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Bold stories, unforgettable characters. Podcasts, serials and investigations from @ProjectBrazen, including THE TELL and WHALE HUNTING.

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Joined November 2020
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Two House committee chairmen have asked Rubio and Bessent to decide within 180 days whether to sanction the network around Benjamin Mauerberger and his Cambodian partner Yim Leak. Tom Wright on the scam money moving through Southeast Asian elites: whalehunting.projectbrazen.c…
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A Chinese scam boss murdered in Sri Lanka in July carried a Cambodian passport in one name and a Surinamese passport in another. OCCRP and The Sunday Times found his real name in Cambodia's naturalisation records: occrp.org/en/news/chinese-sc…
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Seven tankers carrying about 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are crossing the Atlantic to the US, Greenpeace Ukraine says. Three are sanctioned. Russian fuel is also moving east. Shipments to one Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025.
Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025. A tanker faked its location while loading there. Since a Coral Energy network company bought the terminal in 2024, it has changed hands four times. By @claraprevedur: whalehunting.projectbrazen.c…
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We love stories about people leading double lives, usually, inevitably, unsuccessfully. They’re irresistible. This one by Bradley Hope for The Foundry, about a Supreme Court litigator who secretly amassed a $100 million fortune playing poker before losing everything, goes to 11. @brazenFM thfndry.com/the-tell/
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Since a company in the Coral network bought PT Oil Terminal Karimun in 2024, its shares have changed hands four times as sanctions closed in. The latest filings point back to a familiar figure from inside Coral. Clara Preve reports: whalehunting.projectbrazen.c…
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Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025. A tanker faked its location while loading there. Since a Coral Energy network company bought the terminal in 2024, it has changed hands four times. By @claraprevedur: whalehunting.projectbrazen.c…
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We are not facing a conventional dictatorship, but an unconventional criminal regime, and the ways to defeat it must also be precisely unconventional and combined. This is not only about Venezuela or the US. It’s about the hemisphere and its future. @claraprevedur @brazenFM.
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It's 2025. Billions vanished. A global manhunt. Still no Jho Low. This Friday: A new chapter begins. #WhereIsJho Livestream from @WhaleHunting_ & @whereisjho with big reveals and special guests. Add to your calendar: evt.to/eoausadhw
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Tomorrow, we begin a new investigation. It starts with a question: Could Havana Syndrome be explained by science? Follow @whalehunting_ to join the hunt. #HavanaSyndrome #Science #NewInvestigation
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NEW: We just mapped Bangladesh’s ex-PM Sheikh Hasina’s hidden empire—>$2 B in the dark. 350+ UK properties, offshore pipelines, frozen accounts. Kleptocracy isn’t a headline; it’s a business model. 🧵
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Lonely superfans. UV light as a cure. The lost empire of Vine. This week’s Brazen Weekender hits hard—with picks from the weird to the wired: 🎥 A private-island concert gone tender 📖 A cold case reopens 🎧 Vine’s rise & fall in 8 wild episodes 🔗 whalehunting.projectbrazen.c…
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This week's Variety cover story: Is Mubi Really Worth $1 Billion? Inside Efe Cakarel’s Plan to Make the Global Streamer Cooler Than A24 wp.me/pc8uak-1lFN4j
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A rare Mark Lombardi work coming on sale soon. The back story of one of the most fascinating artists you’ve never heard about — an intellectual predecessor of Julian Assange and the follow-the-money investigations of the past decades mutualart.com/Artwork/Meyerl…
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Jho Low is hiding but he can be found #whereisjho #malaysia #jholow #1mdb #fraud #scandal
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🚨 Verified Tip 🚨 New photograph of an original application for Jho Low's wife, a.k.a. Jesselyn Chuan or Chuan Teik Ying, to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. Team verified it is genuine and never previously pubb'ed. Medium Tip: ~$5,300 in $JHOLOW
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"@brazenfm is more native to crypto than most projects," says co-founder @bradleyhope , as he discusses how he is bridging the gap between journalism and the crypto space.
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The Best Reporting nominees for #TheAmbies are in! 📢 Which podcast is leading the charge in impactful reporting? Find out live from Chicago at @PodcastMovement on March 31 at 6 PM CST #podcast #awards @business, @podcasts, @campsidemedia, @WonderyMedia, @brazenFM, @InTheDarkTNY
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