Accountability, anti-corruption, and human rights at @StateDept. Visiting Fellow at @SNFAgoraJHU. Formerly @OCCRP, @FreedomHouse, @USAID, @CSIS. Views mine.
Our award-winning Caucasus/Central Asia team at @OCCRP is looking for a new editorial fellow! Come work w/ me, @MirandaOCCRP, and great local reporters. We've uncovered smuggling empires, high-level corruption, and dictators' wealth. Come help us do more. https://t.co/sLgpSGe2Su
Thanks to @SNFAgoraJHU for this opportunity. Very excited to work with and learn from this impressive group and pioneering institute - tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Many @OCCRP journalists, incl @IDashboard & @StevanOCCRP have long been targeted by abusive lawsuits. #SLAPPs drain resources which could be used for investigations into critical issues. Gordana Miladinovic highlights how the EU Initiative can help to boost transparency.
The OCCRP network is growing!
We welcome five new member centers:
🇰🇿 @Vlastkz in Kazakhstan
🇹🇲 @adalatseeker in Turkmenistan
🇧🇾 Belarusian Investigative Center in Belarus
🇧🇬 @birdbg2 in Bulgaria
🇭🇷 @_portal_ostro in Croatia
The full announcement:
https://t.co/dkWqxTjhZZ
New from @OCCRP: Despite 2 decades of pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, it continued to cater to dozens of criminals, dictators, intelligence officials, sanctioned parties and political actors w/ outsized wealth. #SuisseSecrets https://t.co/gMIWUFYMXq
Rarely has an award winner been so deserving - recognized for his relentless repression, use of illicit state ties, and defiance of international norms, Aleksandr Lukashenko unanimously takes the prize for @OCCRP Corrupt Person of the Year. 🏆
🏆 We have a winner 🏆
The 2021 Corrupt Person of the Year is…
🇧🇾 Aleksandr Lukashenko 🇧🇾
Learn why our judges selected the President of Belarus over the other four finalists.
https://t.co/5dZxwMfgPw
"The Global Anti-Corruption Consortium is a unique global mechanism for the public good that deserves global backing," said OCCRP’s @CamilleEiss. "We look forward to ramping up results and doing more to ensure they add up to systemic change." https://t.co/NKD6mDiucc
Thank you @SecBlinken for the vote of confidence and call to invest in the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium - a tested model with so much more to do. #SummitForDemocracy@OCCRP@anticorruption
https://t.co/XsvHoY99nR
Quite a line up and reflection of actors across the anti-corruption ecosystem speaking at today's #SummitForDemocracy at 12:15 p.m. EST, including OCCRP's own @IDashboard -
OCCRP Co-Founder Paul Radu will join a #SummitForDemocracy panel to discuss the role of investigative journalism in countering corruption.
Watch live Dec. 9 at 12:15 p.m. EST.
https://t.co/YvGcRP9ryq
OCCRP stands with @FinancialTimes and @tomburgis, targets of a #SLAPP from a Kazakh mining company.
The UK gov’t must protect journalists from abusive lawsuits aimed at silencing them.
"Our democracy relies on their ability to hold power to account." https://t.co/2dLEBThgNy
🎙Making a Killing #24
💸 Inside the #PandoraPapers with @MirandaOCCRP: How she and 600 journalists worked 11.5 million leaked files in the biggest journalism investigation ever.
💸 @apmassaro3 on the US policy response: The ENABLERS Act! https://t.co/Vlzm6zCzgz
IMPACT: U.S. lawmakers pointed to the #PandoraPapers as "the clearest demonstration yet of the historic threat posed by foreign corruption" and urged the Senate to adopt @KleptoCaucus measures.
https://t.co/2d0v30VsAU