Aubrey Belford

"Harry" referenced here is v. likely Prabowo's billionaire brother, Hary Tanoesoedibjo.

Easiest way to think of it: Hary handles the business side for the family, Prabowo handles politics

If Prabowo is talking about Hary meeting Eric and Don Jr., then this is a conversation about doing business

In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

Incredible. Truly a master at work

Is it really him? This rules

Is it really the same Nick Adams? He hasn't tweeted anything about it from his alpha male account

This foreign policy re-alignment we've heard so much about

Both in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in now the Israel/US war on Iran, military aggressors aren't even bothering to try to build consensus or justify what they're doing before they do it. Just pure force.

Looking back, it's pretty clear that the 2003 invasion of Iraq broke everything.

U.S. Imprisoned Head of Bogus UN Agency Using the Name of His Twin The mix-up in the federal case against Cary Yan is the latest development in a bizarre global grifting odyssey first exposed in a 2023 OCCRP investigation.

NEW + WEIRD one from us @occrp.org

The U.S. government charged and imprisoned a Chinese scam artist who who tried to create a Pacific city-state next to a U.S. ballistic missile range... but mixed his name up with his twin (who was already in prison in China)

www.occrp.org/en/news/us-i...

Ryan wants to fall for this so badly

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes.
www.propublica.org/article/buke...

YouTube video by Важные истории Как Telegram связан с ФСБ? Что это значит лично для вас? Расследование

Telegram claims to be a secure "free speech" app

But reporting reveals its links to Russia's intelligence agencies

(Telegram's founder also visited Russia 50+ times while claiming to be in exile)

Translatable captions here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pn...

Russian exile reporters just revealed how the Telegram app is connected to Putin's FSB intelligence service

Makes a hell of a lot of sense

Russian-language link here: istories.media/stories/2025...

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) How did alleged rapist Andrew Tate get Vanuatu's 'golden' passport? | The World | ABC NEWS

Check out @danmcgarry.bsky.social on the ABC about our @occrp.org story revealing Andrew Tate's "golden" Vanuatu passport

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Le...

Remember late last year when @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc thought they had uncovered a *scandal* in the fact that investigative journalism outlets openly received U.S. grants? What a quaint idea

Now, we can see the full effect of the brutal Trump aid cuts their reporting helped make happen

EXCLUSIVE: Alleged Rapist Influencer Andrew Tate Got Vanuatu Passport Around Time of 2022 Arrest The alleged sex trafficker and “king of toxic masculinity" was granted a golden passport by the South Pacific nation while under high-profile investigation in Romania. Tate now faces charges in the Un...

Exclusive: Andrew Tate was was granted a 'golden passport' by Vanuatu while under high-profile investigation in Romania

www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

by myself, @danmcgarry.bsky.social, the @occrp.org team in the Pacific + Ana Poenariu, with Matt Bernadini of Intelligence Online

EXCLUSIVE: Alleged Rapist Influencer Andrew Tate Got Vanuatu Passport Around Time of 2022 Arrest The alleged sex trafficker and “king of toxic masculinity" was granted a golden passport by the South Pacific nation while under high-profile investigation in Romania. Tate now faces charges in the Un...

SCOOP from @occrp.org and friends: Andrew Tate got himself a passport from Vanuatu just after his 2022 arrest in Romania on charges including rape and human trafficking

www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

Glenn Greenwald, the Brazil-based journalist?

Son of CIA Deputy Director Joined Russian Army and Was Killed in the War in Ukraine

This is nuts. Son of a CIA deputy director was killed in Ukraine last year fighting for *Russia*, reports independent Russian outlet Important Stories.

istories.media/en/news/2025...

Good! Wish I was in Toraja too!

The best thing is you get to chase it down by sharing an ultra-heavy clove cigarette with a mummified corpse

OCCRP Announces a New Chapter for Its Investigative Data Platform — Aleph Pro We've been rebuilding Aleph from the ground up, and will launch Aleph Pro in October 2025, combining a modern technical foundation with user-centered design and major performance gains.

The next gen: Aleph Pro

www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

Baby I hear the smoots are hawley...

I once walked into a bar bathroom in New Orleans and an absolutely wasted Robert Downey Jr. stuck his head out of a stall like a meerkat with this exact expression. His bodyguard ushered me out a split second later but it is seared into my brain.

Convicted Fraudsters Stranded Abroad After Marshall Islands Revokes Their Passports Two China-born scammers, convicted of bribing officials through a fake U.N. agency, had their Marshall Islands passports revoked while abroad, leaving them stranded without valid travel documents and ...

Update on crazy @occrp.org story about a pair of China-born "miracle water" scammers who infiltrated the U.N. and tried to create a crypto city on a radioactive atoll next to a U.S. army facility.

They just got their passports revoked, leaving them in limbo abroad:

www.occrp.org/en/news/conv...

Men who unbuckle and drop their pants at the urinal are basically The Joker to me. I'll smile and agree no matter what they say. I'll give them a wide berth.

These are people with nothing to lose. They are unspeakably dangerous.

I believe the correct plural is Waltons Goggin

Scam call centers are destroying lives across the world.

Now we’re putting the spotlight on them.

Coming soon… #ScamEmpire

Why have I seen more great investigations from Wired in the last month than NYT and WaPo combined?

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid (Gift Article) The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...