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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a joint program of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo, Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism, Bulgarian Investigative Journalism Center, Media Focus, the Caucasus Media Investigation Center, Novaya Gazeta and a network of investigative journalists in Montenegro, Albania, Moldova, Ukraine, Macedonia and Georgia.

Our goal is to help the people of the region better understand how organized crime and corruption affect their lives.  OCCRP seeks to provide in-depth investigative stories as well as the latest news pertaining to organized crime and corruption activities in the Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In addition to the stories, OCCRP is building an online resource center of documents related to organized crime including court records, laws, reports, studies, company records, etc that will be an invaluable resource center for the journalists and public alike.

http://www.reportingproject.net

 

Stories from Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

In Hungary, Corruption Continues
One third of top Hungarian managers say they regularly bribe politicians and two-thirds have recently become targets
Eva Vayda
Marton Dunai
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
09/04/2009

Organized crime and corruption still dominate life in Hungary, undiminished since the turf battles of the 1990s and early 2000s. Instead, groups and individuals have consolidated their strength, through connections to Hungarian leaders in government and business, to such an extent that many experts question the ability of the justice system to make any difference.

“If there are 300 murders, you call the police,” said Geza Finszter, a senior researcher at the National Institute of Criminology in Budapest. “If there are 30,000 murders, you look for another solution. Real justice is only possible in a fundamentally honest society. Only then it is possible to shift away from current practices and thus make crime unprofitable.”

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