Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Application by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which "provides an investigative reporting platform for a worldwide network of independent media centers and journalists focused on exposing crime and corruption and catalyzing positive change, including promoting policy reform and accountability for bad actors", to take discovery from BSG Resources Ltd., Alvarez & Marsal Holdings LLC, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP, and the Marginalised Affected Property Owners for use in legal proceedings in Romania brought by "Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz" against "OCCRP, its principal Paul Radu, and OCCRP’s investigative journalism partner in Romania, RISE Project Romania" for alleged defamation, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Azattyk Media Institution to take discovery from Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas for use defending a libel action filed in Kyrgyzstan by Iskender Ismailovich Matraimov, Raimbek Ismailovich Matraimov, Minovar Shabyevna Jumaeva, Uulkan Sulaymanovna Turgunova, and Ismail Matraimov Foundation, all of Kyrgyzstan, against Ali Toktakunov, of the Czech Republic; Azattyk Media Institution, Kloop Media Public Foundation, and 24 kg Information Agency, all of Kyrgyzstan, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.