We have a winner.
The 2020 Corrupt Person of the Year is…
🏆 Jair Bolsonaro 🏆
Learn why our judges selected the President of Brazil over the other three finalists.
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- 🇰🇪 We’re receiving many messages and emails today from citizens in Kenya. We are listening and reading.
- 🇰🇪Kenya has an abduction problem. Since anti-government protests in June, at least 82 people have been kidnapped; 29 are still missing. Some have been found dead. One kidnapping victim, activist Bob Njagi, was snatched from a public bus in August. ⤵️
- Replying to @OCCRP🇰🇪 Kenyan President William Ruto received the most public nominations in OCCRP history — over 40,000. Kenyans called out corruption, youth unemployment, and a contentious finance bill. Their extraordinary outpouring and demands for accountability were remarkable.
- BREAKING: Leaked bank records show how Credit Suisse helped dictators, corrupt politicians, spies, and criminals hide their illicit fortunes. This is #SuisseSecrets, one of the world’s largest investigations into the world of Swiss banking 🇨🇭
- BREAKING: OCCRP and partners have uncovered dozens of assets tied to Russia’s ruling class. And this is just the beginning. We'll continue to identify and catalog their yachts, mansions, and other ill-gotten gains here, in #RussianAssetTracker 🔍 occrp.org/en/asset-track…
- 🦹 We need your nomination for Corrupt Person of the Year! For 10+ years, OCCRP has used this award to spotlight individuals who have done the most to advance organized crime and corruption around the world. Tell us your selection here:
- A warm welcome to our new followers from Kenya! 🇰🇪 As we begin 2025, we are inspired to continue our commitment to uncovering and exposing crime and corruption in Kenya and beyond.
- BREAKING: Leaked emails reveal that a Kremlin-linked lobbying group offered payments to several European politicians to promote pro-Russia policies. Legitimizing the annexation of Crimea being chief among them. Here’s what we found👇 #KremlinConnection
- Replying to @OCCRPBut nominations aren’t votes. Our judges review all nominations, but the final decision belongs to the judges. It’s not an (un)popularity contest.
- Serbia’s finance minister sent his children to a private school whose tuition cost roughly 5x his salary at the time. We followed the money, and this is what we found:
- UPCOMING: Leaked records of 18,000 bank accounts holding assets worth $100+ billion. OCCRP and 47 other media outlets have been working on one of the world’s largest investigations into the shadowy world of Swiss banking. It’s called #SuisseSecrets
00:00 - Chinese drone manufacturer DJI stopped selling its products in Russia and Ukraine after the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion — yet its drones have still ended up on battlefields. How? We reveal how Russian firms are importing them via Kazakhstan. occrp.org/en/investigati…
- NEW: On the eve of Catalonia's 2017 vote for independence, mysterious Russians reportedly offered 10,000 troops to help the territory break from Spain. Now OCCRP and partners reveal new details about this #RussianOffer, how it was made — and by whom. 1/
