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training by Finance Uncovered “just turned my life and career around”
"support from Finance Uncovered helped us produce some of our best work"
The New York District Attorney requested a briefing from our reporters on how they pieced together the $500m profits made by a web of international companies owned by the Sackler family linked to the Oxycontin opioid scandal between 2020 and 2022.
Alpha Consulting, a Russian–owned supplier of anonymous shell companies and offshore nominees, was stripped of its operating licence by regulators in the Seychelles after collaborative reporting by Finance Uncovered, the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) and the BBC prompted police and regulators to raid the firm’s offices.
Our investigation linked the company formation agency industry in the UK to some of the most notorious corruption scandals of recent times, prompting the UK government to close a loophole allowing English limited partnerships to provide a veil of secrecy for criminals and kleptocrats.
Our reporting with the Daily Nation on East Africa’s biggest sports betting company prompted the Kenyan government to deport the company’s owners; to reverse its decision to suspend betting tax; and also increased resources going to a Kenyan gambling addiction charity.
Our series of money trail reports into Isabel dos Santos (part of the Luanda Leaks ICIJ-coordinated investigations into Africa’s richest woman’s business affairs) resulted in Cape Verde committing to close banks that serve only foreign customers.
Our long-running series of investigations with the ICIJ prompted unprecedented and ongoing law enforcement scrutiny of items in the Met’s collection and the museum has been compelled to return sculptures to Cambodia, Thailand and India that were obtained and exported illegally by dealers.
We supported journalists to investigate Nepal Airlines Corporation’s $209.6 million purchase of two Airbus A330 aircraft. They uncovered a $2.5 million bribery scheme that reached the highest levels of decision-making, with their reporting prompting dozens to be charged for alleged corruption and embezzlement.
Following our high profile investigation with Justice for Myanmar and The Guardian, the United States imposed sanctions on Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (Moge). This was the first time it had directly targeted the entity that is Myanmar’s ruling junta’s main source of foreign revenue.
"The best workplace I’ve had so far and the best two years of my career"
Delivering in-country financial investigative training as media freedom restrictions lifted
"Gives you the tools to try to crack those riddles we struggle with constantly"
Forging strategic partnership with El Clip to convert training into Spanish
"FU has had a real and lasting impact on my work"
Collaborating on specialist investigations to expose illicit finance through the UK
"Enabled me to investigate how hundreds of Nepalese workers lost their savings as a result of corruption"
Helping covert researchers expose junta's business interests