How big is the presence of Cosa Nostra and Stidda 'Ndrangheta in Germany? And how important is Germany for the business of the Italian mafias? An update from the latest investigations of Grandango...
Giulio Rubino
Giulio Rubino is co-founder of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), a centre for investigative journalism based in Italy which is part of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the OCCRP Network
He has a masters degree in journalism from the University of Rome. He has written for Italian publications such as Terra, Il Manifesto and Carta. In 2011 he co-authored (with Cecilia Anesi and the Belgian journalist Delphine Reuter) Toxic Europe, an investigative journalism documentary that won the 2011 Best International Organised Crime Report Award and was shortlisted for the Data Journalism award 2102. Giulio works in team on investigations, mainly on organised crime, that have been published in Italy and abroad. He has worked on transnational investigations such as Food For Fraud, which has been published in the Guardian. Giulio has recently co-signed the investigation Mafia in Africa, produced by IRPI and ANCIR, African centre for investigative reporting, and published by Correctiv, the Mail&Guardian, Ilfattoquotidiano.it, l'Espresso and Courier Internacional. He has co-signed for Correctiv the investigation Hidden Fleet, that unveiled a network of Syrian traffickers using the Mediterranean Sea as a highway to smuggle migrants, weapons and hashish. Always with Correctiv, Giulio is working with Cecilia Anesi on the drug trafficking of the 'Ndrangheta in Northern Europe, Africa and Latin America. He also writes - with Cecilia Anesi and Margherita Bettoni - a Mafia Blog for Correctiv.
Italian organised crime is a global problem, yet all syndicates maintain strongholds in their local area. Three newsrooms - Grandangolo in Agrigento (Sicily), Il Dispaccio in Reggio Calabria, CORRE...
The hidden fleet: investigation on the smuggling of weapons and refugees across the Med
In its investigation entitled The Hidden Fleet (Deecember 2015), the CORRECT!V team uncovered a network of Syrian traffickers who smuggle migrants, hashish and weapons around the Mediterranean Sea u...
How IRPI conducted an international investigation working with 15 victims of sexual violence after the story was leaked to reporters. The story, nicknamed "the couchsurfing rapist" was published in ...
Italian organised crime is a global problem, yet all syndicates maintain strongholds in their local area. Three newsrooms - Grandangolo in Agrigento (Sicily), Il Dispaccio in Reggio Calabria, Correc...
A joint investigation by the journalism centers IRPI in Italy and ANCIR in South Africa together with quattrogatti.info looking at how Italian mafias have permeated Africa's economies. From money l...
How can crime be investigated cross-border by investigative reporters? OCCRP and IRPI provide some practical examples. Organised in association with IRPI - Investigative Reporting Project Italy
To what extent has the Sicilian mafia infiltrated the German economy? An ambitious project, possibly the first extensive German research into the matter, has with an innovative format unveiled how Ger...