Frederik Obermaier

Frederik Obermaier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling book author living in Munich (Germany). He co-founded „paper trail media“. Obermaier's work focuses largely on tax-havens, corruption, extremism and intelligence services worldwide. He has taken part in numerous award-winning investigations, among others by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, the Forbidden-Stories-project. In 2019, Obermaier was part of an investigative team which revealed the existence of a video showing the head of Austria's far-right party FPÖ, Heinz-Christian Strache, promising government contracts to a women claiming to be a Russian millionaire. The reporting led to the resignation of Austria's vice chancellor. Together with his colleague Bastian Obermayer (with whom he is not related) Frederik Obermaier initiated and coordinated the "Panama Papers"-revelations after an anonymous source provided 2,6 terabytes of internal data from the dubious Panamanian lawfirm Mossack Fonseca to them. Obermaier co-authored an international bestseller about the project.