Dejan Balaban
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Dejan Balaban
@dejanlafob.bsky.social
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NEW: They thought they were untraceable — but we tracked them down.

Our latest documentary goes inside a call center that ran brazen investment scams from Georgia.

Watch “Inside a Merciless Scam Empire” now 👇

#ScamEmpire

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVu1...
Inside A Merciless Scam Empire (short documentary)
YouTube video by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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March 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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In an @npr.org interview, OCCRP publisher
@drewoccrp.bsky.social said that bad actors are the biggest beneficiaries of the U.S. foreign funding freeze

www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...
February 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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We’re not going anywhere.
I thought they might just politicize it, instead of gut it, and then bad faith actors would accuse Cas and I of fear-mongering.

I did not expect them to try to kill the OCCRP, stop all SEC investigations, and get the DC attorney to work to pursue reporters
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The Global Investigative Journalism Network expressed its support for OCCRP after it was attacked by Russian, Azeri and a small group of European media including Mediapart. The story, which we considered flawed, led to attacks against OCCRP related media across the world. gijn.org/uncategorize...
GIJN Statement in Support of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Questions were recently raised by a group of journalists about the amount and influence of US government funding for the nonprofit investigative newsroom, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting ...
gijn.org
December 13, 2024 at 9:57 PM