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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 1d
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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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 · 2d
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 · 1d
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 · 6d
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 · 8d
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 · 7d
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 · 6d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 11d
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 · 11d
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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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 16d
The Trump family just took tens of millions from a phantom offshore company. Since he hasnt separated himself from his family business, that is a serious problem and the backers must be identified: dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...
Trump's Shell Game Threatens American Security
We're pushing to make anti-corruption a top priority on the political agenda to fight authoritarianism, strengthen the rule of law and protect democracy.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 21d
France’s financial crimes office is probing ex-Lebanese premier Najib Mikati and his brother for alleged fraud. NGOs say they allegedly used offshore firms to launder millions and buy property across France.

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France Opens Fraud Probe Into Lebanon’s Ex-PM Mikati
France’s financial crimes office is probing ex-Lebanese premier Najib Mikati and his brother for alleged fraud. NGOs say they allegedly used offshore firms to launder millions and buy property across...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 21d
U.S. Sanctions Violent Faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel

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U.S. Sanctions Violent Faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 20d
NEW: Private equity is reshaping U.S. hospitals into financial assets, often at the expense of patients. Our new investigation reveals how a deal with a real-estate investment trust helped drive a major hospital chain further into financial ruin:
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Deal With Real-Estate Investment Trust Helps Bring Down Another U.S. Hospital Operator
U.S. hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings imploded this year after long-term neglect and crippling debt. At the center of its financial collapse was a deal involving MPT, the real-estate invest...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 19d
An Israeli man dubbed “The Tinder Swindler” in a popular Netflix documentary has been detained in Georgia at Interpol’s request, after Germany accused him of conning a woman out of tens of thousands of euros in Berlin: www.occrp.org/en/news/tind...
“Tinder Swindler” Arrested in Georgia, Placed in Extradition Custody
A Georgian court has remanded Israeli national Shimon Hayut, the focus of a 2022 Netflix documentary, in custody for three months pending a possible extradition request from Germany.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 19d
Lebanon will expedite an extradition request to Bulgaria after the arrest of Russian-Cypriot citizen Igor Grechushkin, Minister of Justice Adel Nassar told OCCRP’s Lebanese media partner, Daraj: www.occrp.org/en/news/beir...
Beirut Port Explosion Probe Gains Momentum With Extradition Request
The arrest in Bulgaria of Igor Grechushkin — whose ship carried chemicals to Lebanon that exploded in 2020 — is viewed as a sign that a long stalled investigation might finally get results.
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 22d
Can Carter-Ruck be held liable for helping perpetuate this scam by their client? Anyone thinking class action suit with C-R as a defendant?
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · Aug 9
A lawyer for scumbag law firm Carter-Ruck is being brought up for improper threats to sue. We would argue almost all their letters to us are improper threats to sue. These attack dogs for organized crime and the corrupt need to be properly sanctioned: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Carter-Ruck partner prosecuted for ‘improper’ threat to sue
Claire Gill understood to be facing tribunal over letter attempting to silence victim of a huge fraud scheme, as reported by TBIJ
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 22d
Nice work by TBIJ on Carter-Ruck, a scumbag law firm always willing to help organized crime try to shut down journalism, or in this case, criminals to perpetuate a scam. These firms are not acting in the public interest. They should be made to pay restitution to any victims harmed in this case.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 22d
NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT.

Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out.

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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 28d
No moment of silence is warranted. He was no hero. He was part of the problem. What happened to him was wrong and unacceptable but let’s see him for what he was: a racist, anti-democratic liar: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · Sep 6
Kyrgyzstan was the closest thing to a democracy in Central Asia. Now it is maybe the worst government there. An organized crime connected government has eviscerated rule of law, democracy and human rights. Here is the story of what happened. www.occrp.org/en/project/u...
Inside the Crackdown: Kyrgyzstan's Preemptive Assault on Investigative Journalism
In Kyrgyzstan, authorities are no longer just reacting to stories — they are trying to stop them before they are told, dismantling entire newsrooms and effectively criminalizing journalism.
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · Aug 9
Not quite. Shiner lied about evidence. Here they are threatening people without proper basis which lawyers like C-R do ALL THE TIME. Every SLAPP suit is a lawyer abusing the system knowingly.
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · Aug 9
A lawyer for scumbag law firm Carter-Ruck is being brought up for improper threats to sue. We would argue almost all their letters to us are improper threats to sue. These attack dogs for organized crime and the corrupt need to be properly sanctioned: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Carter-Ruck partner prosecuted for ‘improper’ threat to sue
Claire Gill understood to be facing tribunal over letter attempting to silence victim of a huge fraud scheme, as reported by TBIJ
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