See also Richards' "Looting with Putin" special report which provides a brilliant overview of the Big Four's shameless dealings in the 90s/00s. www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
It sits above my desk - an excellent read.
Congratulations to the team @tbij.bsky.social Accountability matters.
Done in partnership with BBC Panorama, @byrobdavies.bsky.social of the Guardian, and OCCRP.
All this was part of the Cyprus Confidential project, co-led by ICIJ and Paper-Trail Media, based on documents first shared by Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Also, sham consultancy agreements were used to extract about $98m for Abramovich, who personally signed the documents.
Read more here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Around $600m of luxury assets, including a French château and a superyacht, vanished from one company’s accounts via retroactive transfers, avoiding disclosure. An identically named British Virgin Islands company was swapped in for a Cypriot holding company, moving over $10bn of assets on paper.
My latest on Roman Abramovich, and how his hidden web of offshore companies dodged tax and concealed assets - all with the help of the Big Four's Deloitte: Findings include: Backdated trust agreements to make $2bn of interest-earning cash appear to belong to another (BVI) company, escaping tax.
It's what he would have wanted *sniff*
This is some of the "self-reporting" that Chelsea did - taking a request for comment from The Guardian and TBIJ and forwarding it on to the FA....
"A plague o' both your fucking houses"
Also define self-reported. They "self-reported" a bunch of stuff we (Guardian, TBIJ & others) put to them prior to publication after months of investigation... How convenient.
This is going to be like the "World Series" of baseball isn't it.
So in other words, law firms are essentially now in charge of marking their own homework - and no one else can check it. Forget toothless, the SRA has essentially had its entire lower jaw removed.
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform
Will you be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data caves?
