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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
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 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 June 2023: with ex-Israeli military intelligence officer Yair Samban on terrorism financing

In this special one-year anniversary edition of our website and podcast, we dive deep into terrorism financing with field expert Yair Samban, who is currently a specialist consultant at Pegasystems, an IT company, and a former officer with Israeli military intelligence, tasked with analysing money flows to detect potential terrorists. Samban also wrote a book…

June 29, 2023
Washington Post and Reporter shed light on Trump social media firm financing

The top U.S. newspaper picked up on previous coverage of Paxum and its executives by Reporter.London, teaming up with this outlet and freelance journalist Matt Bernardini to expose the details of a line of financing provided by Paxum’s Anton Postonikov to Donald Trump’s social media network. Among the revelations was that Postolnikov was connected to…

May 17, 2023
Owner of Paxum, the fintech linked to Russia and Trump, donated to Ron DeSantis

LONDON–A man linked by US prosecutors to suspicious financing of a company belonging to Donald Trump has also made a substantial donation to Trump’s rival Ron DeSantis. Anton Postolnikov, with a given address in Miami Beach, Florida, appears on a public register of “friends of Ron DeSantis” as having given $30,000 on 29 March 2021…

March 16, 2023
Reporter and openDemocracy: call for sanctions on Transnistria

Reporter, collaborating with Irina Tabaranu, the editor of Transnistria-focused website Zona De Securitate, and openDemocracy, the UK-based news outlet, have exclusively revealed a call by influential sanctions campaigner Bill Browder to impose penalties on the regime in Transnistria over its treatment of pro-Ukraine dissident Victor Pleșcanov. Pleșcanov, whose case Reporter and Zona de Securitate have…

March 9, 2023
Reporter and The Guardian expose gross lapses at crypto casino Stake

Nice to see our name in print, in the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper no less. This was a great collaboration with The Guardian and The Observer, through their ace business reporter Rob Davies, who has long investigated issues relating to gambling and sport. It was also the first successful collaborative investigation brought by Reporter.London to…

October 3, 2022