Tag: reportercast
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Reportercast February 2026 with Jack Adamovic Davies: on Cambodia, crime and justice
read this article: Reportercast February 2026 with Jack Adamovic Davies: on Cambodia, crime and justiceCITY OF LONDON–Jack Adamovic Davies is the investigative reporter who exposed the Prince Group, a Cambodia-based organized crime gang now facing serious charges in the US. The group was sanctioned in the US and UK. While on staff at Radio Free Asia, Jack took on a lonely and at times terrifying mission to write about…
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Reportercast October 2023 in Kyiv with Andrii Mikheiev: on asset confiscations and international law
read this article: Reportercast October 2023 in Kyiv with Andrii Mikheiev: on asset confiscations and international lawA 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…
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Reportercast September 2023 with Steve Middleton: on the Ulster Bank scandal
read this article: Reportercast September 2023 with Steve Middleton: on the Ulster Bank scandalSteve 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…
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Reportercast June 2023: with ex-Israeli military intelligence officer Yair Samban on terrorism financing
read this article: Reportercast June 2023: with ex-Israeli military intelligence officer Yair Samban on terrorism financingIn 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…
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Reportercast May 2023: On crypto gambling with Philip Newall and Maira Andrade
read this article: Reportercast May 2023: On crypto gambling with Philip Newall and Maira AndradeInvestigative academics Philip Newall and Maira Andrade tell host Matei Rosca all about the intricacies of crypto gambling, a new type of gambling which has been found to pose risks both for consumers and the integrity of the financial system. They also discuss more broadly the latest regulations proposed by the UK government for gambling…
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Reportercast January 2023 with Dan Neidle, on the Nadhim Zahawi scandal, corporate transparency and libel law
read this article: Reportercast January 2023 with Dan Neidle, on the Nadhim Zahawi scandal, corporate transparency and libel lawThe last Reportercast of the season (meaning we’re taking a break to plan this experiment’s future) features Dan Neidle, a tax and transparency expert and founder of the Tax Policy Associates think tank, who has been in the news frequently in recent weeks over the key role he played in uncovering the scandal around Tory…
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Reportercast December 2022 with Garrett Ziegler on the Hunter Biden saga
read this article: Reportercast December 2022 with Garrett Ziegler on the Hunter Biden sagaHo, ho, ho… Merry Christmas to everyone, especially the people interested in our Reportercast. And this latest festive episode dropping today features a man who is at the heart of one of the biggest stories in the world, that of the controversies surrounding Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, alleged illegal lobbying…
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Reportercast November 2022: Valeria Hontareva on Ukraine’s reconstruction and banking reforms
read this article: Reportercast November 2022: Valeria Hontareva on Ukraine’s reconstruction and banking reformsWelcome, people, to November’s Reportercast, with a very distinguished guest – Valeria Hontareva, the former central bank governor of Ukraine (2014-2017), and now a world-famous expert on finance reforms, banking governance and monetary policy. Hontareva is also one of the bravest central bankers the world has ever seen, having closed dozens of dirty banks affiliated…
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Reportercast October 2022 with Alexandru Flenchea: Transnistria explainer
read this article: Reportercast October 2022 with Alexandru Flenchea: Transnistria explainerIn this special episode of Reportercast, Alexandru Flenchea, a former negotiator for Moldova’s government on the issue of Russia-occupied separatist Transnistria, and former advisor to the US embassy in Moldova, joins host Matei Rosca to discuss little-known Transnistria’s role in the Ukraine invasion. Flenchea, who also runs a Transnistria-focused NGO in Moldova called Initiative 4…
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Reportercast September 2022: Bradley Birkenfeld on whistleblowing
read this article: Reportercast September 2022: Bradley Birkenfeld on whistleblowingPeople, September’s Reportercast has appeared. Our guest for this edition is world-famous whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, a self-described “hammer looking for nails” known for exposing a multi-billion tax scam at UBS and receiving what at the time was the largest reward in US history for his disclosure, which led to the overhauling of the Swiss banking…