Paul Radu | |
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Nationality | Romanian |
Citizenship | Romania |
Occupation | Investigative journalist |
Organization(s) |
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism |
Known for | Investigating transnational crime in Eastern Europe |
Paul Radu is an investigative journalist from Romania. [1] He is the co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which he and co-founder Drew Sullivan received the Special Award by the European Press Prize. [2] [3] He is also one of the cofounders of the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism. [4]
He has received multiple international awards for his journalism. [5] In 2008, he sat on a Central European Initiative jury to name that year's best investigative journalist; the jury chose Drago Hedl. [6] In 2009, he appeared on 48 Hours investigating sexual slavery and human trafficking in Romania. [7] He has also investigated human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [8]
In 2020 Radu was sued for defamation in London by Azerbaijani MP, Javanshir Feyziyev, over two articles in OCCRP's award-winning Azerbaijan Laundromat series about money-laundering out of Azerbaijan. The case was discontinued two weeks before the trial was to start. [9]
Radu is the executive producer of the award-winning film “The Killing of a Journalist.” [10]
In 2023, he co-founded Floodlight: Fiction in the Public Interest, an initiative that brings together investigative journalists and filmmakers together to make tv series and films. [11]
Also in 2023, Radu oversaw the NarcoFiles project, a series of investigations that revealed the inner workings of transnational smuggling gangs from Latin America to Europe. [12]