Paul and Pavla are back again this year, highlighting what’s new and noteworthy in investigating organized crime in 2023. Joining them is Stevan Dojcinovic. High level criminals have designed future...
Pavla Holcova
Based in Prague, Pavla Holcová is an investigative journalist and founder of investigace.cz. She is also an OCCRP regional editor for Central Europe. She has contributed to major cross-border projects such as the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, the Russian Laundromat, and the Azerbaijani Laundromat. Together with her colleague Ján Kuciak, she exposed ties between the Slovak government and Italian mafia. She has also investigated massive illegal arms sales to Syria during the war, explored links between the global cocaine trade and Balkan organized crime groups, and identified illegal real-estate investments by politicians.
In 2016, Pavla was selected among a hundred New Europe changemakers and a hundred people changing Central and Eastern Europe for the better, in 2018 she was selected for the European Young Leaders initiative, and in 2021 she won the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award.
The structure of organized crime has improved significantly over the last few decades and journalists have only started to understand the reach of transnational criminals in the last five years. In th...
A deadly mix of corruption, state capture and organised crime has killed journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta, Jan Kuciak in Slovakia and Javier Ortega and Paul Rivas in Colombia. Three differe...
Journalists under fire: protecting journalists reporting on corruption in Europe
Over the past 18 months, the murders of journalists in EU Member States have underscored just how dangerous a time it is for investigative journalists in Europe. Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jan Kuciak and...
Organized crime groups and corrupt politicians see the world as their playground. They use national and international financial infrastructure to bypass regulation in order to launder vast amounts of ...
Technology has had a massive impact on journalists' ability to carry out investigative work like never before. This panel will delve into the experiences of journalism leaders from diverse European ne...
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