NEW: Explosive documents revealed in an ongoing case against Carter-Ruck partner Claire Gill have pulled back the curtain on London’s reputation management industry. There’s more to come, but for now, have a read: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

And how many thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent defending this, I wonder? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

NEW: HMRC has charged its first company under a landmark new offence brought in eight years ago. We previously reported on the lack of any charges back in January of last year – and now, HMRC claims its first prosecution. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

NEW: The legal regulator has announced that it is prosecuting a senior lawyer at libel firm Carter-Ruck for an “improper” threat to sue. The complaint to the regulator was filed after our @tbij.bsky.social & @economist.com longread on the firm. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

NEW: Anduril, a weapons tech company, launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying blitz in the UK – and it’s already paying off in the millions. New @tbij.bsky.social piece, led by @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social, out now with @politico.com www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Oh. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

“The cell adjoining Amira’s held prisoners from Gaza, whose torture was unending. He could hear them screaming through the walls. One day he caught himself pleading with a bird that settled on a window ledge, begging it ‘not to leave, to stay and speak to me.’” harpers.org/archive/2025...

NEW: Queen Elizabeth’s private solicitor spent eight years helping to manage the offshore wealth of an alleged war criminal, Rifaat Al-Assad, the "butcher of Hama" and uncle of Bashar. Via @tbij.bsky.social & @theguardian.com www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Latest investigation from my esteemed colleague @edsiddons.bsky.social - give it a read...

🚨 Queen Elizabeth’s private solicitor spent eight years helping to manage the offshore wealth of the “butcher of Hama” – an uncle of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad who has repeatedly been accused of war crimes

NEW: Queen Elizabeth’s private solicitor spent eight years helping to manage the offshore wealth of an alleged war criminal, Rifaat Al-Assad, the "butcher of Hama" and uncle of Bashar. Via @tbij.bsky.social & @theguardian.com www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

NEW: Prosecutions of people who enable tax evasion have plummeted in recent years – worse still, HMRC gave Parliament inaccurate figures when questioned on this two years ago, sparking anger in the Lords. Via @tbij.bsky.social & in tomorrow's Observer: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Discreet Law "took steps to verify the information provided by its client and carried out independent research." The solution here is for libel courts to adopt the same standard of proof as the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

New from @conplnk.bsky.social, myself, and @beaudonelly.bsky.social on Bellingcat’s Financial Investigations Team in collaboration with @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social / @thetimes.com

“You guys really need to shut this down LOL.” Stellar story from Bloomberg on America’s "most convenient bank for money launderers." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

🚨Major US trader StoneX bought millions of dollars worth of gold from a company linked to illegal mining, deforestation and pollution in the Amazon

Whip-smart explainer from @simonlock.bsky.social & @tbij.bsky.social on (one part of) Roman Abramovich's tax dodge – leasing his own yachts back to himself. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.

Five whistleblowers alleged in interviews with ICIJ that Western oil companies’ dealings in Russia or Kazakhstan included improper payments in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law that prohibits bribes to foreign officials. https://buff.ly/40FJ2eJ

More than 40 MPs and peers have written to HMRC to say that Roman Abramovich's tax affairs must be investigated in the light of an investigation by the Guardian, @tbij.bsky.social and BBC, which found that the former Chelsea FC owner's companies may owe the UK taxman £1bn. [1/3]

NEW: Abramovich's multi-billion dollar hedge fund operation may have unlawfully dodged hundreds of millions in tax. Extraordinary investigation from @simonlock.bsky.social and @eleanorrose87.bsky.social + BBC, Guardian, OCCRP, Paper Trail, & others. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

According the SRA, it's actually very normal and fine to sue an investigative journalist on behalf of a sanctioned warlord because the warlord took umbrage with tweets that tied him the mercenary group he founded. Scoop by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...

NEW: Superb investigation by @simonlock.bsky.social & @eleanorrose87.bsky.social & Guardian & BBC into Abramovich's tax dodging by leasing his own superyachts back to himself. This was a monumental amount of work and it deserves your time: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

My latest story for @tbij.bsky.social Senator Warren slammed the Fed Reserve for allowing some of the biggest banks in the US to break rules designed to prevent another financial crisis and avoid huge taxpayer bailouts 👇 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... With @icij.org

We're seven days into the year and I find it hard to imagine that this will be topped as one of the most mental statements of 2025: www.ft.com/content/8c35...

Spotlight do stellar work all the time but this is particularly impressive. “Open justice” is a principle our courts rarely live up to — particularly on disclosure of documents, even when they’re referred to in open court — and these tussles make reporters’ jobs possible. Hats off.

NEW: Rifaat Al-Assad, "the butcher of Hama" & uncle of Bashar, used a Guernsey wealth advisor to help manage his billion-dollar empire amassed through massive looting of Syrian public funds, per court docs www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

🚨 BREAKING: @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

NEW: Rifaat Al-Assad, "the butcher of Hama" & uncle of Bashar, used a Guernsey wealth advisor to help manage his billion-dollar empire amassed through massive looting of Syrian public funds, per court docs www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

By me and Laura Pitel: a German company has taken a $15mn settlement with OFAC after being caught shipping a WHOLE PETROCHEMICAL PLANT from Australia to Iran. on.ft.com/4eVKBtX

🆕 Transparency International UK analysis published by @financialtimes.com has found almost 500 U.K. properties worth £6bn bought using suspicious funds channelled through the British Overseas Territories. £5.5 billion of this is held by companies in the BVI. ⤵️ www.ft.com/content/7fcd...

👓 WHAT WE'RE READING – 5 key stories from the anti-corruption world 1️⃣ @tbij.bsky.social: Great roundup from the TBIJ team of last week's House of Commons debate on SLAPPs, featuring a clip of @joepowell.bsky.social's powerful speech.

Another banger from @hettieobrien.bsky.social: “The government knew it couldn’t have a political argument about winding back environmental law, because the public likes environmental law. So instead, they set out to kill environmental law by stealth.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Slapps used to silence whistleblowers should be outlawed, says group of MPs

Finally able to share the project I've worked on this past year with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It started as a wild idea I pitched during my interview for my current job, and ended today with a debate on SLAPPs in the House of Commons: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

NEW: “Mohamed Al-Fayed’s sexual abuse could have been stopped were it not for legal threats against journalists who investigated allegations against him, an MP has told the Commons today.” Dispatch on today’s SLAPPs debate coordinated by TBIJ: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

For a year, we’ve gathered stories of people — often ordinary people with few resources — silenced by legal claims. Their stories matter, but the public were denied any knowledge of them. Today, some of those stories were brought to light by MPs across the House. Proud to have been a part of this: