Roxana Jipa is an investigative journalist and fact-checker based in Bucharest.

With more than 20 years experience, she is a member of RISE Project Romania, a platform affiliated with Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).  

Roxana has investigated corruption and organised crime in local or cross-border media projects. Also, she has been fact checking investigative stories for RISE Project and OCCRP. 

Roxana Jipa

Basic information

Name
Roxana Jipa
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
Corruption and organised crime
Country
Romania
City
Bucharest
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Supported projects

Green Energy: A Fuel for Corruption

  • Energy
  • Environment

BUCHAREST / PAZARDZHIK —  The green transition is not always a clean one. The European frenzy for green energy projects, and the massive funds assigned for this process generated a chaotic battle for agricultural lands in Romania and Bulgaria, countries particularly vulnerable to corruption risks.  

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Dirty Money for Clean Rivers

  • Corruption
  • Environment

BUCHAREST - For almost 9 years, Romania has been criticised and monitored by the European Commission for allowing the large-scale destruction of several mountain rivers for the purpose of building micro-hydropower plants, without complying with the Water Framework and Habitats Directives.

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RISE Project

Toxic business: a tribute to progress

  • Environment
  • Healthcare

LELESTI - For years they inhaled it. Former workers of the asbestos-cement factories in Romania worked without any protection against the toxic dust. Except a milk ratio. It was supposed to protect against cancer and toxicity, or so they believed during communism. Long privatized and shut down, the factories still have their marks on people’s lungs. The diseases appear decades after the exposure.

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