Emanuele Midolo

Investigations correspondent @thetimes Insight Team. Author: MURDER IN CAIRO. Do you have a story? [email protected]

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

It's the honour of my life and my career to be joining the Sunday Times Insight team, alongside the dynamic duo, @Gabriel_Pogrund, its new unstoppable editor, and the brilliant @venetiamenzies, as an investigations correspondent.

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during Black September, the PLO doorknocked the home of CIA station chief Jim Fees

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCL: The disgraced sexual predator Charlie Elphicke — ex-Tory MP who unsuccessfully sued the Sunday Times before, during and after his time in prison — has declared himself bankrupt.

We are among his creditors: he owes us a six-figure sum for pursuing his libel claim. The action needlessly protracted the suffering of “Jane”, who accused him of raping her. He was represented by Carter Ruck, the law firm of choice for oligarchs and known for representing ultra wealthy claimants against journalists.

After we found him on the streets of west London last week, he acknowledged he’d made “mistakes”. However, he refused to comment when asked if he accepted he was guilty of the offences for which he was convicted and thrown in prison.

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The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship is a unique opportunity for an exceptional early-career journalist to spend 9 months mentored in a @Reuters investigations unit, with access to @durham_uni research resources. Apply by 10 July: https://t.co/tsed9XwAtB

[Venetia Menzies @venetiamenzies]

Read the full investigation into Shamji's life since Zac's death at @thetimes or pick up a copy of today's Sunday Times 🗞️

@Gabriel_Pogrund @ManuMidolo @JohnMooneyIRL

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[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

INVESTIGATION: Zac Brettler fell to his death in 2019. The only man with answers is living it up. We reveal where he’s been and what he has been up to since then 🔍

PS: if you have a story, get in touch with the new Insight team. Details below 👇🏻

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[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Zac Brettler fell to his death. The only man with answers is living it up

We used OSINT and interviews with sources who haven’t spoken before to trace the movements of Akbar Shamji

W/@ManuMidolo @venetiamenzies @JohnMooneyIRL

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When Zac Brettler died in mysterious circumstances, Akbar Shamji rushed to the scene, lied about it and left Britain. Today we explain where he’s been.

Shamji and Karnuts responded to our allegations, claiming that they are all false.

Tap the link in the thread to read the full investigation by @Gabriel_Pogrund, @venetiamenzies, @manumidolo and @JohnMooneyIRL

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Bill Yuen and Peter Wai tracked Hong Kong dissidents in a ‘shadow policing’ operation masterminded by Chinese agents — but MI5 was on their trail.

Read the untold story of the Chinese spyring operating at the heart of the Civil Service

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[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

‘The incredible double life of a spyware salesman turned spy.’ Unbelievably cracking yarn (as always) from a @jeffmaysh in splendid form. Looking forward to the Netflix TV series

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[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

🚨 I am looking for a deputy editor to join me at Insight, the Sunday Times investigation team. You will be joining me, @ManuMidolo and @venetiamenzies on a great adventure as we try and tell stories that matter, in the most stylish and innovative way possible.

There are lots of words, but this is the most important part of the job description.

"You will be at home speaking to people from all walks of life - and have a natural curiosity, competitiveness and intensity that drives you towards the biggest and most important stories of the day. You will be hard-working and determined to make your years here the best of your career, thereby contributing to the success of Insight and the Sunday Times."

If you think this might be you, please apply.
https://t.co/2TSfB2qpUq

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

@ShippersUnbound Thank you so so much Tim

[Venetia Menzies @venetiamenzies]

I am honoured to be joining The Sunday Times Insight team, led by its new editor, the inimitable @Gabriel_Pogrund alongside the gifted @ManuMidolo as an investigations correspondent

Founded in 1961, the Insight team pioneered investigative journalism and spoke truth to power

I cannot wait to continue this legacy and thank everyone involved in making this possible 🗞️

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

I spent years researching Insight’s history and read most of its explosive scoops under the ST legendary editor Harry Evans in the 1960s and 1970s but I genuinely believe that the best is yet to come and I can't wait to get started.

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

It's the honour of my life and my career to be joining the Sunday Times Insight team, alongside the dynamic duo, @Gabriel_Pogrund, its new unstoppable editor, and the brilliant @venetiamenzies, as an investigations correspondent.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Personal news: I am exceptionally honoured to be appointed editor of Insight, the Sunday Times investigations team.

As part of the Sunday Times' commitment to investigative journalism, and storytelling in the written word, audio and video, I am also pleased to welcome two of the most talented and inspiring people I have worked with to a newly-expanded team. They are @ManuMidolo, currently investigations reporter, and @venetiamenzies, visual investigations editor. I will be hiring a deputy editor in due course.

Our hope is keep the flame of Insight alive by producing fearless and forensic journalism - while delivering our stories in the most elegant and innovative way possible. The Sunday Times is the best place in the world for any journalist - but also any source. We have the resources, and integrity, to back the people who come to us 100%: if you have a complex, surprising, sensitive - but significant, story to tell, we are open for business.

Insight, founded in 1961, pioneered investigative journalism in Britain, championing the voiceless — including, most famously, the victims of thalidomide — and revealing truths which the powerful hoped to suppress. It dismantled the government's narrative about Bloody Sunday, revealed the defection of Kim Philby, and exposed the nuclear plant at Dimona. More recently it has lifted the lid on FIFA corruption and the government's handling of the pandemic.

I have been blessed to have had the paper's backing in combining investigative reporting on the summit of society — monarchy, MI5 and MI6, Downing St — with less glamorous stories ranging from the victims of funeral poverty in London to the abandonment of spouses in Pakistan. It has been the best experience any reporter could have hoped for - and I will draw on it as I try, to the best of my abilities, to maintain Insight's special traditions.

I would also like to thank Ben Tayor, Krissi Murrison, Lindsay McIntosh, Becky Barrow and perhaps above all Pia Sarma for supporting me over the last decade.

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[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

Exclusive: The Sackler family, the disgraced dynasty behind the addicting drug Oxycontin that fuelled the US opioid epidemic, sold a £22m mansion in London hours after a historic multi-billion settlement, an investigation by the Sunday Times can reveal

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[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Immense reporting by @SJAMcBride on MI5 and MI6’s campaign to suppress Sunday Times journalism on Stakeknife.

And how, thanks to the courage and meticulousness of the newspaper, the deep state largely failed.

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

EXCLUSIVE: a Chinese fugitive bought 85 luxury properties in London, 7 of which in just one day, an investigation by The Sunday Times & @OCCRP has found. This week the man, who used ‘golden passports’, had his assets frozen on suspicion of money laundering https://t.co/aXglfMxGS2

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

Simons told the BBC that Apco's research had
"gone beyond" his commission and that when he got the report he “made sure” the report was confidential. But the report was disseminated widely in Westminster and Fleet Street. Simons also sent it to GHCQ hoping they would investigate

[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

Josh Simons, the Cabinet Office minister who resigned last month after the Labour Together scandal, tells the BBC he had been “naive” and is “so sorry” but adds he never wanted journalists to be investigated. We found otherwise.

Full story in @thetimes

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[Emanuele Midolo @ManuMidolo]

The contract also described how Apco would “provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up for use in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together”