Vlad Lavrov, Ukraine, is a staff writer at the English-language publication Kyiv Post and regional editor for OCCRP.
He reported from the frontline of the Kyiv barricades, and was a leader in the famous YanukovychLeaks campaign to make thousands of the former Ukraine President’s rescued documents available online.
He worked on OCCRP's Offshore Crime Inc. and Proxy Platform projects; the latter was shortlisted for the European Press Prize and the Outstanding International Reporting award. With OCCRP he investigated cigarette smuggling in the Ukraine-EU border area in Tobacco Roads, and participated in ICIJ’s Tobacco Underground, which detailed organized crime’s involvement in tobacco smuggling. Subsequently he was awarded the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Tom Renner Award, the Overseas Press Club of America Award, and the Online Journalism Award for best web coverage of international affairs.

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Five Charged Over Alleged Body Parts Theft

Parts from fifty-six human corpses were improperly fed into the international tissue market from a state-run Ukrainian morgue, according to prosecutors who have filed criminal charges against five of the morgue’s employees.

Dec 21, 2012
Prosecutors allege the Ivano-Frankovsk morgue’s deputy director, three coroners and a nurse deceived families into signing consent forms before tissue was obtained from corpses
Investigation: Skin and Bone

Ukraine Morgue Official Charged

IMPACT: Ukrainian authorities will press charges against a morgue official who is alleged to have illegally recovered human tissue from a corpse intended for the international market.

Oct 09, 2012
Photographs allegedly taken inside NIK1 morgue in southern Ukraine by funeral home owner Dmytro Smyrnov after he grew suspicious of the morgue's activities
Investigation: Skin and Bone