Tag: crime

• The Coin Laundry, a global cryptocurrency investigation

  November 27, 2025

  The Coin Laundry exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Coin Laundry is a groundbreaking cross-border… more ›

• ‘It was like a city at war’: Covering the November 13 Paris attacks

  November 13, 2025

  On November 13, 2015, three commandos associated with the Islamic State group perpetrated a series of coordinated attacks in the Paris region. The terrorists killed 132 people and injured more than 350 in… more ›

• Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

  November 7, 2025

  Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a… more ›

• Backward

  September 23, 2025

  Pride and prejudice. Certainty borne out of extreme cruelty, both felt and inflicted. A century of warlords and volunteers. more ›

• They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.

  September 22, 2025

  A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands to scam strangers online… more ›

• Inside the CIA’s secret fight against Mexico’s drug cartels

  September 10, 2025

  Working with special Mexican army and navy units, the CIA for years has been running covert operations to hunt down Mexico’s most-wanted narcos, a Reuters investigation finds. Among the captures:… more ›

• Blackwater’s Erik Prince Muscles Back Into the Mercenary Business

  August 18, 2025

  Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/erik-prince-mercenaries-vectus-global-5a166dca more ›

• German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software

  August 6, 2025

  Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables “predictive policing.” https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&at_medium=Newsletter&at_campaign=EN more ›

• Abramovich’s hidden football deals during Chelsea’s time at the top

  July 12, 2025

  Offshore deals with key figures were not recorded in Chelsea’s accounts, despite potentially benefiting the club https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-11-15/roman-abramovichs-hidden-football-deals-during-chelseas-time-at-the-top?utm_source=tbij-uncovered.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-sportswashing-showdown-of-the-summer&_bhlid=63eeb1a265fa7e73571798bdd3f1967ef889ee7b more ›

• Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna

  July 7, 2025

  The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast. No drugs were found, but officials and regional security sources suspect… more ›