Jack Adamovic Davies is the investigative reporter who exposed the Prince Group, a Cambodia-based organized crime gang now indicted for serious allegations in the US, and sanctioned in the US and UK. While on staff at Radio Free Asia, Davies took on a lonely and at times terrifying mission to write about the affairs of this organization, which for nearly five years yielded no result, and in his own words often made him feel like “Jack the Quack”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A podcast episode recorded in Kyiv on October 17 on the sidelines of a conference on the human rights abuses in Ukraine and Syria, organised by SUN (The Syria Ukraine Network), an NGO based in the US.Andrii Mikheiev is an international law expert with the International Center for Ukrainian Victory, a Kyiv-based NGO. He tells host Matei Rosca about the struggle Ukraine is facing in recovering its material losses from Russia, the inadequacies of international law and the UN system in dealing with a war of aggression and with claims for reparations and war crimes prosecutions, and he paints a picture of the way forward which could be taken as campaigners and Western politicians work together to find solutions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Steve Middleton is a financial adviser specialised in regulation and he has taken up the cause of Northern Irish business owners who accuse Ulster Bank (a subsidiary of NatWest group) of fraud, which the bank denies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Abigail Bishop is Amazon's "Head of External Relations, Scams Prevention" and her job is to campaign to educate Amazon's customers about scams being run against them around the world. These scams are of multiple types and growing increasingly sophisticated, with Bishop citing low reporting rates as an additional issue. She also spoke about how Amazon investigates other types of fraud such as counterfeiting, and its collaboration with law enforcement in different countries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ex-BBC reporter and ex-Ukrainian finance ministry official Valeriya Melnichuk, who currently advises the Ukrainian government on a campaign to exclude Russia from the global financial sector, talks to host Matei Rosca about her work, past projects, and plans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.