Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Founder	• Paul Radu • Drew Sullivan
Type	International non-governmental organisation
Member of	EXPOSE Network
Sponsored by	Dutch Postcode Lottery, International Center for Journalists, Luminate, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sigrid Rausing Trust, UK/FCO, US/Department/State, USAID

The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) was created by Paul Radu and Drew Sullivan in 2006,

Own Description

It is a cross-border network of Eastern European independent media and non-profit organisations, counting the Rise Project and Novaya Gazetta (the newspaper Anna Politkovskaya – the Russian journalist murdered in 2006 for opposing Vladimir Putin – worked for) among its members.

By publishing freely-accessible, groundbreaking investigative articles in English and Russian, the OCCRP hopes to help local populations realise the impact of organised crime and corruption on their lives.

With a resource centre and data visualisations, as well as all the documents used to support the articles freely available, the OCCRP also has something of an educational mission: to inspire people to pursue their own investigations.

Criticism

Many of the sponsors who generously endow the Project are connected to the US power apparatus, making the coverage decidedly tilted against official US enemies. Showing many signs of this bias, it publishes its stories through local media and in English and Russian through its website.

OCCRP worked on the Panama Papers project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Süddeutsche Zeitung producing more than 40 stories on corruption through the use of offshore entities, where the focus f.ex. was on "how friends close to" Russian President Vladimir Putin were receiving large sums of money through offshore companies, but conspicuously few revelations of US activities.

Reminiscent of one of the work areas of the Integrity Initiative (a connection is suspected), it also looked at an massive money laundering scheme, the Russian Laundromat, that allegedly moved tens of billions of dollars into Europe using offshore companies, fake loans and bribed Moldovan judges.

Since 2012, OCCRP has dedicated the Person of the Year Award that "recognizes the individual or institution that has done the most to advance organized criminal activity and corruption in the world", an decidedly has a tilt against Western official enemies -Vladimir Putin, Victor Orbán, Nicolai Maduro, Rodrigo Duterte etc.

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Dutch Postcode Lottery
International Center for Journalists	US government funded organization to promote and finance a network of reliable journalists worldwide.
Luminate	Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund	Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War.
Sigrid Rausing Trust
UK/FCO	The UK government department dealing with foreign policy.
US/Department/State	Set up in 1789, the US State Department is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries.
USAID	US govt organization to provide "international development", including funding of Ecohealth Alliance. Called "CIA's little sister".

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