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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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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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
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Hannah Summers @hansummers.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📢 Mentoring: At @tbij.bsky.social we are launching a mentorship programme open to both staff and freelance journalists interested in gaining experience and guidance on reporting on the family courts. Full details here 👉 tinyurl.com/42xdkk5b
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-07...
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TBIJ appoints Franz Wild as CEO and Editor-in-Chief
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Thoughtful insights from @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social on why social media content moderators get so badly screwed while Big Tech makes bns www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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/...
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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.
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-05...
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Opinion: Travelling to the US never used to worry me. It does now
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I never used to give traveling to the U.S. as a journalist a second thought. Not anymore
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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 www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
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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.
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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.
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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...
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Our investigation into Abramovich's unpaid taxes has prompted MPs to call for government/HMRC to look into this
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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...
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Roman Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax
Leaked documents suggest oligarch's billions were managed from UK, undermining offshore tax avoidance plan
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨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
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'
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Simon Lock @simonlock.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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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
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Bastian Obermayer @bastianobermayer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ein russischer Milliardär und die grosse Frage, ob er mit seinen Yachten Steuern hinterzogen hat — in Deutschland … www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/r...
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(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...
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Always amazing to collaborate with @byrobdavies.bsky.social and @juliettegarside.bsky.social at the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Great work from our partners at the BBC on the Abramovich tax investigation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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 👇
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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...
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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
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International Broadcasting Trust @ibtrust.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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 @wildfranz.bsky.social of @tbij.bsky.social
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The inside story of a pretty cool investigative project revealing the dastardly legal threats many in society are exposed to www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Good analysis from @robsoutar.bsky.social about what Trump means for climate
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A really bizarre case where judges can't be named. I have no idea how this serves accountability and transparency in the justice system.
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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?
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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
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‘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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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‘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
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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.
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“I can’t believe it. I want to speak to the world now.” A moving reaction to us bringing suppressed stories to light mailchi.mp/tbij.com/uc-...
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“I’m crying” – the stories finally brought to light
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Shameless plug.. who wouldn't want me in their inbox every Saturday morning? All of TBIJ's latest banger investigations and some insights into how we got them or the reaction and impact we had. 👇 🗞️
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Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Nearly £6bn in suspicious funds have flowed through British OTs to buy UK properties since 2016, including £1.1bn in Kensington and Bayswater. The govt's bold plan to turn the tide on dirty money is a vital step for our communities. @transparencyuk.bsky.social buff.ly/4g77rzX 👇
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/11/2024
Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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Meta suspends accounts tracking Trump, Bezos jets, echoing Elon Musk’s X
Instagram and Threads blocked accounts sharing public data on Mark Zuckerberg’s and Donald Trump’s private planes. A similar move on X stirred up a free-speech firestorm.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Are you signed up to our weekly newsletter? Uncovered brings you the inside scoop on TBIJ's biggest investigations every Saturday morning, written by our Editor @wildfranz.bsky.social Sign up here 🔗 mailchi.mp/tbij.com/blu...
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Not that I bought much meat there but sad to see it go
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I had missed @bondhack.bsky.social revealing that Telegram was crypto as much as anything. Worth checking out the original story towards the bottom of the thread.
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New APPG for Fair Elections got lots of members already, but also some big topics to take on: disinfo + dark money in politics The weakness of the Electoral Commission as, LibDem MP Lisa Smart says, is exposed by our investigation into illegal foreign donations www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
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Dark money is undermining trust in politics — MPs are calling on government to act
The principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability are the bedrock of a democratic society. They enable trust between the electorate and those in power — and allow a level playing field in w...
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Really good piece. Lifts a lid on how open to abuse the relatively short transition period is.
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you're going to do one thing you'd expect this to be it
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
And this is more about the project from @tbij.bsky.social to uncover the Silenced Stories www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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TBIJ teams up with MPs to uncover stories silenced by threats
TBIJ spent a year uncovering public-interest stories blocked by legal threats. On Thursday, MPs will use parliamentary privilege to discuss them
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Amazing collection of stories. Here is a more complete writeup www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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Zahawi, Al-Fayed and Ampika Pickston: All the silenced stories
MPs used parliamentary privilege during the SLAPPs debate to reveal stories suppressed by legal threats
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@maxwilkinson.bsky.social said @insidehousing.bsky.social had an investigation in "potentially dangerous" housing stifled by legal threats from a taxpayer-funded landlord
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@rachelgilmourld.bsky.social said "wealth creator" Samuel Leeds had threatened a woman with legal action when she wanted to find out more about how her brother had died of suicide, after having lost thousands on Leeds' wealth creation course
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@joepowell.bsky.social warned that Mohamed Al-Fayed's sexual abuse went unchecked after newspapers were prevented from writing about it
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@sianberry.bsky.social told of housing campaigner Ben Jenkins's battles against the housing association which co-owns his home
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
And Aspana Begum raised a case in which a story being prepared by @tomlatchem.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social into a failing children's care home was kept under wraps
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Apsana Begum told of her own experience being at the receiving end of lawfare
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Julian Lewis revealed new threats from the Post Office to Computer Weekly
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