The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a consortium of investigative centers, media, and journalists operating in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Central America.
A leading independent journalist in Kyrgyzstan says police planted drugs on him as retribution for his exposés of corruption. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s how sex, lies, and secret surveillance were deployed against one of the country’s top investigative outlets.