🚨NEW: For 2 years, I have been working on a massive, global financial investigation w/my @BuzzFeedNews colleagues based on secret US govt docs we shared w/@ICIJ, internal bank records & intvs w/100s of sources.
Here's Day 1 #FinCENFiles
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NEW: Massive new investigation into Deutsche Bank's mirror trades led by my colleague @TomBWarren based, in part on never before released internal US govt documents we obtained.
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NEW from the #FinCENfiles: Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of @BuzzFeedNews’ unprecedented trove and how we did it
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NEW from the #FinCENfiles investigation: Alexander Perepilichnyy, the Dead Man With Links To Two Of The World’s Largest Money Laundering Scandals
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NEW: Here Is How Banks Have Responded To Our #FinCENFiles Investigation
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It's been an honor going into the trenches of the #FinCENfiles w @a_cormier_ @TomBWarren @jtemplon @Richard_AHolmes @scottpham @jsvine @LoopEmma @MikeSallah7 @TanyaKozyreva & editors extraordinaire @arielkaminer @GeorgeWPapajohn
We're not done yet
And a special solo tweet for the final member of the #FinCENfiles team: my extraordinary UK colleague @alexcampbell
And finally, before she became our science editor, @azeen was one of the first members of our #FinCENfiles and her work on this project has been vital.
She's also the host of our new podcast on this project: Suspicious Activity. Here's Episode 1
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NEW from our #FinCEN files investigation: Follow the money. This stunning interactive map shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and other financial institutions — making their way through the global financial system. buzzfeednews.com/article/icij/f…
BuzzFeed shared these suspicious activity reports, or SARs, with the @ICIJorg and more than 400 journalists from 110 news organizations in 88 countries. #FinCENFiles
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