Andrei has been a member of RISE Project since 2014, and in 2019 he joined the investigative platform Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter in television and print media — Evenimentul Zilei, Reporterii Realității, and În Premieră.
Since 2006, Andrei has conducted investigations into organized crime groups, human and organ trafficking, corruption, and environmental crime.
He has reported on the behind-the-scenes of the “Bechtel affair,” the largest illegal restitution in Romania’s history — the Ghika Comănești case, with damages exceeding €300 million — and on how illegally harvested timber was connected to the business of Romania’s largest wood processing company, Holzindustrie Schweighofer.
He has coordinated and produced a series of environmental investigations into illegal logging. These investigations formed part of the complaints submitted to the European Commission, which subsequently took legal action against Romanian authorities.
Andrei has collaborated with media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Arte.
In 2016, he won the Gold Award for Best Investigative Report at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, and in 2011 he was a finalist in the Investigative Documentary category at the Association for International Broadcasting in London.
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