The 2025 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism was awarded to “Follow the Money” and 13 newsrooms for exposing Western shipowners’ sale of 230 ageing tankers, worth over $6 billion, to Russia’s shadow fleet. The investigation revealed sanction-evasion routes, opaque ownership structures, environmental risks, and European connections in crew management. The work involved data analysis, satellite tracking, and interviews, highlighting Europe’s entanglement in Russia’s war economy and the human impact of illicit shipping.
Source: European Parliament
