Biggest class action claim ever heard in a UK court starts tomorrow. 620,000 people’s lives & businesses were devastated nine years ago when the Fundao mining-waste dam collapsed in Brazil's worst environmental disaster
Thread: 1/8 For 9 years, victims have been thwarted and slow-walked in Brazil, under an out-of-court compensation scheme set up by BHP, Vale & local BHP-Vale JV, Samarco. Acknowledging these frustrations, British judges have allowed them to bring a $44bn claim in the UK 2/8

🇹🇩🖤🇹🇩 Chad's Hereditary Kleptocracy

A special report dedicated to the people who lost their lives in the protests that took place throughout Chad on October 20 2022. 1/4

financeuncovered.org/stories/chads-… The genesis of this report dates back to a workshop organised by the @OcaCoalition coalition and @GlobalIntegrity in April 2023. The representative from Chad at the meeting was Delphine Djiraibe who runs the Public Interest Law Center. 2/4

🧵1/4 The sovereign debt crisis looms large over Africa. It’s an issue forcing governments into excruciating decisions. In countries like Kenya, governments are being forced to choose between meeting debt obligations or providing basic services: businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/deb… 2/4 The crisis has implications for millions of Africans as debt repayments consume limited public resources. In Zambia, spending on electricity vouchers to schools has been cut. It means children in areas such as Chipata must take their own water to class financeuncovered.org/stories/zambia…

Big 👏 to @sbowers00, @maliapolitzer and @naipanoilepapa who made the @onewm long list for our #BabyBrokers investigation into the low-cost surrogacy industry – a story that spans Mexico, Georgia, Estonia and Cambodia. 1/4 This investigation was a team effort. So 👏👏 to

@bakradze_n at @ifactGeorgia
@Martinlaineolen & @holger_r at @EestiPaevaleht in🇪🇪
@tanlmont & @Dalila_Sarabia in 🇲🇽
@shanti_das at @ObserverUK
@vicheika11 in 🇰🇭

+ 🙏 to @PulitzerCenter for backing reporters on this story.
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🔥NEW!🔥
Our @MaliaPolitzer teamed up with @ICIJorg & @NamrataSharmaP in Nepal to reveal 1,109 artefacts now belonging to NYC’s world famous Met Museum were once owned by people who’d been either indicted or convicted of antiquities crimes. 1/4

financeuncovered.org/stories/new-yo… 2/4 We teamed up with @RTIExpress in India, @NepaliTimes, @espressonline in Italy and @Guardian in the US to show how looted antiquities are more than just numbers: many treasures have a cultural history stolen from their home communities.

📢📢NEW INVESTIGATION
The #BabyBroker Project🚼🍼🐣💰
Journalists trace a cut-price surrogacy tourism agency across 4 continents, unpicking how it circumvents anti-exploitation laws to match desperate would-be parents with surrogates (often poor, vulnerable, single mums)🧵1/11 The agency, called New Life, says it arranges 80-100 embryo transfers a month to surrogate women around the world. Among its busiest branches are Mexico and Georgia — it also previously operated in Ukraine, Kenya, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal and elsewhere. 2/11

📢NEW INVESTIGATION📢

1/5 We’ve tracked down the masterminds and minions throughout Europe that make up five of the busiest Russia-facing corporate secrecy agencies.

Here's our top piece

financeuncovered.org/stories/englis… 2/5 Soon we will be publishing profiles of some of the most important company formation agents.

They operate within the law.

But some of their shady clients are behind many of the biggest money laundering scandals.

⚡️NEW ⚡️
1/ A consortium of highly respected anti-corruption groups have called on #Nigeria to break its “thunderous silence” over a secret deal that could have seen huge sums of ‘stolen’ oil money flow to a private US company. financeuncovered.org/investigations… 2/ A confidential contract linked to President Buhari’s multi-billion dollar asset recovery programme was leaked online last month, exposing terms of a deal that have since prompted concern among Nigerian and Western NGOs.

We have been inundated with requests for updates about the seizure in Canada on May 30 of a luxury private jet bought by former oil minister Dan Etete with some of the alleged proceeds of the notorious $1.3 billion OPL245 oil deal. A THREAD: In case you missed it, here's the original story which we co-published with our partners @PremiumTimesng: financeuncovered.org/investigations…

In collaboration with the @ICIJorg, and despite injunction threat from UK lawyers Campbell Johnston Clark, we've published this:
‘A moral crime’: Leaked contract reveals how shipowners wash their hands of toxic vessels via offshore world.
financeuncovered.org/investigations…
#MauritiusLeaks @ICIJorg The story explains how Spanish oil giant Cepsa made a $3.14m deal with an anonymously owned offshore company to sell a tanker for scrap. The tanker highly likely contained dangerous toxins and ended up on a substandard beach scrap yard in Pakistan