Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
WHO WE ARE
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is an investigative reporting platform formed by 24 non-profit investigative centers, scores of journalists and several major regional news organizations around the globe. Our network is spread across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. We teamed up in 2006 to do transnational investigative reporting and promote technology-based approaches to exposing organized crime and corruption worldwide.
OUR MISSION
OCCRP’s goal is to help the people of the world understand how organized crime and corruption resides in their countries and in their governments. Our organization doesn’t belong to any country, political philosophy or set of beliefs other than that all people should be allowed to choose their own governments and lead their own lives in safety, liberty and opportunity. Our reporters and editors come from dozens of countries.
Our world is increasingly polarized. The world’ media channels are rife with propaganda, misinformation and simply wrong information. We must all strive to understand how our increasingly complex society works. We must be able to find the truth to make the kinds of decisions we need to. We are committed in our small way to telling the truth the best we can.
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OUR IMPACTEverything we do is built upon the core mission of investigative reporting and changing our societies for the better. We are one of the most effective news organizations in bringing about real change.
Since 2009 our reporting has led to:
- US$ 4.2 billion in assets frozen or seized by governments.
- 55 criminal investigations launched as a result of its stories.
- 25 calls for action by civil or international bodies.
- 115 arrest warrants issued with 7 subjects on the run.
- 12 major sackings, including a President, Prime Minister and CEOs of major international corporations.
- Over 1,300 company closures and court decisions.
OCCRP has an outsized impact given its modest budget making it one of the most cost effective investments donors can make. Just looking at financial returns, historically OCCRP has returned more than 56,000 percent to governments through seizures and fines, an almost unheard of success.
OUR SUPPORTERS
OCCRP is supported by grants by the Open Society Foundation, Google Digital News Initiative, the Skoll Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, Google Jigsaw, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Knight Foundation. OCCRP also receives developmental funds for improving journalism from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) [pdf], the United States Department of State and the Swiss Confederation.
Also on this site are projects and programs funded in part or done in partnership with other organizations including the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the Stockholm School of Economics, In Sight, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Connectas, and the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR).
OCCRP is a registered name of the Journalism Development Network, a Maryland-based charitable organization (501(c)3).
Check out OCCRP’s latest annual report for more about what we’ve been doing.
○ The Future of Investigative Journalism: Global, Networked and Collaborative – March 2017
#PanamaPapers breaks the Internet with revelations of global corruption
The Mossack Fonseca documents were first leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung more than a year ago. Investigative journalists in countries around the word have been sifting through them ever since.
“The source wanted neither financial compensation nor anything else in return, apart from a few security measures,” Süddeutsche Zeitung said of its confidential source. The newspaper shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The organization then launched a global reporting effort involving 107 media organizations in 78 countries.
Edward Snowden @Snowden
Biggest leak in the history of data journalism
just went live, and it’s about corruption.
http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/
Social Media Sparked, Accelerated Egypt’s Revolutionary Fire | Wired – Nov. 2011 |
“In the same way that pamphlets didn’t cause the American Revolution, social media didn’t cause the Egyptian revolution,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. “Social media have become the pamphlets of the 21st century, a way that people who are frustrated with the status quo can organize themselves and coordinate protest, and in the case of Egypt, revolution.”
It is a truism in political science that successful revolutions are born in the streets — from the Boston Massacre of March 1770 and the storming of the Bastille in Paris in July 1789, to the streets of Cairo in January and February 2011. What has shocked most observers of the current Egyptian scene is the sheer speed with which the regime fell — 18 days.
And that’s where modern communications technology has had the most potent impact.
Rafat Ali, a social media expert and founder of PaidContent, said Facebook and Twitter played different roles in the uprising. Facebook helped to organize the activists inside the country, he said, while Twitter functioned to help get the message out to the broader world.
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