Mark Middel

Mark Middel is a correspondent based in Warsaw.

He works for the Dutch daily NRC, where he covers on Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Ukraine. He was previously NRC's correspondent in northern Netherlands, where he reporting on gas extraction in Groningen. For this, he won De Loep, the award for best investigative journalism in the Netherlands.

Basic information

Name

Mark Middel

Title

Correspondent

Expertise

Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Ukraine

Country

Poland

City

Warsaw

Mark Middel

Website

www.nrc.nl

Links

Supported projects

White Lines, Political Play

Corruption
Organised crime
Trafficking

BELGRADE - Cocaine production and trafficking has reached record levels, with organised crime groups from the Western Balkans playing a major role in the EU market, working with Dutch groups. The recent hacking of the encrypted messaging platform Sky ECC has revealed the inner workings of criminal organisations. A team of journalists from Serbia and the Netherlands investigated the impact of the violent cocaine trade linking their countries.