Ahmed Ashour is an award-winning Investigative Journalist and Editor. He has conducted and contributed to cross-border investigations that have won and/or been shortlisted for several awards, in collaboration with ARIJ, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Deutsche Welle (DW), and the Center for International Asset Recovery (CIFAR), in cooperation with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). He also contributed to major projects including the FinCEN Files (2020), the Pandora Papers (2021), the Cyprus Confidential (2023), and the Damascus Files (2025), led by the ICIJ.

His investigations have exposed the smuggling of Yemeni antiquities to Europe and Gulf countries during the war, the trafficking of Captagon from Syria to Libya, the illegal trade in rare falcons between Libya and Gulf states, illicit foreign assets owned by influential figures in the former Egyptian and Sudanese regimes, and the use of advanced weapons—developed with European research support—in Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza.

Ahmed Ashour Investigative journalist and Editor