OCCRP’s reporting generates real-world impact which we track over time.
Our Impact Department works to expand these results by connecting the findings from investigative reporting to groups dedicated to protecting democracy and combatting corruption and organized crime.
We believe that strategic alliances are essential to drive real change. OCCRP’s impact partners include a diverse set of civil society organizations and research institutions from around the world.
Since OCCRP began recording impact in 2009, our investigations have contributed to:
While corrupt officials and criminal networks are increasingly organized and coordinated globally, journalists and civil society have traditionally worked in silos. To bridge this gap, OCCRP and Transparency International (TI) launched the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC).
GACC was formed as a strategic partnership between OCCRP and TI to ensure investigative findings translate into tangible action. It works to expand these results by connecting our reporting to advocacy groups dedicated to protecting democracy and combatting corruption and organized crime. We believe that these strategic alliances are essential to drive real change, and today OCCRP’s impact partners include a diverse set of civil society organizations and research institutions from around the world.
Since these early days, evidence uncovered in hundreds of cross-border investigations conducted by OCCRP and its media partners has fueled the efforts of TI’s anti-corruption movement, leading to stronger advocacy campaigns and legal casework. As a result, the impact of our investigative reporting has grown: more policy gaps are being addressed, and corrupt players are facing consequences.
In response to the steady success of this model, the Consortium has grown. GACC programming now features collaborations with 100+ reporting partners and more than 95 civil society organizations in 70+ countries. A 2021 external evaluation found that GACC’s work led to a total of 228 real-world impacts during its first four years, and noted that five times as many outcomes were generated when OCCRP and TI worked together as opposed to on their own.
GACC enables OCCRP and other groups to pursue cross-border investigations across the world, supporting 200+ investigations to date.
GACC helps hundreds of journalists to access research, data, training, and security resources, and creates opportunities for allies to convene across silos.
GACC works with partners whose advocacy calls for action to address the global and national challenges revealed by investigative reporting – such as corporate secrecy, corruption’s professional enablers, and weak environmental protections.
Using revelations from investigative reporting, TI and other civil society partners make legal submissions that call for sanctions, criminal investigations, and other forms of legal accountability.
In 2025, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC) launched the Illicit Finance Data Lab to strengthen collaboration between investigative journalists, academic researchers, and data scientists.
Seismic shifts in investigative journalism and the wider information landscape have led to an abundance of real-world data on secret and illicit financial activity, from leaks, public disclosures, and commercial sources. Extracting value from this data, however, depends on harnessing greater processing and analytical power.
The new Illicit Finance Data Lab (the Lab) connects journalists with researchers so that both groups can more effectively use data to expose and understand corruption and dirty money flows. Activities include: identifying datasets for possible exchange; convening and match-making; producing practical guidance for responsible cooperation; and facilitating collaborative projects.
During a start-up phase supported by the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Lab involved researchers and journalists from more than 50 organizations, cultivated 13 collaborative projects, and produced a report on the lessons learned so far. Leading themes for ongoing work include cryptocurrency, illicit property investments, and the professional enablers of dirty money flows.
Learn more about the Illicit Finance Data Lab.
“OCCRP is sitting on a treasure trove of data. To tackle dirty money flows, we need new strategies for unlocking the knowledge it contains”
Alexandra Gillies
Chief of Impact, OCCRP
“Through the Illicit Finance Data Lab, we are excited to broaden the community of collaborators and increase our collective capacity to expose and undermine corruption.”
Michael Hornsby
Co-Director, ACDC
