‘They Tried to Frame Us’: New Assault on Hungarian Journalists Highlights Media Freedom Crisis in the Heart of Europe
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling party have spent years turning Hungary’s media environment into their playground...
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Balkan Cocaine Wars
How a Montenegrin Gang Used Open-Source Intelligence to Kill
Hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques, poring over...
Russian Asset Tracker
One Year on From Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, How is the U.K.’s Fight Against Kleptocratic Wealth Faring?
OCCRP joined the Londongrad Kleptocracy Tour, organized by campaigners trying to get dirty money out of the U.K.’s capital,...
Beneficial Ownership Data is Critical in the Fight Against Corruption
FAQ: The EU Ruling on Ownership Transparency and What It Means for Journalists
In late 2022, the European Union's top court struck a major blow to ownership transparency. What does it mean for...
Kazakhstan's President Vowed to Crack Down on Asset Theft. What’s the Reality?
President Tokayev has vowed to clamp down on the theft of state assets, and billions of dollars have already been recovered....
Beneficial Ownership Data is Critical in the Fight Against Corruption
Dear European Court of Justice: You Were Played
The European Court of Justice has reversed a decade of progress against financial secrecy, to the cheers of sanctioned...
The Troika Laundromat
FAQ: What is Correspondent Banking?
Banks often help each other carry out cross-border transactions using a system known as correspondent banking. The process...
Duplicity and Destitution: How Sierra Leone’s Artisanal Diamonds Fail to Benefit Local Communities
Every day, forty-six year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond...
Unwitting Wealth: How a Local Official Scooped up a Georgian Village
The head of the village appears to have abused a new land-titling system intended to help illiterate farmers, using it to...
Opinion: Assigning the Real Blame in a Lebanese Tragedy
Last Friday, tens of thousands of Lebanese viewers watched in horror as a businessman collapsed live on air during a video...
Violent Threats Against Journalists Point to Lingering Impunity in Bosnian Police
A senior police official in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina threatened to rip a journalist’s throat out. Widely...
Opinion: Kyrgyzstan’s Move to Block Radio Azattyk Is a Sign of Trouble — For the Government
On October 26, Kyrgyz authorities blocked the website of Radio Azattyk, the Kyrgyz branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio...