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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 5d
🩺 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👇
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Doctor Has the Right to Practice in Romania — Despite Allegedly Sexually Abusing British Patients
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 4d
U.S., U.K. Launch Largest-Ever Crackdown on Southeast Asian Cybercrime Networks

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U.S., U.K. Launch Largest-Ever Crackdown on Southeast Asian Cybercrime Networks
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 4d
Russia’s FSB accuses exiled Kremlin critics of plotting to seize power as Moscow reacts to European outreach to opposition groups.

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Russia Opens Criminal Case Against Khodorkovsky, Exiled Opposition Figures
Russia’s FSB accuses exiled Kremlin critics of plotting to seize power as Moscow reacts to European outreach to opposition groups.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 9d
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...
The Steward Files
At its height, Steward Health Care ran more than 30 private hospitals across the U.S. helmed by an ambitious CEO who touted a vision of high-quality cost-effective medical services. But as Steward exp...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d
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.

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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 9d
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...
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Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social · 9d
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
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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.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 9d
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.

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Gold Taps and Towel Racks: How a Plane Used by Turkmenistan’s Ruling Family Got a Royal Makeover
In authoritarian Turkmenistan, even a single airplane trip abroad is out of reach for most citizens. But the country’s ruling Berdimuhamedov family, which has held power across two generations,…
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 9d
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.

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Son of Alleged Smuggling Tycoon Spent $3 Million on London Mosque
The Satuq Bughra Khan mosque in Palmers Green is also a Uyghur cultural and educational center. The owner’s family is implicated in vast corruption in Central Asia.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 8d
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...
EXCLUSIVE: Defendant in Record UK Crypto Seizure Case Bought Dubai Properties
Leaked data shows Ling Seng Hok bought two luxury properties in Dubai. A couple years later, he was arrested in the U.K. for moving proceeds from a massive investment scam in China.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 8d
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.

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Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish…
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 7d
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:

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Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish…
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 10d
The Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) is issuing a call for proposals to all Ukrainian non-profit investigative media organizations.

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Open Call for Independent Ukrainian Investigative Media Subgrant Proposals
The Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) is issuing a call for proposals to all Ukrainian non-profit investigative media organizations.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 10d
The Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) is issuing a call for proposals to all Ukrainian non-profit investigative media organizations.

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Open Call for Independent Ukrainian Investigative Media Subgrant Proposals
The Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) is issuing a call for proposals to all Ukrainian non-profit investigative media organizations.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 10d
Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

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Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish conglomerates...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 10d
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.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 14d
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.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 16d
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.

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Health Officials Call For Action Over Banned Doctors Still Practicing in Europe
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.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 15d
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.

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Doctor Has the Right to Practice in Romania — Despite Allegedly Sexually Abusing British Patients
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...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 15d
When freedom of the press is under attack, journalists vanish, lies become law, and the voice of the people is silenced. It’s not just how democracies die, it’s how countries falter. It’s how they fall.

OCCRP fights back with facts — and we need you with us: membership.occrp.org/truth-or-sil...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 20d
Looks like the pro-EU PAS party of Maia Sandu will win big in Moldova with almost 49% of the vote. The Pro-Russian party is just over 25%. That’s better than expected for Sandu as record voting abroad supported her despite repeated bomb threats at embassies. 96% of the vote is in.
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 20d
The Russian parties spent millions in bribes and on aggressive propaganda which works in the U.S. and some EU countries but not in places where people know the Russian government very well.
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Looks like the pro-EU PAS party of Maia Sandu will win big in Moldova with almost 49% of the vote. The Pro-Russian party is just over 25%. That’s better than expected for Sandu as record voting abroad supported her despite repeated bomb threats at embassies. 96% of the vote is in.
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