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He’d never been to the club. Still, the system flagged him. We traced it to Patron Scan—a network scanning IDs, capturing faces, and sharing data across venues. Get flagged once, and you can be denied entry in venues across the world, without ever knowing why.
Leaked photographs from a private Instagram account reveal that the son of Thailand’s former Deputy Finance Minister was flying on the Mauerberger network’s Gulfstream and vacationing on their $100 million superyacht—while his father claimed they were just school friends.
He sold his superyachts to shell companies, fired the world's most prestigious yacht manager, and disappeared into the Indian Ocean. This is how Benjamin Mauerberger executed the great yacht swap.
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A tip led us to a mysterious Dubai fund. What we found was a network connecting a money launderer, an insolvent UK company, a £100,000 political donation, the Dubai ruling family, and the UAE Finance Minister.
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