Victor Van Driessche is a Belgian investigative journalist working for Pano, the flagship investigative programme of VRT, the Flemish public broadcaster. He also contributes reports to Terzake, VRT's main current affairs programme, and writes for vrt.be.
Van Driessche describes himself as a "dossier obsessive", a journalist who thrives on complex, document-heavy investigations. His work spans a broad range of subjects, though he has a particular affinity for fraud investigations and undercover reporting. Recent stories include an exposé of fraud at the OCMW social welfare centre in Anderlecht, an investigation into how harmful vapes are reaching young people on a mass scale, a report on how Israeli forces have destroyed Belgian-funded humanitarian infrastructure in the Palestinian territories, and an investigation into hawala networks, the informal money transfer systems that operate largely outside formal financial oversight.
Across these varied subjects, a consistent thread runs through his journalism: an interest in how systems (social, financial, political) are exploited or undermined, and who bears the consequences.
