Podcast
Investigations
Hosted by Daraj · EN
A selection of investigations covering financial, environmental, and corruption stories.
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Investigating Riad Salame’s wealth in Europe: Companies, Real Estate and “5 Dimensions of Fun”
Jul 1100:35:09Tap to summarizeOffshore companies owned by the governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon have quietly invested in overseas assets worth nearly US$100 million in recent years, even as he has encouraged others to invest in his economically devastated country.
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NSO Helped Over Ten Countries Tap Over 50,000 Phones
Jul 1100:10:50Tap to summarizeCreated by an Israeli firm, approved by the Israeli Knesset and sold under supervision of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Pegasus software helped suppress freedom of expression and allowed for sexual blackmail of journalists and activists alike. How does that sound for “the only democracy in the Middle East?”
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Morocco: Attempts to Spy on 10,000 Phones…
Jul 1100:10:24Tap to summarizeMorocco has spent the most money utilizing the Israeli NSO spyware. More than ten thousand numbers were tapped, including many journalists and activists’s phones who are now in prison.
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UAE: Israel’s (Pegasus) Spyware in the Service of Autocracy
Jul 1100:22:46Tap to summarizeSome 10,000 phone numbers were targeted by the UAE with the help of the Israeli firm NSO Journalists, activists and dissidents feature on the astonishing long list of Abu Dhabi targets. Follow our special investigation into the Pegasus leaks
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That’s Why We Do It
Jul 1100:07:32Tap to summarizeWill there be a day, when we feel less compelled to look over our shoulder – or at our phones – with fear and suspicion? Is it really possible we will feel safe at home again?
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Espionage is Part of Egyptian-Saudi Relations
Jul 1100:14:30Tap to summarizeDespite the strong alliance between the two countries, especially after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi assumed the presidency in 2014, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia follows a policy of mistrust of allies and enemies alike.
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Pegasus leaks: UAE Spies on Yemen’s Ministers!
Jul 1100:16:25Tap to summarizeThe UAE is imposing itself as a strong competitor to the Kingdom, and if the UAE has indeed taken the decision to eavesdrop on the Hadi government’s ministers by itself and without the knowledge of the Kingdom, this indicates a great division between the two countries…
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Pegasus: Providing Saudi and Emirati Eyes in Iraq
Jul 1100:10:37Tap to summarizeSaudi and Emirati intelligence agencies used Israel’s Pegasus spyware to massively monitor Iraqi ministers, MPs, ambassadors, journalists, activists and even clerics.
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Pegasus Leaks: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry is Under Saudi Monitoring!
Jul 1100:13:56Tap to summarizeRegardless of the reasons that prompted Saudi Arabia to target and wiretap the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, there is no legal or moral justification for what the Kingdom has done to its allies.
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The UAE’s Runaway Princesses Targeted by Pegasus
Jul 100:14:44Tap to summarizeLeaked Pegasus data show how the phones of Latifa, Haya and people close to them were targeted following their daring escapes from Dubai. While Haya resides in Britain where she fights for custody over her children, very little known is about Latifa after she was forcibly brought back to Dubai
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