Annual Report 2017 Table of Contents About OCCRP... ........................4 Developing the Next Generation: The Russian Language Media Network ....50 Our Mission ...........................5 Recognition .......................... 51 The Vision ............................6 Our International Media Member Centres ......................8 Partners in 2017 ......................58 Meet our Global Editors ............... 12 Board of Directors ....................60 OCCRP in Numbers ..................22 Rising Threats ........................64 A Year of Impact .....................27 We Were There: 2017 Global Investigative Accelerating Impact: The Global Anti- Journalism Conference ...............66 Corruption Consortium ...............44 Combined Financial Statements .......71 The Investigative Dashboard .........46 Our Donors ..........................76 OCCRP Data .........................48 3 About OCCRP Founded in 2006 by Drew Sullivan and Paul worldwide. With more than 80 cross- Radu, the Organized Crime and Corruption border stories reaching more than 200 Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a non-profit million readers and viewers annually, media organization that provides an OCCRP has quietly become the world’s investigative reporting platform for the most prolific investigative reporting OCCRP Network. OCCRP now connects organization. Our websites inform more 45 non-profit investigative centers in than 6 million readers and viewers monthly, 34 countries, scores of journalists and reaching an additional 200 million readers several major regional news organizations and viewers through legacy media that across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and publish our work. Latin America. OCCRP’s first ten years prove that access OCCRP is committed to transnational to the truth—and actionable information— investigative reporting and promoting can help bring about the right kind of technology-based approaches to change. exposing organized crime and corruption 4 Our Mission We work to turn the tables on corruption and the technology we develop to and build greater accountability through give citizens and governments the exposing the abuse of power at the information and tools needed to advance expense of the people. We serve all accountability and bring about a fair people whose lives are affected by system in which criminality and injustice organized crime and corruption. Our are fought with transparency, knowledge, highest aim is for the stories we report and empowerment. 5 The Vision A network of investigative journalists and global investigative journalism for the 21st editors working across four continents, century to ensure that the media can fulfill we expose wrongdoing through unique its central role as democracy’s greatest investigative reporting rooted in rigorous watchdog: editorial standards and a fierce adherence to the truth. With world-class reporters overseen by experienced editors, verified by relentless fact-checkers, and supported by cutting-edge software programmers and security experts, OCCRP releases over 80 major projects each year that expose corruption and the Crossing borders: We work across abuse of precious national resources at borders because we know that corruption the highest levels. crosses borders and that the criminal Beyond reporting the news—often in networks that compound the influence environments where the free press is of some of the world’s worst human under threat—we are working to reinvent rights abusers exploit legal and financial loopholes continents away. Because 6 police do not cross borders, journalism is the only natural global enemy of corruption. Multimedia Reach: Empowering citizens to act for accountability requires widespread understanding. Through a rich mix of storytelling and data visualization Independent Media Capacity: With approaches, we are pioneering new ways 45 non-profit member centers, scores to build public awareness of illicit networks of journalists, and a growing number of and their real-world effects. partners, we are building the capacity and hardening the skills of independent media in dozens of countries at a time when advertising models, media capture, and rampant disinformation threaten their existence. Creative Partnerships: By partnering in creative ways with public and private media and civil society groups around the world, we work to uphold the highest journalism ethics while accelerating impact and justice. Cutting-edge Tech Tools: Through Investing across and bringing these focused tech development, we are elements together, we aim to serve working to equip journalists with cutting- as a common platform for credible edge tools to follow the money, distill investigative work worldwide—generating webs of relationships, and accelerate trusted, actionable information essential public access to actionable information. for citizens to hold power to account. 7 1 2 3 4 AFRICA 1 Inkyfada, Tunisia 2 L’evenement, Niger 3 L’alternative, Togo 4 New Narratives, Liberia 5 5 The Centre for Investigative Journalism, Malawi 6 L’alternative, Namibia 6 7 7 Ink Centre for Investigative Journalism, Botswana 8 Oxpeckers, South Africa 8 8 1 Member Centres 2 3 4 AFRICA 1 Inkyfada, Tunisia 2 L’evenement, Niger 3 L’alternative, Togo 4 New Narratives, Liberia 5 5 The Centre for Investigative Journalism, Malawi 6 L’alternative, Namibia 6 7 7 Ink Centre for Investigative Journalism, Botswana 8 Oxpeckers, South Africa 8 9 EUROPE THE CAUCASUS 1 Association of independent TV 17 HETQ Online, Armenia Journalists (ATI), Rise Project Moldova, Kavshirebi.ge, Studio Monitori, Ziarul de Gardă (ZDG), Moldova 18 Ifact.ge, Georgia 2 Rise Project, Romania 19 Meydan TV, Azerbaijan 3 Atlatszo.hu, Direkt36, Hungary 4 České Centrum pro Investigativni Žurnalistiku, Czech Republic 5 Dossier, Austria 6 Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK), Center for Investiga- tive Reporting in Serbia (CINS), Serbia 15 7 The Center for Investigative Reporting 13 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (CIN), Bosnia and Herzegovina 14 8 Mans, Montenegro 9 Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), Italy 10 Balkan Investigative Reporting 4 Network (BIRN) Kosovo, Kosovo 16 5 1 11 Scoop-Macedonia, Macedonia 3 2 12 Bivol.bg, Bulgaria 7 6 13 Re:Baltica, Latvia 9 8 10 12 18 11 14 15min.lt, Lithuania 17 19 15 Novaya Gazeta, Russia 16 The Kyiv Post, Media Development Foundation, Slidstvo.info, Ukraine 10 EUROPE THE CAUCASUS 1 Association of independent TV 17 HETQ Online, Armenia Journalists (ATI), Rise Project Moldova, Kavshirebi.ge, Studio Monitori, Ziarul de Gardă (ZDG), Moldova 18 Ifact.ge, Georgia 2 Rise Project, Romania 19 Meydan TV, Azerbaijan 3 Atlatszo.hu, Direkt36, Hungary 4 České Centrum pro Investigativni Žurnalistiku, Czech Republic 5 Dossier, Austria 6 Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK), Center for Investiga- tive Reporting in Serbia (CINS), Serbia 15 7 The Center for Investigative Reporting 13 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (CIN), Bosnia and Herzegovina 14 8 Mans, Montenegro 9 Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), Italy 10 Balkan Investigative Reporting 4 Network (BIRN) Kosovo, Kosovo 16 5 1 11 Scoop-Macedonia, Macedonia 3 2 12 Bivol.bg, Bulgaria 7 6 13 Re:Baltica, Latvia 9 8 10 12 18 11 14 15min.lt, Lithuania 17 19 15 Novaya Gazeta, Russia 16 The Kyiv Post, Media Development Foundation, Slidstvo.info, Ukraine Meet our Global Editors Paul Radu (@IDashboard) is the executive director of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (occrp. org) and a co-creator of the Investigative Dashboard concept (www.investigativedashboard.org), of Visual investigative Scenarios visualization software (vis.occrp. org) and a co-founder of RISE Project (www.riseproject. ro), a platform for investigative reporters and hackers in Romania. He has held a number of fellowships, including Paul Radu the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship in 2001, the Milena Executive Director and Jesenska Press Fellowship in 2002, the Rosalyn Carter Editor-at-large Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2007, the 2008 Knight International Journalism fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is the recipient of numerous awards including in 2004, the Knight International Journalism Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, in 2007, the Global Shining 12 Light Award, the Tom Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the 2011 the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and the 2015 European Press Prize. Paul is a board member with the Global Investigative Journalism Network (gijn.org) Drew Sullivan is the Editor and co-founder of OCCRP. He co-founded and is Executive Director of the Journalism Development Network, an innovative media development organization with programs worldwide. He serves or has served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (which he founded), Arab Reporters for Investigative Reporting and the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting. As a Drew Sullivan journalist and editor, his teams have been awarded the European Press Prize, the Global Shining Light, the Daniel Editor-in-Chief Pearl Award; the Online Journalism Award for investigative reporting; the Tom Renner Award for Crime Reporting and many other international awards. He helped manage OCCRP’s Panama Paper efforts working with media around the world. The project was later awarded a Pulitzer Prize. He has worked for the Associated