For our investigation about dubious deals with Romanian forrests we cooperated with journalists from Romania. The “Rise Project” and the “Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Projects” helped us to vet information and to organise court and trade register documents.
We reported about a contract (see below) which was written to sell 43.000 hectare of forrest for 140 million Euro. But the agreed contract was never put into reality. Maybe because the Romanian forrest administration RomSilva challanged the owners rights in court.
However, business of that dimension is of interest for the Romanian public and so the “Rise Project” reported in the Romanian language.