Franz Wild

@wildfranz.bsky.social

Editor - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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...

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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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

John Heathershaw@jheathershaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social reports the SRA ruling that a UK law firm "broke no rules" in SLAPPing @bellingcat.com Elliot Higgins for Evgeny Prigozhin in 2021, saying there was only "public speculation" that he led Wagner. Let's post some pre-2021 "speculation".... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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...

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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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...

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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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 👇

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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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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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

‘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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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...

‘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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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 2y ago

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