The leak of the JERSEY OFFSHORE files came about as a consequence of one of the great journalistic tragedies of recent history. In October 2017 Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb while investigating high-level corruption in her country, an investigation spurred by the 2016 leak of tax haven files known as the Panama Papers. Her murder shocked journalists around the world. It led to a multi-country collaboration of investigative journalists, run by the French...
by Nicky Hager
Everything about the financial services company La Hougue was supposed to stay secret for ever, and for more than 40 years it did. Secrecy was essential: the company made its living not just by creating trusts and companies that might be used for tax dodging and money laundering; it actually helped organise all aspects of the tax dodging and money laundering for its clients. It’s secret workings give a rare inside view of the dirty side...
A sunny morning. Early September. Leipzig. Panic. The highly secure communication platform run by European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) was experiencing a nasty glitch.
I started typing a direct message to engage the user Stefano but a number of different other colleagues started to reply under his username.
Me: Are you Stefano?
Stefano: Hugo. Don’t ask me how this is possible.
Stefano: Hey, woow what’s going on?! I’m Christoph!
During that morning, a bug in our authentification...
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The basis for cooperation among EIC member organizations is the regular sharing of information and consultations on possible story ideas. We have regular meetings and work on several fronts: tackling European stories; finding, compiling, processing or analyzing big data-sets; developing under Free Software license our own Network collaborative tools, platforms und information...
Discussions related to establishing this European Network started in 2015 and involved Jörg Schmitt, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Alfred Weinzierl and Klaus Brinkbäumer from Spiegel and Stefan Candea from the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism. Alain Lallemand from Le Soir joined the group, and later John Hansen from Politiken, Milorad Ivanovic from Newsweek Serbia, Florian Klenk from Falter, Paula Guisado from El Mundo, Vlad Odobescu from The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Michael Bird from The...
By EIC.network
After finishing the publication of almost 100 stories under the Malta Files project, EIC.network has released in public the part of the data used for this research originating from the public Malta Registry of Companies. We have re-arranged, cleaned and made searchable in new ways the public information contained in the register.
Here you can find the latest output of the scrap of the Malta Registry, as of mid June 2017. Also here you...
By Alex Morega, RCIJ/The Black Sea
The technology behind scouting through the largest leak in sports history
For more visit our Football Leaks homepage
In April 2016, the European Investigative Collaborations network of 12 major national news organisations received a dataset detailing shady business in football, and set about investigating the mass of rich contents.
This consisted of email inboxes, a bunch of PDF and Word documents, zip and rar archives, whatsapp conversations and encrypted hushmail communication. Out...
by EIC
During the past weeks, EIC.network partners have published stories related to the International Criminal Court (ICC), its first prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and the criminal policy instituted by him, as well as his wide network of influence that includes current ICC staff.
#CourtSecrets articles are based on over 40,000 documents, financial statements, diplomatic cables and correspondence.
by EIC
European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) has evolved in less then a year from an informal group to a non-registered Association with it’s seat in Hamburg. By now EIC partners are representing a diverse spectrum of European investigative journalism players: traditional media, non-profit and digital players. So we choose the most appropriate structure that can host the different mind-sets, organization types, skills, journalistic traditions and legal systems that co-exist in different corners of Europe, avoiding centralization and betting on...