Paul Radu | |
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Nationality | Romanian |
Citizenship | Romania |
Occupation | Investigative journalist |
Employer | Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Summer School of Investigative Reporting |
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 based in Bucharest, Romania. [1] He is the director of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which he and cofounder 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 investigates transnational crime in Eastern Europe. [5] He has received multiple international awards for his journalism. [6] He believes that journalists should not be activists, but should rather trust that objective journalism is a sufficient contribution to whatever causes one might otherwise advocate. [7] He teaches at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Summer School of Investigative Reporting. [8] In 2008, he sat on a Central European Initiative jury to name that year's best investigative journalist; the jury chose Drago Hedl. [9] In 2009, he appeared on 48 Hours investigating sexual slavery and human trafficking in Romania. [10] He has also investigated human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [11]
As of 2020 [update] Radu is being 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. His colleague Khadija Ismayilova OCCRP's lead reporter in Azerbaijan, is a key witness in the case, but detained in December 2014, sentenced in September 2015 to seven-and-a-half years in prison on trumped-up charges, conditionally released in May 2016, and subject to a travel ban and has been unable to leave the country despite numerous applications to do so. [12]