Half of the world's leading exporters of arms are European Union member states. First up is Italy whose arms industry is growing, having long consolidated a place in the global top 10 of arms exporter...
Lorenzo Di Pietro
Lorenzo Di Pietro works for the investigative journalism TV programme Report on RAI Tre. He has contributed to The Guardian, L'Espresso, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He deals with public corruption, offshore corporate schemes, criminal infiltration into the legal economy, human rights violations and civil rights. He specializes in methods and techniques of open source investigation and data mining, including the ICIJ Paradise Papers databases. With OCCRP he received the Tom Renner award for the Khadija Project, a transnational investigation that revealed the corruption and the offshore interests of the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. His photo report Miraggio Europa, on the route of migrants through the Sahara, received the high patronage of the UNHCR. With IRPI, of which he is a member, he created the collaborative platform Mafia Files, supported by the Google DNI.
The Khadija Project: the campaign to free jailed Azerbaijan journalist Khadija Ismayilova
When award winning OCCRP journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested in Azerbaijan in December 2014, she asked her colleagues to finish her work. Under OCCRP’s direction, more than two dozen repor...
