Crypto investigator Tigran Gambaryan is still being held by Nigeria in its apparent attempt to get at his employer, Binance—a situation that has evolved from a shock into a travesty. Glad to see other former federal agents calling for the US to do more. therecord.media/binance-nigeri…

Finally received an answer: no update & 'Mr. Savchuk is here'.

Interested in more information on the Russian Red Cross #KremlinLeaks and what is currently happening in Geneva? 👉vsquare.org/kremlin-leaks-…

De la investigación de la Fiscalía portuguesa sobre las coimas que pagó el BES a funcionarios venezolanos surge una conexión entre Samark López y Rafael Reiter, específicamente de los años 2009 y 2014 a través de una empresa que se llamó Safeleader

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And our Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project partner Toronto Star’s version thestar.com/business/you-r…

Great work by my Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project colleagues and partners at Toronto Star , folks are asking where’s the actual proof. Well right here! occrp.org/en/investigati…

And congrats to teams from ICIJ Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and paper trail media for the @sabew #sabewbib award for #CyprusConfidential !!! It takes a network to fight a network

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Thanks @sabew for great data panel to start Friday conference in Chicago, glad to pitch Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project ‘s Aleph database to business journalists. Our motto is it takes a network to fight a network , and we give you free tools

Thrilled to be back in Chicago for Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to moderate panel SABEW which includes WBEZ investigative data journalist Matt Kiefer

Georgia’s controversial “foreign agents” bill has passed its first hearing.

It would require NGOs & media funded from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence,' drawing comparisons to a Russian law critiqued for suppressing independent voices: occrp.org/en/daily/18660…

What he said

The Republic of Georgia passed on first reading a Russian style foreign agent law over large protests. The law, supported by the Georgia Dream party, is equally draconian to the Russian law and will cause large problems for small publishers. It's also anti-democratic.

🇲🇽 Unknown assassins murdered the mayor of a Mexican town in Michoacán province, a stronghold for criminal cartels & political violence.

Guillermo Torres Roja and his 14-year-old son were attacked in a restaurant. Torres Roja died in the hospital.

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It was a great honor to present at #SEJ2024 the story we published on Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project about how the US Retirement Manager TIAA bought farms in the Brazilian Cerrado from alleged land grabbers with Brazilian Sugar Giant Cosan.

Outrageous! When a reporter for Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project member
Slidstvo asked about the head of the Ukrainian military's cybersecurity branch and his family's large unexplained wealth, soldiers showed up while he was shopping for food to induct him into the army. slidstvo.info/english-storie…

Strike up Friends in Low Places

Even as Western support for Ukraine looks increasingly doubtful, stories continue to emerge of the depredations endured by those under Russian occupation.

Among them is brutal torture and grotesque sexual violence.

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The ex Austrian security officer who spied on me for Jan Marsalek and the FSB has finally been arrested. Turns out he sold to the FSB the content of 3 phones of top Austrian government officials, stolen during a repair from water damage.
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