Russian Asset Tracker
OCCRP and the Guardian were selected for the 2023 Shortlist with ‘Russian Asset Tracker’.
Russian Asset Tracker is a project led by OCCRP and the Guardian. Find more information about the team members and journalists who directly contributed to the investigation below.
Reporting, Writing, and Editing
Juliette Garside is deputy business editor of the Guardian and the Observer
Simon Goodley is an investigative reporter at the Guardian
Kalyeena Makortoff is the banking correspondent at the Guardian
Antonio Baquero is Europe editor at OCCRP
Lara Dihmis is a researcher/reporter at OCCRP
Alex Dziadosz is an editor at OCCRP
Jared Ferrie is an editor at OCCRP
Brian Fitzpatrick is an editor at OCCRP
Kevin Hall is North America editor at OCCRP
Ilya Lozovsky is a senior writer at OCCRP
Eli Moskowitz is an investigative journalist at OCCRP
Will Neal is a journalist
Stelios Orphanides is an investigative journalist
Miranda Patrucic is editor in chief of OCCRP
Olesya Shmagun is an investigative reporter at OCCRP
Graham Stack is an editor at OCCRP
Tom Stocks is a senior investigator at OCCRP
Drew Sullivan is publisher of OCCRP
Julia Wallace is deputy editor in chief at OCCRP
Jonny Wrate is an investigative reporter at OCCRP
Data
Jan Strozyk is chief data editor at OCCRP
Research
Lara Dihmis is a reporter/researcher at OCCRP
Misha Gagarin is a researcher at OCCRP
Karina Shedrofsky is head of research at OCCRP
Alina Tsogoeva is a researcher at OCCRP
Fact-Checking
Ivana Jeremić is a fact checker at OCCRP
Olena LaFoy is a fact checker at OCCRP
Bojana Pavlović is a fact checker at OCCRP
Dima Stoianov is a fact checker at OCCRP
Media and Research Partners
Anti-Corruption Data Collective, Bird.bg (Bulgaria), Delfi Estonia, Follow the Money (Netherlands), Forbes (USA), Frontstory.pl (Poland), The Guardian (UK), infoLibre (Spain), Inside Story (Greece), Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak (Slovakia), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), IrpiMedia (Italy), MANS (Montenegro), Miami Herald (USA), Le Monde (France), NDR (Germany), Oštro (Slovenia/Croatia), profil (Austria), Re:Baltica, Reporter.lu (Luxembourg), Siena.lt (Lithuania), SVT (Sweden), Tamedia (Switzerland), De Tijd (Belgium), Transparency International UK
Use of Leaked Data
We would like to thank the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for allowing us to draw on the Panama Papers, the Pandora Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the FinCEN Files for this research. Both the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers were leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and explored in collaborative projects led by ICIJ. The FinCEN Files were obtained by BuzzFeed News, which helped coordinate a project with ICIJ in 2020 that delved into the files. ICIJ obtained the Pandora Papers and shared them with media partners around the world.
Translation
Romina Colman is Latin America data editor at OCCRP
Ilia Donskikh is the Russian website managing editor at OCCRP
Nathan Jaccard is a Latin America editor at OCCRP
Design and Graphics
James O’Brien is head of web at OCCRP
Edin Pašović is a design editor at OCCRP
Interactive and Web
Mark Nightingale is head of journalism products at OCCRP
Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
Explore this interactive project via the embedded frame below, or at this link.
The biggest loss of life at a European land border in living memory occurred this year and it was barely reported at the time. On June 24, 2022 at least 23 people died and 77 remain missing after a group of African asylum seekers attempted to enter a border post in Melilla, a Spanish exclave on the coast of North Africa.
Despite the appalling death toll, serious questions remain unanswered by Spain and Morocco over what happened. Spain continues to deny that any deaths took place on its territory and has given only a partial account of its role despite having at least two sources of aerial footage documenting the events that unfolded on the day.
The lack of sustained and independent reporting on the day of chaos and death has so far prevented any serious shortcomings in the countries’ accounts from coming to light. EL PAÍS, Lighthouse Reports and partners undertook the most advanced visual investigation to date to establish fully what happened at the border post and how an attempt to seek protection in Europe led so many people to a violent death.