Despite NDR German television killing a story about OCCRP by reporter John Goetz, a version of the story was leaked online. Grossly inaccurate and done in a purposefully misleading propaganda style, it is being used by the Hungarian government to try to shut down independent media Atlatszo.hu.

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The staff, members & partners of OCCRP won or placed five times for our work in the 2025 EPPY awards. Our Scam Empire collaboration with SVT, our Dr Evil project with Schemes/RFE and our Steward Healthcare story with Boston Globe and Times of Malta all won or were runners up. www.eppyawards.com

Russians invent first drunk AI robot.

🌎Here's this week's round-the-world roundup of OCCRP's biggest stories and scoops:

From Europe to the Pacific, the Moldovan fugitive used at least six aliases and a web of forged documents - including passports from Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, Iraq, and Vanuatu - to move, and hide from justice. www.occrp.org/en/news/jail...

If you live in the exclusive Russian ski resort town of Krasnaya Polyana, you might soon have a new neighbor: Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko. Here’s what we know about an elite new ‘hotel complex’ — and the money behind it. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Masterminds of a massive crypto fraud linked to a China investment scheme are sentenced following the UK’s record 60,000-Bitcoin seizure. www.occrp.org/en/news/uk-j...

How are banned doctors crossing borders undetected? Why does information sharing between countries fail so often? What does this mean for patient safety? Hear the answers to these questions and more at our OCCRP Briefing. Wednesday, November 5, 4 p.m CET mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...

UK accuses Iranian banker of funding Revolutionary Guard, imposing an asset freeze and travel ban against him. www.occrp.org/en/news/uk-s...

A top anti-corruption police chief, a former lawmaker, and other officials are accused of running a child sex trafficking ring that preyed on girls from an orphanage in Bosnia. www.occrp.org/en/news/poli...

Serbian Prosecutors Threaten KRIK with Fine if it Fails to Submit Recording of a Conversation www.occrp.org/en/news/serb...

🇷🇺 "Farage’s engagement with Russian media is well documented: he appeared repeatedly on the state-controlled network RT (Russia Today) while an MEP." https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/farage-reform-and-the-russia-question-that-wont-go-away/

Nearly 90 journalists across 50 media outlets worked together to expose doctors who lost their licences due to serious misconduct — but were still able to practice elsewhere. Find out how the reporters did it at our newest OCCRP Briefing. Wednesday November 5, 4 p.m CET mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...

‘Corruption Kills’: Thousands March in Serbia to Mark Tragedy’s Anniversary www.occrp.org/en/news/corr...

What if the doctor treating you had been banned in another country for harming patients — and no one checked? Join investigative journalists as they discuss how they exposed systemic failures leaving patients across Europe vulnerable. November 5, at 4 p.m. CET mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...

The Committee to Protect Journalists, an international press freedom organization, warns of mounting assaults on journalists across Africa, from Sudan’s deadly RSF offensive to raids on media outlets in Senegal. www.occrp.org/en/news/jour...

Kyrgyzstan requested a Red Notice for Rinat Tuhvatshin, co-founder of Kloop, in an apparent attempt to silence him abroad. The government has been cracking down on all independent media critical of its actions. www.occrp.org/en/news/inte...

Despite global calls for a ban on the donkey trade, donkey skins remain in high demand in China, where the collagen extracted from them is used to make a traditional medicinal ingredient called 'Ejiao'. www.occrp.org/en/news/hong...

The Trump administration lifted U.S. sanctions on Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska, along with his children, allies, and companies, following extensive lobbying in Washington. www.occrp.org/en/news/us-l...

Miguel Ángel Beltrán is the 13th journalist killed this year in Mexico, making the country one of the world’s deadliest for members of the press. www.occrp.org/en/news/mexi...

Thank you Grok for killing me off in 2021. This is a very specific hallucination (July 29???) but the rest of there report on OCCRP is equally bad. Garbage.

Europe Confronts Serbia Over Corruption, Deadly Negligence, and Media Repression - www.occrp.org/en/news/euro...

🌎🌍🌏WEEKLY UPDATE🌏🌍🌎 Here's this week's round-the-world roundup of OCCRP's biggest stories and scoops 👇

EU Sanctions Prison Medic Exposed by OCCRP, RFE/RL, as Torturing Ukrainian POWs

The Pakistani Navy intercepted two stateless dhows during a 48-hour period, confiscating more than two tons of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ICE, along with cocaine worth a total of about $972 million, according to officials.

The “Bad Practice” project exposed how doctors who lost their licences due to serious misconduct were able to keep practicing, in Europe and beyond. Find out what their findings mean for patients at our upcoming OCCRP Briefing. Wednesday, November 5, 4pm CET mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...

Nearly 90 journalists across 50 media outlets worked together to expose doctors who lost their licences due to serious misconduct — but were still able to practice elsewhere. Find out how the reporters did it at our newest OCCRP Briefing. Wednesday November 5, 4 p.m CET mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...

The increasingly unpopular and desparate Hungarian government is identifying fake enemies before the upcoming elections. Again, OCCRP is being attacked to deflect people away from the excellent journalism done by local menber centers like Atlatszo and Direkt36. www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

OCCRP was named the winner of the Maria Ressa Courage in Investigative Reporting Award by the University of Maryland. A great thank you to the inspirational staff and students there and especially to Jim Risen and Maria. We are honored!

The increasingly unpopular and desparate Hungarian government is identifying fake enemies before the upcoming elections. Again, OCCRP is being attacked to deflect people away from the excellent journalism done by local menber centers like Atlatszo and Direkt36. www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

🩺 A cross-border investigation by journalists in 50 countries exposed 100+ doctors who lost their licenses – some for sexual abuse – yet continue to practice abroad. The EU alert system meant to stop this often fails. Read @occrp.org’s #BadPractice👇

U.S., U.K. Launch Largest-Ever Crackdown on Southeast Asian Cybercrime Networks www.occrp.org/en/news/us-u...

Russia’s FSB accuses exiled Kremlin critics of plotting to seize power as Moscow reacts to European outreach to opposition groups. www.occrp.org/en/news/russ...

The jury said it was “particularly impressed by OCCRP's collaborations, such as the partnership with Boston Globe Media that revealed financial mismanagement by a major hospital chain”. You can learn more about this collaboration here: www.occrp.org/en/project/t...

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems. The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

The University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism @merrillcollege.bsky.social has selected OCCRP as the 2025 winner of the Maria Ressa Prize for Courage in Investigative Reporting merrill.umd.edu/articles/mer...

This story took about two years of work for a team of reporters at the Government Accountability Project and OCCRP. It shows a serious issue with the American corporate system that allows people like the Barzani family to hide money in the United States using American companies

NEW: Like a modern-day fairytale, an ordinary Turkmenistan Airlines plane disappeared to the U.S. for a year — and returned with a serious glow-up fit for a royal. Now the jet is being used by the daughter of the nation’s longtime ruler. Take a look inside: www.occrp.org/en/scoop/gol...

For years, we’ve reported on Chinese-born Uyghur businessman Khabibula Abdukadyr, who colluded with corrupt Kyrgyz customs officials as he built his Central Asian trading empire. Now documents show that his son owns a mosque in London. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/son...

Exclusive: A man who pleaded guilty in the U.K. for transferring profits from a massive investment scam in China that led to “the world’s largest crypto seizure” bought luxury property in Dubai: www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

In Iraqi Kurdistan, the Golden Eagle Global conglomerate trades in construction and ads, also working with local security forces and the U.S. military. Leaked docs suggest the company is controlled by Mustafa Barzani, brother of the region’s prime minister. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

What links the Pirates of the Caribbean movies to Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Barzani family? A lawyer’s leaked plan to help four brothers - including the now-PM - keep their sprawling U.S. property portfolios out of the public domain. Find out more here: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

The Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) is issuing a call for proposals to all Ukrainian non-profit investigative media organizations. www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

The Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) is issuing a call for proposals to all Ukrainian non-profit investigative media organizations. www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

In 2007, an employee of Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Barzani family wrote to a U.S. lawyer with a problem. Two Barzani brothers had bought properties in the U.S. — but they were concerned that this information was public. So the lawyer looked to the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Your next medical visit could be with a banned doctor. Denise Barnes’ daughters say it’s shocking that the doctor who failed to properly treat their seriously ill mother is still licensed in Germany. Struck off in the UK and Netherlands, he has co-owned a German practice since 2018.

In response to an investigation by OCCRP and partners, Norway's health minister proposed creating a new system to prevent doctors from moving across borders to practice after being barred in other countries. www.occrp.org/en/news/heal...

Reacting to an investigation by OCCRP and partners, the Romanian Medical College said it was not obligated to act on alerts about doctors committing offences in other countries, including sexual abuse allegations. www.occrp.org/en/news/doct...