The Spanish language translation of my book CHASING SHADOWS is now out in paperback, e-book and audio as SOMBRAS DEL CRIMEN with Planeta!

Thank you to Revista Santiago for this excellent and detailed Spanish language review of SOMBRAS DEL CRIMEN 🙏

Abdullah Safieddine, the Tehran-based brother of Hashem Safieddine - the Hezbollah heir apparent confirmed as killed in an Israeli airstrike - makes a surprise appearance in a DEA sting operation in Hot Money: The New Narcos, ep. 6 - "Ties with Tehran": podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epi…

“This two-way, mutually beneficial trade meant that cash rich cocaine kingpins simultaneously helped Russian cyber criminals and elites to launder stolen crypto and access cash while evading western sanctions.” on.ft.com/4fXgUKw -Miles Johnson & Suzi Ring

A London-based man sanctioned by the US for laundering money for Russian spies and cocaine traffickers this year won a Ukrainian state contract to help build defenses for a key power plant. With Christopher Miller on.ft.com/4ioHKwS

🇺🇸 UK Uncovers Vast Crypto Laundering Ring For Gangsters And Russian Spies ▫Links with Dubai and Moscow ▫Two companies at network's heart ▫Drug traffickers evade sanctions ▫@milesmjohnson & Suzi Ring #frontpagestoday #USA Financial Times 🇺🇸

A London-based man won a $23m Ukrainian state contract for a project meant to defend Dnipro power plant from Russian attacks while secretly helping Moscow’s spy services to launder money and evade sanctions. Scoop w/ Miles Johnson Financial Times ft.com/content/57a3fe…

Top Financial Times scoop: how Assad siphoned $250mn of Syria’s cash to Moscow. Miles Johnson Chloe Cornish & Mehul Srivastava following the money as ever..... ft.com/content/84ef8b… via @ft

Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then-Syrian dictator was indebted to the Kremlin for military support and his relatives were secretly buying assets in Russia. on.ft.com/3OZunFC

Thank you to Global Investigative Journalism Network for including HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS in this great roundup of investigative podcasts from last year.

Still time to get your copy of this week’s FT Weekend and FT Weekend Magazine

My FT Weekend Magazine story “The Fugitive Prince” is available as a free audio version at the top of the webpage, read by me, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval and scored by Breen Turner. #longreads ft.com/content/51f883…

"He had fought his entire life to be accepted, yet here he was, facing disgrace and years behind bars, not as Prince Paul of Romania, but as Paul Lambrino, crook." Miles Johnson FT Weekend Magazine Financial Times #longreads longreads.com/2025/01/22/the…

Thank you to The Sunday Long Read for featuring my FT Weekend Magazine story “The fugitive prince” in their excellent weekly email round up:

🔎How do Russian criminal networks use crypto to launder illicit funds? #FinSec25 opened with a breakfast discussion featuring Miles Johnson of Financial Times and William Lyne of National Crime Agency (NCA) on Operation Destabilise, the NCA's successful investigation into a multi-billion dollar Russian money

How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions in arms deals gone wrong, w/ the brilliant Miles Johnson Russia's invasion sparked the biggest weapons procurement rush since WWII & foreign arms dealers, almost exclusively US and European, were eager to get involved on.ft.com/3Hdfsa8

British security officials are investigating whether Russia may be involved in three arson attacks on properties connected to Sir Keir Starmer, according to senior Whitehall figures. on.ft.com/4kyMEaL

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