Former Thai Deputy Finance Minister Vorapak Tanyawong has filed a criminal defamation suit against Whale Hunting, but we will defend our reporting in court while continuing to publish the documents that expose the Mauerberger syndicate's capture of Thailand's elite.
The real number is $7.65 billion. Now the fugitive—hiding in Shanghai on a forged passport—is trying to buy a Trump pardon. We've uncovered the legal and lobbying infrastructure behind the play.
This week: Kinahan’s cocaine empire crumbles, Trump’s pardon economy, Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine, and Patrick Radden Keefe on London Falling.
As law enforcement closes in on Benjamin Mauerberger’s scam network, the luxury Aman hotel brand faces a boardroom civil war as elite shareholders demand to know how a global fugitive laundered "pig-butchering" proceeds into their $3B portfolio.
This week: a Moscow front tied to Iran and the Houthis, Libya's financial operator, and a sharp guide to oligarch-autocrat alliances. Plus the glass-eel trade, The Copenhagen Test, Raven, and our latest Mauerberger investigation.
Most financial crimes involve stealing a nation's wealth and hiding it abroad. The Mauerberger "Spider Web" is the reverse: it is an inward occupation, using billions in criminal proceeds to buy the licensed brokerages, energy reserves, and media networks that form the state's own internal organs.
This week: the private intelligence industry exposed, Tehran under bombardment, a Harvard weed smuggler's Caribbean empire, and Silicon Valley's weapons obsession. Plus glass eel smuggling, a new Serial podcast, and more.
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.
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