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<h2 id="investigations">Investigations</h2> <p>In 2012 and 2013, RISE exposed several national and international cases of organized crime and corruption with serious social, economic and political impact, such as: </p> <ul><li>identified secret businesses and assets of high-rank Romanian politicians (The Businesses of the Power and of the Opposition)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>revealed financial connections between prominent Church officials and organized crime (The Affairs of the Church)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>untangled networks of hidden money transactions between large international corporations and public authorities in Romania (The Ericsson Case)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>worked on large tax evasion cases involving cross-border food import-export structures (The Market Sultans)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> and The Horse Meat Affair<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>traced Egypt's public money hidden in Romania and abroad by <a href="/facts/Hosni_Mubarak/g8XscB5Q">Hosni Mubarak</a> and his associates (Mubarak's Money Hidden in Romania)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> and that of Syria's dictator Bashar Al Assad (Bashar's Clan Runs Business in Romania<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li>uncovered and prevented fraud in Romania and Moldova (The Bingo Fraud Exported to Moldova)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li> <li>disclosed agreements and corruption cases behind a major gold exploitation project in Romania (The Rosia Montana Affair)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li> <li>an assassination attempt on a Russian banker which led the Moldovan government to ban the pro-Russian political party Patria from the 2014 elections and the party's leader to flee the country (investigation made along with colleagues from <a href="/facts/RISE_Moldova/u9n5lyGV">RISE Moldova</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li></ul> <p>RISE Project investigations have been quoted in local<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> and international media,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> and some of its members are winners of prestigious international journalism awards such as: the <a href="/facts/Daniel_Pearl/KuKkFF0j">Daniel Pearl</a> Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting (part of an <a href="/facts/Organized_Crime_and_Corruption_Reporting_Project/YQedbhFw">OCCRP</a> project),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> The Global Shining Light Award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> and <a href="/facts/Investigative_Reporters_and_Editors/622JFBbc">Investigative Reporters and Editors</a> Tom Renner Award for crime reporting.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> </p><p>Following an investigation into <a href="/facts/Liviu_Dragnea/fTWRvPLJ">Liviu Dragnea</a> the Romanian Data Protection Authority (ANSPDCP) used a <a href="/facts/GDPR/RMLY6ohr">GDPR</a> request to demand information on the RISE Project's sources.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <p>In 2019, Attila Biro from the RISE Project and his colleague from <a href="/facts/Bivol.bg/Gvx5N9rB">Bivol.bg</a> Dimitar Stoyanov received the Axel Springer Award for young journalists for a joint investigation into the abuse of <a href="/facts/European_Union/6GYcR8qM">European Union</a> funds.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.riseproject.ro">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"American Journalism Review". 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