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Covers:  Organized crime, corruption, kleptocracy, disinformation, political influence, Pacific Islands, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia
Running around the Asia-Pacific for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). www.occrp.org/en/securedrop-at-occrp

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Aubrey Belford is an investigative journalist and Pacific editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) based in Sydney, Australia.

Aubrey worked for OCCRP in Eastern Europe from 2016-2021 before moving to Sydney. He previously worked as a special correspondent for Reuters based in Jakarta and Bangkok and before that covered Asia for outlets including the International New York Times and Agence France-Presse.

Aubrey specialises in in-depth investigations and internatio…

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With Kleptocrats Untouchable, America Goes Big on Another Strategy: Taking Their Stuff Instead

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By Aubrey Belford Verified
| Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Verified
In the space of a day last July, he fired his deputy prime minister and attorney general and sidelined members of a parliamentary committee looking into the apparent theft. That is, until the United States stepped in. On July 20, the US Department of Justice announced it was launching a case to recover more than US$ 1 billion in assets out of a total of about $3.5 billion allegedly stolen from the sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
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A Lawsuit Promises Justice for Rio Tinto’s Mining Disaster in Bougainville. Some Say It’s Nothing But a Cash Grab.

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By Aubrey Belford Verified
| Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Verified
High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut deep into the earth. Formerly one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines, the open pit now serves as an unsightly monument to the environmental and social chaos that underground riches can create. Run for years by a subsidiary of Anglo-Australian giant Rio Tinto, the Panguna mine earned millions for Papua New Guinea (PNG) and helped bankroll its newfound independence.
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Convicted Fraudsters Stranded Abroad After Marshall Islands Revokes Their Passports

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By Aubrey Belford Verified
| Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Verified
A pair of China-born scammers convicted of bribing officials via a fake United Nations agency have had their Marshall Islands passports revoked while outside the country, potentially leaving them stranded in permanent limbo abroad. Cary Yan and Gina Zhou spent over a week stuck in the transit area of Manila’s international airport earlier this month after authorities in Palau — and then in the Philippines — refused them entry.
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