Tom Stocks

Investigative Journalist @OCCRP

[Tom Stocks @TREStocks]

"You will never find my real passport. You’re f*cking dumb. I can scam anyone I want"

How a scammer with a fake name addressed her victim after he realised she'd stolen thousands from him

But @OCCRP found that scammer's real name

#ScamEmpire 👇

https://t.co/FwS7PKlBQK

[Tom Stocks @TREStocks]

Investment scams are destroying lives around the world

#ScamEmpire, a new investigation led by @OCCRP and @svt, reveals how scammers make millions by tricking people into handing over their life savings

https://t.co/TOMi8yZ9Tm

[Tom Stocks @TREStocks]

Scam call centers are destroying lives across the world.

Now we’re putting the spotlight on them.

Coming soon… #ScamEmpire

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

Scam call centers are destroying lives across the world.

Now we’re putting the spotlight on them.

Coming soon… #ScamEmpire

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

NEW: A Cypriot company ultimately owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich set up a fake superyacht rental business in an apparent attempt to dodge millions of euros in tax, leaked emails show.

Here’s what we found with @TBIJ and @BBCNews 👇

https://t.co/lsAYdKGLp8

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

🏆OCCRP’s 2024 Corrupt Person of the Year is … Bashar al-Assad.

The ousted Syrian president turned Syria into a narco-state, financing his authoritarian regime through an array of organized crime, including the production and trafficking of Captagon, an addictive street drug.

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

Who owns London’s luxury real estate? Sometimes there's no way to know.

The family of Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev held properties in the British capital worth millions of dollars. Do they still own them?

We can't tell. They’re hidden behind a secretive offshore trust.🧵👇

[Miranda Patrucic @MirandaOCCRP]

Last week @Mediapart published a defamatory, biased, and factually incorrect story about @OCCRP and our sources of funding. They did so despite numerous exchanges in which we provided them with the facts. Their misguided interpretation has since been spread by other media.

[Tom Stocks @TREStocks]

Frequently Asked Questions on @OCCRP’s Funding and Editorial Policies:

https://t.co/KMqYFPb2w5

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

We’ve gotten over 55,500 nominations for Corrupt Person of the Year 2024.

OCCRP uses this award to spotlight individuals who have done the most to advance organized crime and corruption around the world.

Tell us your selection today: https://t.co/GATpaJDVjB

[IStories Media @istories_eng]

⚡️ Law enforcement conducted a search and seizure at the home of @istories_eng editor-in-chief Alesya Marokhovskaya’s parents. A criminal case was opened against her under the “foreign agency” article 🔽

https://t.co/zaDHHq4N2q

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

Spyware attacks. Intimidation. Forced exile.

Journalists in our network face daily threats from bad actors who will stop at nothing to keep the truth behind closed doors.

Don’t let them kill the story.

Support OCCRP's work to keep reporters safe: https://t.co/stg5DtSAe6

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

#CaspianCabals reveals hundreds of millions in payments were made to a firm co-owned by Timur Kulibayev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s ruler.

Through Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kulibayev had ready access to the levers of oil power. https://t.co/ZqZkC17cQT

[Tom Stocks @TREStocks]

#FreeEvan

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

A court in Yekaterinburg has convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a high security penal colony. The trial has been dismissed as a ‘sham’ by US officials & the WSJ.

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

🇲🇹NEW: A U.S. healthcare firm at the center of Malta’s biggest-ever corruption scandal used spies to target its critics. The fees were billed to the company’s Malta subsidiary, which was largely funded with Maltese taxpayer money.

https://t.co/K6YH7KV1tG

[Forbidden Stories @FbdnStories]

🔴 How are Israeli drones killing journalists in Gaza?

For the #GazaProject, 50 journalists from 13 international newsrooms coordinated by @FbdnStories investigated the targeting of those who were covering the war. ⬇️

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

🔴 SCOOP: Tories took £50,000 from a firm with links to Baroness Mone’s husband

Cash came from a micro company which had just £49k in assets and was controlled by a business associate of Doug Barrowman’s at time of donation

Donation was made in Oct 2020 - juyst months after PPE Medpro, the company backed by Mone and Barrowman, received £203m in contracts

@AnnelieseDodds says Rishi Sunak had questions to answer over the donation

New on @OCCRP by me and @jimfitznews - and in @thetimes with @GeorgeGreenwood

https://t.co/Gl6hcLbMbg

[RUSI @RUSI_org]

🎙Why are anonymous shell companies and trusts the preferred tools of professional enablers to help their sanctioned clients? Join @keatingetom, Justyna Gudzowska and @TREStocks (@OCCRP) in the latest #STRPodcast episode to learn more: https://t.co/C5RbOoPssc

[Tom Stocks @TREStocks]

There's a huge corruption scandal unfolding in Malta that has led to criminal charges against former PM Joseph Muscat

Muscat was paid consultancy fees by a Swiss firm that received $millions from private hospitals company Steward Health Care, @OCCRP can reveal

👇

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

🇲🇹 NEW: Leaked emails obtained by @OCCRP and @TheTimesofMalta reveal new details about the hospital corruption scandal rocking Malta.

https://t.co/D4BBRjWcAD

#corruption #malta #health

[Sally Mairs @ssmairs]

Solidarity with @OCCRP's exiled Russian partner @istories_media, whose journalists have now been been "arrested in absentia" for their fearless investigative reporting https://t.co/5DM3WeRLvE

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

The bombs used in the Israeli strike that killed dozens of Palestinians in a camp for displaced people near Rafah were made in the United States, a @nytimes analysis shows.

w/ @robinnyc7 @heytherehaley @whitney_hurst. Link: https://t.co/VEfMTYHoj6