THE QUESTIONS ABOUT CONGRESS AND OCCRP

Although claiming to be an independent non-profit NGO, it is now apparent that OCCRP has received huge funding from US government agencies, many of whom are known to be involved in government-change operations in foreign countries. Essentially, OCCRP is an American deep state asset.

- JOYEETA BASU"

An extremely worrying investigation has come to light on the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), specifically about its links with the American deep state. OCCRP is relevant to India because of the reporting it has done on India, thus providing enough ammunition to the Congress party to take on the Narendra Modi government, specifically on the issue of an industrialist. It is this matter that the Congress has been using to stall Parliament over different sessions, including the ongoing winter session. What is worrying is that this body of investigative journalists—the world's largest—has been operating under the cover of independent and impartial journalism, thus covering themselves with a "holier-than-thou" shroud, whose words should not be doubted. But the truth is, all the while they have been serving the agenda of US agencies. Described as a "giant of investigative journalism", OCCRP in its own words is one of the largest investigative journalism organizations in the world, headquartered in Amsterdam and with staff across six continents. OCCRP claims to be "a mission-driven nonprofit newsroom that partners with other m