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Congratulations to the 75+ reporters from 14 countries who worked on #ChinaCables!
The investigation into China's surveillance and mass internment of Uighurs and other minorities won @SPJDC's Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award last night!
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The investigation into China's surveillance and mass internment of Uighurs and other minorities won @SPJDC's Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award last night!
bit.ly/3dUUQQE
Judges said the investigation, which was based on leaked classified government documents, was an “an impressive use of records, source trust-building and shoe-leather reporting on a delicate and dangerous situation, with global implications.”
spjdc.org/2020/06/dateli…
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Two of our other investigations - #MauritiusLeaks and #BriberyDivision – were also honored as finalists in the awards.
Congrats to all the reporters from across the world who helped tell these important stories! 🥳 We couldn't do it without you!
#Collaborativejournalism
Congrats to all the reporters from across the world who helped tell these important stories! 🥳 We couldn't do it without you!
#Collaborativejournalism
🚨Today we added 18 new members to our ICIJ family! 😀
Our network now spans 100 countries, with reporters from The Gambia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and more added today.
Here is a quick intro to these investigative reporters! (Thread) bit.ly/2vv0EyN
Our network now spans 100 countries, with reporters from The Gambia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and more added today.
Here is a quick intro to these investigative reporters! (Thread) bit.ly/2vv0EyN
🇲🇦 First up: Ali Amar, @MarocAmar, from @LeDesk in Morocco joins our family. He’s worked with us on #ImplantFiles, #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers.
Here's his work on the #PanamaPapers: ledesk.ma/2016/04/03/pan…
Welcome to the team!!
Here's his work on the #PanamaPapers: ledesk.ma/2016/04/03/pan…
Welcome to the team!!
@MarocAmar @LeDesk 🇨🇱 @aarellanoj joins us from #Chile – where he’s been working for @ciper as a reporter/editor, now contributor, for six years.
He also worked on #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers with us!
He also worked on #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers with us!
Thread: Amazing resource for tracking corporate #taxhaven strategies&costs. What stands out: absence of data for Africa, ME, etc. We have to talk more abt costs of #taxavoidance for low-income countries, beginning w history of shifting profits from the late colonial world 1/n
The overall amount of profits shifted/cost incurred will be bigger for countries such as US and Europe. But the recent #mauritiusleaks showed that #African countries are hurt by multinational strategies of using tax havens to route investments and book profits 2/n
In a forthcoming article in Past and Present, I show how white European settlers, businessmen, officials etc liquidated their assets during decolonization, fearful of newly independent governments and their attitude towards foreigners and their money. The choice was often 3/n
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1/ #mauritiusLeaks is @ICIJorg’s latest offshore project. It started with a story we wrote in 2017 as part of the #paradisepapers investigation and continued when an anonymous source sent us a USB key in the mail that contained 200,000 files (thank you, whistleblower!)
1/ #mauritiusLeaks is @ICIJorg’s latest offshore project. It started with a story we wrote in 2017 as part of the #paradisepapers investigation and continued when an anonymous source sent us a USB key in the mail that contained 200,000 files (thank you, whistleblower!)
2/ This was hard, dry stuff. No juicy emails to or from presidents or prime ministers trying to hide money. Instead, it was about a bunch of profitable companies trying to pay less money to rich and poor countries around the world.
3/ To understand the documents, I spoke to more than 70 tax and policy experts and to more than 20 tax officials from countries including Thailand, India, Egypt, Zambia and Nigeria.🇱🇸
In collaboration with the @ICIJorg, and despite injunction threat from UK lawyers Campbell Johnston Clark, we've published this:
‘A moral crime’: Leaked contract reveals how shipowners wash their hands of toxic vessels via offshore world.
financeuncovered.org/investigations…
#MauritiusLeaks
‘A moral crime’: Leaked contract reveals how shipowners wash their hands of toxic vessels via offshore world.
financeuncovered.org/investigations…
#MauritiusLeaks
@ICIJorg The story explains how Spanish oil giant Cepsa made a $3.14m deal with an anonymously owned offshore company to sell a tanker for scrap. The tanker highly likely contained dangerous toxins and ended up on a substandard beach scrap yard in Pakistan
@ICIJorg Campaign group @NGOShipbreaking says the leaked contract is a typical example of how large multinationals pass on their toxic assets without taking responsibility for where they end up. The anonymous offshore world is a key facilitator for the spread of poisons. #MauritiusLeaks
Going through the #MauritiusLeaks released last night by @ICIJorg, because Kenyans and people investing in KE have been using Mauritius as a tax haven for a long time...So here are a few names in the leaks.
1. @umaticapital, where ICT CS @joemucheru is an investor and shareholder
1. @umaticapital, where ICT CS @joemucheru is an investor and shareholder
Lamu Oil and Gas Ltd, owned by Qatar National Bank and Edgo Energy. The Qataris opened their embassy in KE in April 2012; on June 1st 2012 Lamu Oil and Gas Ltd was opened in Mauritius, and won the block concessions a month later. #MauritiusLeaks
There are four companies in the #MauritiusLeaks associated with the Lamu oil concessions, two of which are now defunct but the other two are still active. All of them were opened on a single day.
