About Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP):
- OCCRP is a nonprofit investigative reporting platform for 50+ independent media outlets around the world, publishing more than 100 investigations a year.
- It was founded in 2006 to conduct transnational investigative reporting and promote technology-based approaches to exposing organised crime and corruption worldwide.
- It aims to develop and equip a global network of investigative journalists and publish their stories.
- With this, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
- Vision: “A world where lives, livelihoods, and democracy are not threatened by crime and corruption."
- OCCRP provides media outlets and journalists with a range of critical resources and tools, including digital and physical security, and allows those covering the most sensitive topics to work in teams with trusted editors.
- OCCRP Aleph: It is an investigative data platform where journalists can search and cross-reference more than three billion records to trace criminal connections and patterns and efficiently collaborate across borders.
- It also trains reporters and partners in advanced journalism techniques.
- OCCRP also partners with advocacy groups, arming civil society with information to meaningfully press for justice and change and unearths evidence that enables law enforcement to act.
