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  • Reporter and Follow the Money exposed Monaco’s delays in criminal prosecution

    Reporter and Dutch investigative media outlet Follow the Money have exposed unexplained delays in a criminal investigation in Monaco, involving bank accounts alleged to contain proceeds of fraud and potentially sanctions evasion. Based on offshore company documents leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and an exclusive interview with pre-eminent global sanctions campaigner Bill…

    July 1, 2025
  • Crypto-jihad: Tether and FBI slow to stop Hamas funding, top analyst says

    LONDON—Global cryptocurrency provider Tether and the American government could have seized at least $10 million in crypto from Hamas, compared to just over $200,000, which was actually recovered last month. The US department of justice seized the USDT equivalent of $201,400 in March from terrorist organisation Hamas, according to a statement. The move came after…

    April 16, 2025
  • Reporter and 5 partners investigate the associate of top presidential candidate in Romania

    BUCHAREST — Mircea Geoană’s ex-campaign manager in Romania has business ties to a Russian who is close to the military and has campaigned for the Russian side in the Ukraine war. The campaign manager’s son also did a deal with a former executive from a company founded by a sanctioned oligarch, while the dad was…

    October 8, 2024
  • Thrills, pills and political skills: Reporter and Daily Beast reveal dodgy links of Trump media funder

    LONDON–In collaboration with the Daily Beast and ace reporter Matt Bernardini, Reporter popped the lid off the connections between a Russian-American funder of Donad Trump’s social media startup, and a brand of male potency pills that were deemed dangerous by the US Food and Drug Administration. The exclusive investigation was published here.

    April 30, 2024
  • Arm’s-length: Uzbek tycoon with links to Putin pal and sanctioned Russian bank grabs strategic assets in Europe

    LONDON–Eriell Group is the top oil and gas services company in Uzbekistan, but until recently, its corporate headquarters was in Jersey. The firm’s chairman continues to do multi-million euro deals in Europe despite Eriell’s close ties to sanctioned Gazprombank and, allegedly, Gennady Timchenko, a sanctioned oligarch and personal friend of Vladimir Putin. The Eriell parent…

    March 26, 2024
  • Regulator imposes “extremely serious” restrictions on London fintech of Russian-American financier with links to Trump and DeSantis

    LONDON—Electronic payments company Dek-Co (aka Paydek) – whose owner is linked to Donald Trump’s Truth Social website as well as Paxum, another payments company catering to the online porn industry — has come under severe regulatory restrictions in September 2023, banning it from continuing to provide service to one existing client and from taking on…

    November 2, 2023
  • Reportercast October 2023 in Kyiv with Andrii Mikheiev: on asset confiscations and international law

    A podcast episode recorded in Kyiv on October 17 on the sidelines of a conference on the human rights abuses in Ukraine and Syria, organised by SUN (The Syria Ukraine Network), an NGO based in the US. Andrii Mikheiev is an international law expert with the International Center for Ukrainian Victory, a Kyiv-based NGO. He…

    October 26, 2023
  • Reportercast September 2023 with Steve Middleton: on the Ulster Bank scandal

    Steve Middleton is a financial adviser specialised in regulation and he has taken up the cause of Northern Irish business owners who accuse Ulster Bank (a subsidiary of NatWest group) of fraud. The allegations are only now coming to the fore but the issues date from the years around the great financial crisis of 2008…

    September 22, 2023
  • Reportercast August 2023 with Amazon’s Abigail Bishop on scams and other fraud

    Abigail Bishop is Amazon’s “Head of External Relations, Scams Prevention” and her job is to campaign to educate Amazon’s customers about scams being run against them around the world. These scams are of multiple types and growing increasingly sophisticated, with Bishop citing low reporting rates as an additional issue. She also spoke to host Matei…

    August 25, 2023
  • Reportercast July 2023 with Valeriya Melnichuk, strategic advisor for Ukraine

    Valeriya Melnichuk is a former BBC Monitoring journalist who has worked in the public relations department at the Ukrainian finance ministry during the intense period of the nationalization of PrivatBank and liquidation of numerous other smaller lenders which had been fraudulent or corrupt. Her boss at the time was finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk, who Reportercast…

    July 29, 2023
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