EU funding investigations of sports corruption and money laundering
Money laundering, war crimes prosecutions in Europe and corruption in sport are among 14 investigative journalism projects from across the European Union that receive grants under the second round of IPI’s IJ4EU Investigation Support Scheme for cross-border journalism. An independent jury awarded a combined €430,000 for investigations.
Run by International Press Institute, the Investigation Support Scheme is the grant programme of the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund. In August, the jury awarded a total of €420,000 after the scheme’s first call of the year.
In no particular order, the now funded projects:
- A cross-border investigation led by Follow the Money into democratic oversight of EU Recovery Funds spending – €50,000
- An investigation led by a team of six journalists from Spain, Italy and Greece into the criminalisation of human rights activists – €28,360
- A cross-border investigation into international money laundering linked to a paramilitary organisation – €25,100
- An investigation by a cross-border team of freelance journalists into war crimes prosecutions in Europe – €19,200
- A cross-border investigation into a malicious form of financial fraud worth billions of euros – €28,800
- An investigation led by journalist consortium Delfi and Balkan-based organization BIRN’s Reporting Democracy into the Belarus–EU border crisis – €45,200
- A cross-border investigation into money laundering in real estate – €15,000
- A cross-border investigation into Europe’s illegal timber trade and its effects on forests – €18,480
- An investigation by a team of journalists in four countries into corruption in European sport – €41,800
- A cross-border investigation led by Átlátszó Erdély into Hungarian electioneering in neighbouring countries – €21,650
- An investigation led by 444.hu and LUPA into cross-border corruption and money laundering – €16,230
- A cross-border investigation into activities by the Russian military intelligence agency in Europe – €50,000
- An investigation into Europe’s COVID-19 vaccines market by a cross-border team of freelance journalists – €35,200
- A cross-border investigation into systemic obstacles to fair trial faced by asylum seekers in Europe – €35,000
The Investigation Support Scheme provides grants of up to €50,000 to help journalists across the EU collaborate on transnational stories in the public interest.
The 14 teams awarded include journalists based in 30 countries — 18 EU member states, two EU candidate countries and 10 other countries including Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
The jury was chaired by Lydia Cacho Riberio, an award-winning Mexican investigative journalist living in exile in Spain.
The other members of the jury were Simon Robinson, global managing editor of Reuters; Natalia Antelava, co-founder of Coda Story; Harry Karanikas, Greek investigative filmmaker and reporter; and Leila Bičakčić, director of the Centre for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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