OCCRP — Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Type: International investigative journalism consortium
Founded: 2006
HQ: Amsterdam (registered); distributed network
URL: occrp.org / aleph.occrp.org
Key Facts
- Network of ~45 investigative outlets across Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America; headquartered in Amsterdam
- Landmark investigations: Panama Papers (2016, with ICIJ), Pandora Papers (2021), FinCEN Files (2020), Luanda Leaks (2020), Russian Laundromat
- Aleph: OCCRP’s open-source document search platform aggregating leaked databases, corporate registries, court records, and investigative documents (~300M entities)
- Free with registration; critical tool for offshore corporate structure investigation, oligarch research, kleptocracy mapping
Methodology
- Cross-border data sharing with ICIJ, Bellingcat, national investigative outlets
- Leak-based (document acquisition from whistleblowers) combined with open-source corporate registry research
- Key OSINT tools maintained: Aleph, Visual Investigative Scenarios (VIS) for link mapping