The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is a non-profit media organization dedicated to holding those in power accountable. We focus on significant issues through thorough reporting that reveals the truth. Our aim is to share important stories. We engage in comprehensive investigative journalism to educate the public, free from any corporate or political influence. With our fact-based and impartial reporting, we highlight systemic issues, combat misinformation, and inspire change. Our team of journalists is committed to digging deep, often spending months to uncover the truth. Once our investigations are finished, we distribute them to mainstream media outlets worldwide, ensuring they reach a wide audience.

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‘It is not possible’: Cyprus powerless to claim Abramovich’s €14m tax…

2 days ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Eleanor Rose

Cyprus tax authorities faced stark questions last week for the failure to collect €14m in unpaid VAT due on Roman Abramovich’s fleet of luxury superyachts. Sotiris Markides, the tax commissioner, told the Cyprus parliament that procedural loopholes had made it impossible to collect the money owed as the result of the elaborate tax-dodging scheme revealed in January by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).
Serious Fraud Office launches investigation into Thurrock fraud claims

3 days ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Gareth Davies

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation into Rockfire Investment Finance and its £650m solar farm deals with Thurrock council. The SFO has requested information from a number of financial institutions as part of its probe into multimillion-pound fraud allegedly committed against the local authority in Essex.
Teacher and judge who ran abusive household cannot be named, rules…

2 weeks ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Hannah Summers

Content warning: This story contains references to child abuse and racism. A primary school teacher smashed their adopted children’s heads together, forced them to swallow soap and called one of them a “black bastard”. Meanwhile, their partner, a barrister who also sat as a deputy district judge in the family courts, repeatedly failed to protect the children from the campaign of abuse.
HMRC takes action against tax avoidance specialist Paul…

2 weeks ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Eleanor Rose

HMRC says it has has taken landmark action against a notorious promotor of offshore tax avoidance schemes who it says has cost the exchequer £1bn in lost revenue. The tax agency said it issued stop notices to Paul Baxendale-Walker covering two offshore arrangements, the first time it said such action has been taken against an individual rather than a company. He could face criminal prosecution if he does not comply.
Liam Kavanagh faked evidence to cover £5m fraud, Thurrock council…

3 weeks ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Gareth Davies

A businessman has been accused of giving forged evidence to the high court to cover his tracks after pocketing £5m of taxpayers’ money in a deal with a local council. Liam Kavanagh allegedly created a “sham” invoice showing a transaction between two of his companies when he had in fact paid the money to himself, according to Thurrock council. The Essex authority says this was to corroborate a lie told in court by Kavanagh and that his deception cost Thurrock up to £37m.
My two years reporting on Big Tech’s hidden scandal

4 weeks ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Niamh McIntyre

Isis members using a severed head as a football, someone wearing a flayed face like a mask, a person being covered in petrol and set alight. These are just a handful of the videos I’ve heard content moderators describe in my role as Big Tech reporter at TBIJ. The images conjured up by the interviews have been difficult for me to forget – let alone for the workers who had to see them first-hand. Content moderators are the invisible cogs in the vast machinery of Big Tech.
UK chicken megafarms face a residents’ uprising

1 month ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Tracy Keeling |Andrew Wasley

The signs dotted around the idyllic village of Thelnetham in Suffolk are decidedly uninviting. One reads: “Serious fowl play, stay away!” In the village hall, around a dozen residents gather to explain: they are standing against a planning proposal that would replace a local pig farm with broiler chicken breeding units. They fear the change will bring traffic, bad smells and pollution.
Opinion: Travelling to the US never used to worry me. It does now

1 month ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Franz Wild

I’ve been preparing a few of our journalists for trips to the US recently. The advice I’ve had to give them has left me shaking my head. Instead of reminding them to pack their passport, I’m telling them they need to leave their usual phone and laptop. Trump’s administration has made journalists a target. The Committee to Protect Journalists has warned that any of us entering the US could be questioned about our plans and motives, have our devices seized and searched, maybe even turned away.
HSBC breaks climate pledge with billion-dollar Glencore deal

1 month ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Josephine Moulds

HSBC appears to have broken its own green pledge by helping raise $1bn for the mining giant Glencore, stoking anger from customers and investors. Following pressure from climate-conscious investors, HSBC promised in December 2021 to stop funding companies that were increasing coal production “as soon as possible”.
Farms near polluted Wye and Severn rivers given millions in…

1 month ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Andrew Wasley

The UK government funnelled millions of pounds in taxpayers’ money to intensive poultry farmers near the Wye and Severn rivers despite the industry’s links to spiralling water and air pollution in the region, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) can reveal. At least £14m of public funds was paid out over a three-year period to farm operators in the counties surrounding the rivers: Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Monmouthshire, Worcestershire and Powys.