Illegal cod on your table

2008-07-25

STOCKHOLM - The Swedish investigative reporters trio Troikan in it’s report "The Illegal Cod” uncovered how western companies cooperated with russian mafiaorganisations to fish in the Barents sea, the only place on earth where there is still a healty population of cod.

In the end the team could pinpoint a number of well-known Swedish consumer brands as responible for buying illegaly caught cod form the Barents Sea and marketing it to Swedish, and international, customers.

Read the research report in English under documents.

(Published in 2006)

Research Report (EN).doc

Two JF supported stories shortlisted for European Press Prize

2015-02-25

BRUSSELS - Two data-driven, cross-border journalism stories that were supported by Journalismfund.eu have been shortlisted for the Innovation Award of the European Press Prize 2014: The Migrants Files and The Belarus Networks.

ICIJ exposes offshore's global impact

2013-04-04

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Center for Public Integrity, released today its first of many reports from a 15-month investigation that cracks open the historically impenetrable world of offshore tax havens.

The world's most smuggled legal substance

2008-07-25

WASHINGTON, DC - “The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. Tobacco is the world’s most widely smuggled legal substance.”