Franz Wild

Abramovich’s hidden football deals during Chelsea’s time at the top Offshore deals with key figures were not recorded in Chelsea’s accounts, despite potentially benefiting the club

Anyone following the FA charges against Chelsea, our investigation from 2023 had a lot of juice that I think the FA has spent a good amount of time looking at

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...

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Some news from me..

I’ve been appointed Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

The Bureau brings you some of the most powerful investigations around.

So if you’re into that please follow us. We’ve got a lot ahead of us.

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My two years reporting on Big Tech’s hidden scandal Exhausted, traumatised and underpaid, content moderators are the invisible victims of a labour system in need of overhaul

Thoughtful insights from @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social on why social media content moderators get so badly screwed while Big Tech makes bns

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Tech Life - What you don’t see - BBC Sounds One man describes his job as a moderator in Ghana. And we say goodbye to Skype.

Excellent to see tonnes of pickup on our revelations about the secret base of Meta content moderators in Ghana.

The BBC has now interviewed one of our key sources for the story. Give it a listen.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-05...

I never used to give traveling to the U.S. as a journalist a second thought. Not anymore

HSBC set to face pressure on climate commitments at shareholder meeting The UK’s largest bank will be challenged to restate its commitment to net zero at its annual general meeting in London on Friday.

Great to see our reporting on HSBC apparently running roughshod over its climate commitments coming up in the Independent and the Standard on the day of its AGM

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HSBC breaks climate pledge with billion-dollar Glencore deal Investors rage at allegations bank broke its climate pledge to raise funds for mining giant

HSBC, for all its talk of being committed to net-zero, seems to have broken another of its own pledges to bring carbon emissions down.

TBIJ can reveal that HSBC helped raise $1bn for Glencore, even though the mining company has been ramping up coal production.

Hate speech and climate denial: inside the Facebook network run by… Groups boast more than 60,000 members and have been used as a recruiting ground for Reform despite bearing no official links to the party

England elections remind of a network of Facebook groups run by Reform candidates and activists last yr

Unsurprising: misinformation, conspiracy theories, hate. Particularly interesting though was that they were using these groups to recruit candidates

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

Our investigation into Abramovich's unpaid taxes has prompted MPs to call for government/HMRC to look into this

File on 4 Investigates - Abramovich, the Yachts and the Tax Dodge - BBC Sounds Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich dodged millions of pounds in VAT on his superyachts.

The File on 4 on Abramovich's offshore tax schemes is a great listen. Well done @andyverity.bsky.social

Featuring star investigator @simonlock.bsky.social of course

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Great thread on how in 2021 - when Prigozhin was given a special licence by the British government (whose sanctions he was under) to sue @eliothiggins.bsky.social - there was *a lot* of evidence that he led the murderous mercenary Wagner Group

Roman Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax Leaked documents suggest oligarch's billions were managed from UK, undermining offshore tax avoidance plan

Abramovich may owe as much as £1bn in UK taxes, because while the profits from his enormous hedge fund investments all flowed offshore, they were managed out of the UK

Our investigation shows how the offshore financial system enables huge tax avoidance

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

The image shows a picture of Roman Abramovich and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone. There is a cartoon crown on top of Abramovich's head. The wording reads: 'Bigger than Bernie: Roman's £1bn Tax Dodge'

🚨Roman Abramovich could be due the biggest tax fine in British history

He may owe as much as £1bn to UK tax authorities – an amount even higher than the record tax settlement paid by former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone 🔗 bit.ly/4hBjXIA

Roman Abramovich evaded millions in VAT with fake yacht hire scheme Billionaire’s agents designed elaborate scheme to fool authorities – then wrote it all out in emails

NEW: our latest investigation on how Abramovich evaded millions of euros on his fleet of superyachts.

His associates arranged for commercial exemptions on huge VAT bills by falsely claiming the boats were hired out to customers.

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

(S+) Roman Abramowitsch: Wie der Oligarch mit seiner Megajacht womöglich Steuern hinterzog Mit einem aufwendigen Offshore-Konstrukt soll Roman Abramowitsch den Besitz und Betrieb seiner Luxusjachten verschleiert haben. Der russische Milliardär wollte so offenbar Steuern in Millionenhöhe spa...

Ein russischer Milliardär und die grosse Frage, ob er mit seinen Yachten Steuern hinterzogen hat — in Deutschland …
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Revealed: how Roman Abramovich dodged taxes on cost of running his fleet of superyachts Cyprus Confidential files suggest offshore scheme was used to evade tens of millions in VAT on long list of expenses

Always amazing to collaborate with @byrobdavies.bsky.social and @juliettegarside.bsky.social at the Guardian.

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Abramovich dodged millions in tax with superyachts-for-hire scheme Shell companies were used to charter the sanctioned oligarch’s yachts to himself, evading VAT, BBC reveals.

Great work from our partners at the BBC on the Abramovich tax investigation

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Roman Abramovich evaded millions in VAT with fake yacht hire scheme Billionaire’s agents designed elaborate scheme to fool authorities – then wrote it all out in emails

NEW: Roman Abramovich has one of the longest yachts in the world, complete with 24 guest cabins, swimming pools, helipads, and a disco hall

Turns out, the former Chelsea FC owner managed to evade millions in tax due in connection with the use of his yachts 👇

Roman Abramovich evaded millions in VAT with fake yacht hire scheme Billionaire’s agents designed elaborate scheme to fool authorities – then wrote it all out in emails

NEW -- Roman Abramovich dodged millions in taxes via a sham yachts for hire scheme that his associates set up.

“We want to avoid paying VAT," one of his directors said plainly.

Excellent work by @simonlock.bsky.social and @eleanorrose87.bsky.social

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Elizabeth Warren criticises Federal Reserve over JPMorgan misreporting Wall Street banks are misreporting their trading activity – risking a new financial crash and inflating executive pay

Massive story. JPMorgan is violating capital rules designed to prevent another financial crisis, @josephinemoulds.bsky.social reports.

@warren.senate.gov says “the Fed may be turning a blind eye as JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks cook their books"

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thanks everyone who joined us for our briefing this morning on investigative journalism.

It was a fascinating discussion!

Thank you @ellenhalliday.bsky.social of @prospectmagazine.co.uk, @peterjukes.bsky.social of @bylinetimes.bsky.social and
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How MPs revealed the stories being silenced by legal threats Using parliamentary privilege to reveal what the powerful didn't want us to know

The inside story of a pretty cool investigative project revealing the dastardly legal threats many in society are exposed to

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Good analysis from @robsoutar.bsky.social about what Trump means for climate

A really bizarre case where judges can't be named. I have no idea how this serves accountability and transparency in the justice system.

We've pierced the 1.5C mark. Well done everyone.

Governments are rowing back on climate commitments, COP summits are hosted by self-interested petrostates and hijacked by oil and gas companies, banks are pumping billions into new fossil fuel projects, green investments being cut. Who's surprised?

‘Nobody cares’: the women living with untreatable UTIs Sweeping antibiotic use in the US means a once innocuous condition now leaves some suffering for years

Women battling recurrent UTIs told us they’ve tried everything to treat themselves, from surgery to self-administering meds via catheters

For Tamara, it became so unbearable she started taking antibiotics every time she had sex – a common trigger

‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash… Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad

NEW: A Guernsey advisor help Assad's uncle manage a property empire worth hundreds of millions in Europe.

A window into how the UK enables kleptocrats who've butchered their own people and hidden stolen millions offshore

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Amazing how willing people are to trash their own legacy in their last days of office. Not to mention completely pulling the rug out from under their entire party.