Germany’s taxpayer-funded state broadcaster NDR is desperately making an attempt to bury its personal investigative documentary that exposes the shady journalist community OCCRP. The explanation? The movie caught OCCRP chief Drew Sullivan on digital camera bragging that his group was “answerable for overthrowing 5 – 6 governments.”
The revelations are devastating. NDR reporters uncovered that OCCRP—whose media companions embody Der Spiegeland Die Zeit—was secretly bankrolled from america for many years. When the documentary turned out to be essential as a substitute of a love letter, Sullivan reportedly pressured NDR to kill the venture. The state broadcaster complied, scrapping the documentary earlier than it aired and chopping ties with OCCRP in 2023. The scandal lastly leaked in December 2024 by means of the French platform Mediapart.
Censorship and Threats Towards an Elected Official
Now, as OCCRP is embroiled in an enormous EU funding scandal, the suppressed movie has resurfaced. MEP Petr Bystron (AfD) revealed by means of an inquiry that OCCRP obtained €600,000 from EU coffers instantly after the European elections—proper after the community ran smear campaigns towards conservative candidates, together with Bystron himself.
Regardless of this interference, Bystron gained his seat and revealed the hidden movie on-line. That’s when NDR struck again, issuing him a cease-and-desist order and threatening fines of as much as €50,000. The state broadcaster seems terrified that Sullivan’s personal phrases would possibly attain the general public.
OCCRP in Panic Mode
Sullivan and OCCRP reacted furiously on X, dismissing the leaked documentary as “assaults” on their group. However Sullivan provided no clarification as to how quoting his personal on-camera admissions could possibly be an “assault.” OCCRP additionally dodged questions from the Berliner Zeitung about its EU funds, merely insisting it was nonetheless “unbiased.”
Sullivan’s radical views are additionally on show elsewhere. After the brutal homicide of American conservative Charlie Kirk, the OCCRP boss gloated: “A second of silence just isn’t acceptable. He was no hero. […] He was a racist, an anti-democratic liar.”
U.S. Fallout
The scandal is reverberating throughout the Atlantic. President Donald Trump already minimize OCCRP’s lifeline by halting its funding through USAID. And now, U.S. media like Gateway Pundit and InfoWars are exposing how this so-called “investigative” community has been weaponized to govern elections and topple governments worldwide.
