Drew Sullivan - OCCRP

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.

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.

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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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...

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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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...

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

www.occrp.org/en/news/fran...

U.S. Sanctions Violent Faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Related Reporting

U.S. Sanctions Violent Faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel

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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...

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:
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

“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.

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...

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.

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...

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?

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.

No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

In the Russian Penal Colony, They Called Him ‘Dr. Evil’ Deep in the Russian heartland, hundreds of kilometers from home, Ukrainian prisoners of war were tormented by a sadistic doctor. Reporters set out to unmask him.

Russian prisons are notorious for torture and abuse. But what happens when medicine becomes the weapon?

Radio Free Europe’s Ukrainian service @rferl.org.web.brid.gy along with OCCRP spoke with 50 former Ukrainian POWs held in Penal Colony No. 10 in Mordovia www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Exclusive: Top Trump Advisor Sergio Gor Was Born In the Soviet Union The birthplace U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by his refusal to answer the question.

NEW: OCCRP and the Times of Malta have found the birthplace of influential Trump official and insider Sergio Gor, who has so far refused to reveal where he was born. He was born in the Soviet Union in Tashkent, now the capital of Uzbekistan. www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

Donald Trump’s director of personnel, who has been called “maybe the most powerful man you’ve never heard of,” repeatedly refused to reveal where he was born.

OCCRP and @timesofmalta.bsky.social revealed his birthplace - the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

His lawyers confirmed this with OCCRP. We found the information in Maltese land records that list his birth information related to a house he bought from his mother in Malta where he spent part of his youth. Gor had vaguely said he immigrated from Malta.

Exclusive: Top Trump Advisor Sergio Gor Was Born In the Soviet Union The birthplace U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by his refusal to answer the question.

NEW: OCCRP and the Times of Malta have found the birthplace of influential Trump official and insider Sergio Gor, who has so far refused to reveal where he was born. He was born in the Soviet Union in Tashkent, now the capital of Uzbekistan. www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

First thing you learn when meeting sensitive sources is leave your phone at home. Amateurs.

Media has always been this way. There wasn’t a good old days. We’ve had sixty years of money corrupting democracy and growing plutocracy. Journalism reports waves. They miss tides.

Cybercriminals Turn Data Brokers, Europol Warns Cybercriminals increasingly treat data not just as a target, but as currency. Europol’s 2025 threat assessment details how LLMs, infostealers, and encrypted platforms are fueling a global data black m...

Cybercriminals are no longer just hackers—they are rapidly becoming large-scale data brokers, weaponizing and monetizing stolen personal information at every stage of their operations, according to Europol’s 2025 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment www.occrp.org/en/news/cybe...