Paul Radu

Paul Radu is an investigative journalist from Romania. He is the co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which he and co-founder Drew Sullivan received the Special Award by the European Press Prize. He is also one of the cofounders of the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism.

He has received multiple international awards for his journalism. In 2008, he sat on a Central European Initiative jury to name that year's best investigative journalist; the jury chose Drago Hedl. In 2009, he appeared on 48 Hours investigating sexual slavery and human trafficking in Romania. He has also investigated human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2020 Radu was sued for defamation in London by Azerbaijani MP, Javanshir Feyziyev, over two articles in OCCRP's award-winning Azerbaijan Laundromat series about money-laundering out of Azerbaijan. The case was discontinued two weeks before the trial was to start.

Radu is the executive producer of the award-winning film “The Killing of a Journalist.”

In 2023, he co-founded Floodlight: Fiction in the Public Interest, an initiative that brings together investigative journalists and filmmakers together to make tv series and films.

Also in 2023, Radu oversaw the NarcoFiles project, a series of investigations that revealed the inner workings of transnational smuggling gangs from Latin America to Europe.