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Aubrey Belford

@abelf.bsky.social

Investigative reporter / editor across the Asia-Pacific for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (occrp.org). Drugs/Bribes/Spies/Scams

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Noan Sereiboth@noansereiboth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Journalist Mech Dara, known for his investigations into Cambodia’s online scam industry, was detained by military police in Koh Kong for nearly an hour before released at about 5pm on February 11, after photographing a mass raid in the Dara Sakor area kiripost.com/stories/deta...

Detained Journalist Released After Deleting Photos of Suspected Scam Centre Raid in Dara Sakor

Investigative reporter, Mech Dara, was detained for nearly an hour for reporting on an alleged raid on a scam compound in Dara Sakor. He was later released after being forced to delete his photos, hig...

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project@occrp.org · 7mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: As Trump talked about taking Greenland, two of his former employees gained a foothold in the Arctic island. They hold shares in GreenMet, which signed a deal with a company ready to mine critical minerals in Greenland. www.occrp.org/en/scoop/as-...

As Trump Talked About Taking Greenland, Former Employees Gained a Foothold in the Arctic Island

Two men who worked with the Trump Organization hold shares in GreenMet, which signed a deal with a company ready to mine critical minerals in Greenland.

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Unless I’ve missed something—and pls update if so—major news orgs seem profoundly uninterested in the death toll from the Venezuela raid. Nowhere to be found on MSM home pages. Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed. For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · 7mo ago

it's honestly an insult to Dick Cheney's months of intelligence and media manipulation for Trump to just do this. Nobody wants to work anymore.

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

After years of letting Korean doomsday cult / slave labor org Grace Road thrive & turn into one of the country's biggest business conglomerates, Fiji is now under serious pressure from the U.S. to crack down or lose access to millions $ in aid Latest from @occrp.org: www.occrp.org/en/scoop/us-...

US Threatens to Cut Fiji Aid Over Impunity for Doomsday Cult

OCCRP has confirmed that US aid to Fiji is at risk unless the government takes urgent action against the Grace Road Group, a Korean cult accused of human trafficking and other crimes.

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Badiucao巴丢草@badiucao.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Drawing for the Bondi Beach hero who risked his life to disarm one of antisemitic terrorist shooters in Australia. According to 7NEWS Australia, the hero has been identified as Ahmad Al Ahmed, 43 year old father of 2 and Sydney resident.

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Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I try to have faith in humanity but then I find out that there are people in Australia who will walk right past the Kensington Prides and pay more money for an objectively inferior variety like the Calypso (AKA the Shephard avocado of mangoes)

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What do you get when you combine a Pacific Island Ponzi cult with a whole bunch of Western conspiracy theorists? Here's the story of the strangest online money making scheme you've never heard of, and the "sovereign citizens" who still think it will make them rich www.occrp.org/en/feature/m...

Meet the South Pacific Ponzi King With a Bogus Bank — and a Global Fan Club

Fugitive Ponzi schemer Noah Musingku reigns over an armed “cargo cult” deep in the interior of one of the world’s most isolated islands. OCCRP went to investigate how he had attracted an international...

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project@occrp.org · 8mo ago

NEW: OCCRP’s lead editor for the Pacific @abelf.bsky.social tells how Noah Musingku – once responsible for one of the region’s biggest financial frauds – reinvented himself as a divine monarch on the cusp of leading a self-proclaimed economic revolution www.occrp.org/en/feature/m...

Meet the South Pacific Ponzi King With a Bogus Bank — and a Global Fan Club

Fugitive Ponzi schemer Noah Musingku reigns over an armed “cargo cult” deep in the interior of one of the world’s most isolated islands. OCCRP went to investigate how he had attracted an international...

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Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What do you get when you combine a Pacific Island Ponzi cult with a whole bunch of Western conspiracy theorists? Here's the story of the strangest online money making scheme you've never heard of, and the "sovereign citizens" who still think it will make them rich www.occrp.org/en/feature/m...

Meet the South Pacific Ponzi King With a Bogus Bank — and a Global Fan Club

Fugitive Ponzi schemer Noah Musingku reigns over an armed “cargo cult” deep in the interior of one of the world’s most isolated islands. OCCRP went to investigate how he had attracted an international...

occrp.org

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Harry" referenced here is v. likely Prabowo's billionaire brother, Hary Tanoesoedibjo. Easiest way to think of it: Hary handles the business side for the family, Prabowo handles politics If Prabowo is talking about Hary meeting Eric and Don Jr., then this is a conversation about doing business

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

Frederik Obermaier@frederikobermaier.com · 10mo ago

In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

Signal@signal.org · 10mo ago

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · last yr.

Both in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in now the Israel/US war on Iran, military aggressors aren't even bothering to try to build consensus or justify what they're doing before they do it. Just pure force. Looking back, it's pretty clear that the 2003 invasion of Iraq broke everything.

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW + WEIRD one from us @occrp.org The U.S. government charged and imprisoned a Chinese scam artist who who tried to create a Pacific city-state next to a U.S. ballistic missile range... but mixed his name up with his twin (who was already in prison in China) www.occrp.org/en/news/us-i...

U.S. Imprisoned Head of Bogus UN Agency Using the Name of His Twin

The mix-up in the federal case against Cary Yan is the latest development in a bizarre global grifting odyssey first exposed in a 2023 OCCRP investigation.

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Richard Tofel@dicktofel.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

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Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · last yr.

Russian exile reporters just revealed how the Telegram app is connected to Putin's FSB intelligence service Makes a hell of a lot of sense Russian-language link here: istories.media/stories/2025...

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project@occrp.org · last yr.

NEW: The Telegram messaging app has a reputation for security — but Important Stories found that its technical infrastructure is run by a man whose companies closely collaborate with Russian intelligence services. Meet Vladimir Vedeneev 👇

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember late last year when @mediapart.fr @dropsitenews.com etc thought they had uncovered a *scandal* in the fact that investigative journalism outlets openly received U.S. grants? What a quaint idea Now, we can see the full effect of the brutal Trump aid cuts their reporting helped make happen

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project@occrp.org · last yr.

“Democracy would not be better off if OCCRP and USAID had never existed, and it is not better off because of ‘this investigation.’” Mark Lee Hunter’s article critiques Mediapart's flawed attack on donor-supported investigative journalism. Read more: the-investigative-mind.ghost.io/mediapart-ai...

Aubrey Belford@abelf.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP from @occrp.org and friends: Andrew Tate got himself a passport from Vanuatu just after his 2022 arrest in Romania on charges including rape and human trafficking www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

EXCLUSIVE: Alleged Rapist Influencer Andrew Tate Got Vanuatu Passport Around Time of 2022 Arrest

The alleged sex trafficker and “king of toxic masculinity" was granted a golden passport by the South Pacific nation while under high-profile investigation in Romania. Tate now faces charges in the Un...

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