@abelf.bsky.social
Investigative reporter / editor across the Asia-Pacific for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (occrp.org). Drugs/Bribes/Spies/Scams
Incredible. Truly a master at work
11.07.2025 00:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it really him? This rules
10.07.2025 12:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it really the same Nick Adams? He hasn't tweeted anything about it from his alpha male account
10.07.2025 09:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This foreign policy re-alignment we've heard so much about
24.06.2025 23:45 β π 598 π 137 π¬ 14 π 8Both 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.
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
16.06.2025 02:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trumpβs 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...
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...
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: 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
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?
30.05.2025 05:35 β π 100 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0
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!
09.04.2025 07:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The best thing is you get to chase it down by sharing an ultra-heavy clove cigarette with a mummified corpse
08.04.2025 11:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The next gen: Aleph Pro
www.occrp.org/en/announcem...
Baby I hear the smoots are hawley...
02.04.2025 22:46 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
26.03.2025 07:06 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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
10.03.2025 04:14 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Scam call centers are destroying lives across the world.
Now weβre 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?
03.03.2025 11:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
The US has never had a pro-corruption administration like this one: stopped enforcing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), fired 17 Inspectors General, pardoned Blagojevicβ¦
Now will stop enforcing most important anti-corruption legislation since FCPA that ended anonymous shell companies. YCMTSU
The 21st century has seen an incredible number of inspiring peopleβs uprisings β Ukraine, Georgia, HK etc β that were greeted with indifference or hostility by westerners who claim to be revolutionaries. Rather than try to learn from them, they chose instead to believe authoritarian govt propaganda.
01.03.2025 12:19 β π 27 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
