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Investigative reporter at TBIJ covering dirty money, the City of London, and transnational corruption. Stories for: Guardian, 1843, Sunday Times, Observer, BBC Panorama, C4 Dispatches, Times, etc. Longform nerd. Read my work: https://edsiddons.me/
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🚨Major US trader StoneX bought millions of dollars worth of gold from a company linked to illegal mining, deforestation and pollution in the Amazon

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Whip-smart explainer from @simonlock.bsky.social & @tbij.bsky.social on (one part of) Roman Abramovich's tax dodge – leasing his own yachts back to himself. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

Five whistleblowers alleged in interviews with ICIJ that Western oil companies’ dealings in Russia or Kazakhstan included improper payments in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law that prohibits bribes to foreign officials. https://buff.ly/40FJ2eJ

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Tech press like WIRED are picking up the slack where our legacy political press have abdicated their responsibility. Now would be a good time to become a subscriber for $5 for one year: www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi... Follow their writers: go.bsky.app/Acr6kiY

submitted 28 days ago • 43 comments

More than 40 MPs and peers have written to HMRC to say that Roman Abramovich's tax affairs must be investigated in the light of an investigation by the Guardian, @tbij.bsky.social and BBC, which found that the former Chelsea FC owner's companies may owe the UK taxman £1bn. [1/3]

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Abramovich's multi-billion dollar hedge fund operation may have unlawfully dodged hundreds of millions in tax. Extraordinary investigation from @simonlock.bsky.social and @eleanorrose87.bsky.social + BBC, Guardian, OCCRP, Paper Trail, & others. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

According the SRA, it's actually very normal and fine to sue an investigative journalist on behalf of a sanctioned warlord because the warlord took umbrage with tweets that tied him the mercenary group he founded. Scoop by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Superb investigation by @simonlock.bsky.social & @eleanorrose87.bsky.social & Guardian & BBC into Abramovich's tax dodging by leasing his own superyachts back to himself. This was a monumental amount of work and it deserves your time: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

My latest story for @tbij.bsky.social Senator Warren slammed the Fed Reserve for allowing some of the biggest banks in the US to break rules designed to prevent another financial crisis and avoid huge taxpayer bailouts 👇 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... With @icij.org

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

We're seven days into the year and I find it hard to imagine that this will be topped as one of the most mental statements of 2025: www.ft.com/content/8c35...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Spotlight do stellar work all the time but this is particularly impressive. “Open justice” is a principle our courts rarely live up to — particularly on disclosure of documents, even when they’re referred to in open court — and these tussles make reporters’ jobs possible. Hats off.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Rifaat Al-Assad, "the butcher of Hama" & uncle of Bashar, used a Guernsey wealth advisor to help manage his billion-dollar empire amassed through massive looting of Syrian public funds, per court docs www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 BREAKING: @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Rifaat Al-Assad, "the butcher of Hama" & uncle of Bashar, used a Guernsey wealth advisor to help manage his billion-dollar empire amassed through massive looting of Syrian public funds, per court docs www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

By me and Laura Pitel: a German company has taken a $15mn settlement with OFAC after being caught shipping a WHOLE PETROCHEMICAL PLANT from Australia to Iran. on.ft.com/4eVKBtX

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

🆕 Transparency International UK analysis published by @financialtimes.com has found almost 500 U.K. properties worth £6bn bought using suspicious funds channelled through the British Overseas Territories. £5.5 billion of this is held by companies in the BVI. ⤵️ www.ft.com/content/7fcd...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

👓 WHAT WE'RE READING – 5 key stories from the anti-corruption world 1️⃣ @tbij.bsky.social: Great roundup from the TBIJ team of last week's House of Commons debate on SLAPPs, featuring a clip of @joepowell.bsky.social's powerful speech.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Another banger from @hettieobrien.bsky.social: “The government knew it couldn’t have a political argument about winding back environmental law, because the public likes environmental law. So instead, they set out to kill environmental law by stealth.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Slapps used to silence whistleblowers should be outlawed, says group of MPs

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Finally able to share the project I've worked on this past year with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It started as a wild idea I pitched during my interview for my current job, and ended today with a debate on SLAPPs in the House of Commons: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: “Mohamed Al-Fayed’s sexual abuse could have been stopped were it not for legal threats against journalists who investigated allegations against him, an MP has told the Commons today.” Dispatch on today’s SLAPPs debate coordinated by TBIJ: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

For a year, we’ve gathered stories of people — often ordinary people with few resources — silenced by legal claims. Their stories matter, but the public were denied any knowledge of them. Today, some of those stories were brought to light by MPs across the House. Proud to have been a part of this:

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments