Peter Andringa

Peter Andringa

@peter.andringa.me

Journalist/technologist, @financialtimes.com Visual Investigations 📍London ✉️ peter.andringa@ft.com 🔏 Signal: @peterandringa.01 ft.com/news-tips

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The spokesperson says the two men are merely friends and not business partners. But counterintelligence experts said even that is a risk: in Russia, no friendship with the US President's son goes unnoticed by the Kremlin. Even if it started innocently, they said, it was likely to be exploited.

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Don Jr and Kremlev spent two days in the remote camp, and the two men reportedly share a love of the outdoors. Kremlev posted a video from the trip, calling the mountains "amazing." The FT spoke to local guides and officials, cross-referencing photos and records to confirm the camp was Don Jr's.

Trump Jr's spokesperson said the two met through a mutual friend in the hunting community. The men were in Mongolia with Kaan Karakaya, a Turkish hunting outfitter who helped plan the trip. At an event last year, Kremlev called him "a bridge between worlds, a friend who brings people together."

This isn't the first time Don Jr has hunted an endangered Altai argali in Mongolia. His first trip in 2019 was reported by ProPublica at the time, and has returned multiple times since. He is pictured here with one, from a 2022 documentary produced by his publishing company Field Ethos:

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Really excited to have won a Loeb award for my story on Neom and the Line. Read the story here: ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

ig.ft.comEnd of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelledMohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
Brooke Masters@brookeamasters.ft.com

So proud of @alisonkilling.bsky.social who won the visual journalism award at the #loebawards. @financialtimes.com @data.ft.com at its best!

Ouch: "A generation ago, Sorkin found fame writing TV political drama The West Wing. His secret then was making viewers feel smart. Now he seems to be addressing the concussed."

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A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...

ft.comKremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banksFT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

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As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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My piece on the Colombian mercenaries in Sudan - and their paymasters in the Emirates - is out as the cover story of the Financial Times magazine today. It's the culmination of months of interviews and data tracking with @justinlynch.bsky.social Here's a gift link: as.ft.com/r/868d9fe4-1...

as.ft.comThe mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten warHundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses

The DRC is the world's richest source of cobalt, critical for batteries. But its land contains another hidden mineral: Uranium. An investigation from FT and Lighthouse Reports finds the cobalt industry often ignores radioactive material in its exports — creating both health and proliferation risks.

as.ft.comDR Congo’s cobalt boom carries an unwanted cargo: uraniumRadioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs

Felix makes good rebuttals to the "why does no one cover this??" tweets. But also: this news broke around 1am Saturday morning in London! It's hard for anyone to do much beyond writing up Anthropic's statement at that hour.

Felix M. Simon@felixsimon.bsky.social

Against my better judgment, I wrote something short on the claim that UK news isn't paying enough attention to the Claude Fable quagmire and AI more broadly.

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NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.

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In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out against him — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. www.ft.com/content/edbe...

ft.comCrispin Odey and the £79mn libel battle that wasn’tA legal fight revealed the disgraced financier’s thinking — and fresh allegations of misconduct

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“This is a vindication for investigative journalism and for the victims whose stories of abuse we reported,” said the FT’s editor, Roula Khalaf. “The FT was always confident in its reporting. This is a case that should have never been brought.”

The information available to journalists and researchers studying Iran gets narrower and narrower, as we explored in our story a few weeks ago: www.ft.com/content/c0d3...

ft.comThe Iranian school bombing and the information warEvidence suggests that the US was most likely to be behind the attack that killed over 100 children
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

It was great to work with Michela and the brilliant Behind the Money team this week to share our reporting on ICE. Find it in your podcast app below:

Michela Tindera@mtindera.ft.com

This week on Behind the Money - the @financialtimes.com's @peter.andringa.me explains the months of reporting he's put into understanding: - who the private-sector businesses are that contract with US immigration agencies - and how much ($$) they are benefitting 🎧: podfollow.com/behind-the-m...

An absolutely shocking story with brilliant reporting from Jim here:

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

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As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

wsj.comICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur CampsHeng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

Since I’ve had a few people ask, I’ll note: our story isn’t behind a paywall! All you have to do is sign up for a (free) FT account, and you can access this — and also 5 other great stories every month.

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Eye scans, licence plate readers, spyware: technology used to catch criminals and terrorists is being repurposed to fulfil Trump's pledge to deport 1mn undocumented migrants this year. Critics fear it’s the thin end of the authoritarian wedge. An #FTEdit thread on America’s new surveillance state 👇

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An investigation by @peter.andringa.me worth reading that also serves as a reminder of a well-known yet always uncomfortable truth: OSINT tools used for accountability (geolocation, facial recognition, data cross-referencing) are embedded in ICE’s deportation machinery.

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This is amongst the best reported stories about the current state of ICE Air. Must read.

Peter Andringa@peter.andringa.me

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

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ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

ig.ft.comThe booming business of Trump’s deportation flightsCompanies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US