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Tom Burgis

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Tom Burgis

@tomburgis

@guardian investigations. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland, The Looting Machine. Signal tomburgis.43. Send us info in confidence.

London and roaming

Joined October 2011

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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Apr 25
A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne
‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankroll...
From theguardian.com
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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Mar 2, 2022
I’m very happy to say that, contrary to the wishes of certain oligarchs, Kleptopia, my book on how dirty money is conquering the world, will remain available in all good bookshops. Kleptocracy is the greatest threat we face. At the very least, we should be able to read about it.
Dominic Casciani
@BBCDomC
Mar 2, 2022
Well this is interesting: @tomburgis - author of Kleptopia - how dirty money is conquering the world - has just won the defamation action brought against him by one of the companies that features in his rather gripping investigation:
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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Feb 28, 2022
A London company owned by oligarchs from the former Soviet Union is suing me and my publisher @HarperCollinsUK over Kleptopia, my book about how dirty money is conquering the world. The first hearing was recently delayed but will now be at the High Court this Weds, March 2
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Feb 28, 2022
Replying to @tomburgis
Hugely grateful for all this support for Kleptopia. Also on behalf of my courageous sources, who helped me report on the fight of our times. The kleptocrats of the world are uniting. In Ukraine they use tanks. In Zimbabwe they use torture. In the west, their weapon is money.
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Mar 14, 2022
It is more vital than ever to stop oligarchs using law firms to silence the press. So I’m delighted to say that the latest attempt to do that against me and the @FinancialTimes just failed 1/ on.ft.com/3IaNUNq
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Feb 24, 2022
Here’s an irony of war. The UK’s position as the global hub for dirty money puts its government in a uniquely strong position to hurt Putin’s kleptocracy - and kleptocrats everywhere - by attacking financial secrecy. (1/4) #Ukraine on.ft.com/2PzCHkA
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Aug 30, 2022
To my delight I’m joining the @guardian’s legendary investigations team. Formidable reporters helmed by @PaulLewis. I start in spring after writing a book about the truth and who gets to tell it. DMs are open, contact details on my website: tell us what needs to come out.
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Sep 28, 2020
The @nytimes story on #TrumpTaxReturns says of Russia: "the tax records revealed no previously unknown financial connection — and, for the most part, lack the specificity required to do so". That's no surprise because. Here's why. (1/11)
The New York Times
@nytimes
Sep 28, 2020
The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades. It shows his finances under stress, beset by losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. nyti.ms/337tPGI
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Mar 4, 2022
The UK is calling time on particular oligarchs from one kleptocracy (Putin’s). What it is not doing is calling time on London’s role as the global hub for dirty money. So the “enablers” - lawyers, bankers, PRs, spies, lobbyists, lords - can just find new kleptocrats to serve.
max seddon
@maxseddon
Mar 3, 2022
Replying to @maxseddon
Sanctions like this were the sort of thing Alexei Navalny spent years crying out for. “Greedy lawyers have been living off [Russian money] for decades. MPs can’t do anything because Britain is run in such a way that it loves dirty money.” ft.com/content/e03743…
Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Oct 1, 2020
*** NEW INVESTIGATION: SILENT WITNESSES *** ft.com/content/7dc13e… This white Audi pulled out of a Johannesburg car park one evening in 2016. Inside was André Bekker, a convivial geologist. Minutes later he would be dead. (1/11)
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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Nov 7, 2023
Life in Kherson is like a slow-motion war crime. Every day, the Russians across the river fire hundreds of shells, bombs and rockets. Every day, civilians are killed and hurt. I was there last week, and this is what they said @guardian
Life on the frontline in Kherson: dodging shells, facing death and refusing to leave
From theguardian.com
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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Feb 29, 2024
***OUT TODAY*** After three extraordinary years following a thread that led from Conservative HQ to Putin's St Petersburg via Kathmandu and a royal Scottish retreat, my new book CUCKOOLAND is out. It's the tale of a world where the rich own the truth. Our world. 👇🧵
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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Jul 15, 2025
I met the late @MBuhari a few times. My favourite line of his came after @David_Cameron called Nigeria "fantastically corrupt". Which is true, as Buhari accepted. But with a kicker for western states: Can you give the loot back now please? ft.com/content/3532d2… @toluogunlesi
Nigerian president hits back after Cameron gaffe
From ft.com
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Tom Burgis
@tomburgis
Oct 21, 2020
*SCOOP* Nawaz Sharif, the former leader of Pakistan, is living on Park Lane despite being sentenced to jail back home for corruption. Now his successor has written to Priti Patel saying she is “duty bound” to deport him. @FT ft.com/content/bef956… via @FinancialTimes
ft.com
Pakistan demands UK send ex-PM Nawaz Sharif home to be jailed
Former leader has been in London for nearly a year after temporary release from prison on medical grounds