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RFE/RL and partners win ‘Tom Renner Award’ for Central Asia money-laundering report

April 7, 2020

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the Organized Crime And Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), and OCCRP member center Kloop have received the prestigious 2019 Tom Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia, a six-part report revealing the operations of a massive underground network that funneled more than $700 million from Kyrgyzstan. Read More