russia. Among his acquisitions there is a fleet of luxury cars, an elite villa near Moscow, and a stake in an MMA club tied to a member of the Russian parliament.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 14/08/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 Albania's 'AI Minister' Has A Corruption Problem Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/QpBdTJsgI2 Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 11/08/2026
Albania made headlines around the world when it introduced the world’s first-ever “AI minister.” Diella, which means “Sun” in Albanian, was a chatbot that had been promoted to ministerial status. Her remit was to ensure that “public tenders will be 100 percent free of corruption.”
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 07/08/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 How an Iranian Fraudster Started Over in Texas Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/_dIm4pqPCs Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 05/08/2026
You have likely heard of blockbuster weight loss treatments like Ozempic. Now organized crime wants a piece of the action. Read more in our new story with Piauí: www.occrp.org/en/feature/s...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 04/08/2026
Today marks six years since a catastrophic explosion of ammonium nitrate tore through Beirut’s port, killing over 200 people in one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in modern history.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 31/07/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 ‘Mutant Pharmacy’ Fraudster From U.S. Living Large in Moscow Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/uYriFeRGaj Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 30/07/2026
🇰🇭 What happens inside Cambodia's scam industry? Journalist Vicheika Kann spoke with a survivor who escaped a scam factory after a friend deceived her and "sold" her into a compound for $7,000:
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 29/07/2026
🇺🇸🇷🇺 The alleged mastermind of a $2 billion U.S. telemedicine scam Is enjoying the luxury life in Russia. Read our new investigation with our member center Important Stories: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 25/07/2026
Fiji's biggest children's playgrounds are owned by Grace Road, a group accused of being a violent doomsday cult. OCCRP reporter Meri Radinibaravi explores how the cult embedded itself into Fijian daily life — and speaks to parents why they still take their children to Grace Road's playgrounds
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 24/07/2026
JUST OUT: 🔴 China’s Opaque European Investments Read more in OCCRP Weekly, our flagship email newsletter on the latest in organized crime and corruption: eepurl.com/n3G8PFMz3-/ Subscribe: eepurl.com/dv_Lov
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 23/07/2026
There’s an evolving threat targeting journalism: Disinformation. Our journalists have been spied on, forced to flee their countries, jailed, and even murdered for their work. Disinformation is different. It doesn't just come for journalists. It comes for your trust in them: buff.ly/t1PJ08W
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