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Running around the Asia-Pacific for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). https://t.co/3aAKTz9h4C
Apr 7 5 tweets 4 min read
New huge investigation from me & partners @OCCRP and @GuardianAus.

This picture, which has never been seen before, shows Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff, the son of Trump's "peace envoy" meeting in Singapore last October with Jacky Sui (in glasses), one of the main people behind AB, a new blockchain network.

AB and the Trump+Witkoff family's World Liberty Financial partnered last year to integrate WLFI's stablecoin, USD1, on AB's blockchain.

The agreement came just months after AB announced another unrelated "flagship project": a crypto-themed resort in Southeast Asia.

It turns out that that the resort, in the tiny, impoverished country of Timor-Leste, involved people sanctioned by the U.S. for alleged ties to the world's biggest cyber fraud and human trafficking syndicate, the Prince Group.Image We spent MONTHS digging into this, unraveling a trail of people and documents that went from Ireland to the Cayman Islands, Singapore to Hong Kong. It features Frank Lin, a karaoke-loving but secretive businessman who traveled the world by private jet with one of China's biggest movie stars, Fan Bingbing, and who built warm ties with Timor-Leste's Nobel Peace Prize winning president.

Also showing up in this story Boris Tadic, the former president of Serbia, and Ireland's former taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

Also worth saying up front: AB denies any connection to the Prince Group. Lawyers for World Liberty said: "Claims attempting to link World Liberty Financial with sanctioned individuals are unfounded and untrue."

"[World Liberty] has no relationship or association with any of these sanctioned individuals or the Timor-Leste project.”Image
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Sep 8, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
There is an absolutely insane cat-and-mouse game going on right now in Fiji btw the country's govt and a powerful Korean doomsday cult and its fugitive de facto head, Daniel Kim.

This is partly due to @OCCRP @newstapa reporting

It's nuts. Read on.

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Image ~10yrs ago, 100s of members of the Grace Road Church lead by Kim's mum, Reverend Shin Ok-joo, starting moving to Fiji in anticipation of a nuclear cataclysm. It also might be because they tied up a mentally ill man in NY & accidentally amputated his leg & had to leave the US
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Mar 7, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
@Lowkey0nline Ok, I muted this conversation so I missed this. Noticed it blowing up again so I need to come back and set the record straight. You're misusing our reporting for clearly propagandistic purposes. It's pretty shameless, but not atypical for pro-war spin merchants @Lowkey0nline You are insinuating that Zelensky and Azov are somehow tied together because they both received support from Kolomoisky. Kolomoisky is a dangerous guy (because he's a massive alleged thief who embezzled over $4.5B from his own bank) -- but he's not a Nazi