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"I was finding out who was snitching, who they were working for."
Meet the Russian security guards, including ex-combatants of Wagner, who are stationed aboard Russia's shadow fleet ships to control the captain.
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In undercover interviews, these men have told us they must make sure the shadow fleet tanker reaches its destination without being stopped by western nations as the ship passes through.
In 2025, the vessels carried between $80 and $100 billion worth of oil.
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Our latest investigation is with @dossier_center @FTM_nl @OCCRP @SZ @ndr @thetimes @tijd @vrt @DanWatchDK @pointer_kroncrv @Expressen @DelfiLV @hsfi.
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Congratulations to Costanza Gambarini for being awarded winner of Environment Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards 2026 @Source_Mat
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At the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Essar owed $3.1 billion to VTB, the huge Kremlin-controlled Russian bank.
Our latest investigation, with the Guardian, reveals that its response to sanctions on VTB was to shift the loans out of the EU from Cyprus to Mauritius.
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The upshot? Essar soon owed VTB even more – and authorities in Cyprus are looking closely at whether it broke the rules. Essar says it has complied with all of the applicable sanctions at all times and that it is winding down its VTB relationship. source-material.org/essar-st…
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NEW: In Kenya, poor farmers have gone hungry after signing up for a biofuel project with the Italian oil major Eni, SourceMaterial’s investigation has discovered.
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Interviews with 44 farmers across four Kenyan counties, as well as biofuel experts, activists and lawyers, raise doubts about Eni’s claims, suggesting the project has hit local food production.
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This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and Politico. Read their version here: politico.eu/article/seeds-of…
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In 2022, Italian oil company Eni approached Kenyan farmers with a pitch: plant castor, and we’ll buy the crop to turn into green fuel.
But an investigation by POLITICO and @Source_Mat found many smallholders were left with no pay — and no food.
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“My family really suffered because of the hunger”
As part of a flagship biofuel project, the Italian energy major Eni has handed out castor seeds to over a hundred thousand Kenyan farmers. In interviews with SourceMaterial, many farmers said the project has failed them.
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Meanwhile, trade data analysis indicates that Eni has made up for Kenya’s failing castor harvests by shipping in vast quantities of South African rapeseed—a food crop that the EU says shouldn’t be used in renewable fuels.
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This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @POLITICOEurope.
Read their version here: politico.eu/article/seeds-of…
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Seeds of doubt: how the Italian oil giant Eni handed out castor seeds to over a hundred thousand Kenyan farmers to make biofuel from the harvest, before leaving many without income or food.
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Some castor farmers said they were plunged into poverty after crops failed or Eni’s partners did not come back to buy them.
Others said that even when middlemen did return, they paid less than promised.
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This investigation was a partnership between SourceMaterial and @POLITICOEurope. Read their version here: politico.eu/article/seeds-of…
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NEW: Last month, Indonesian authorities arrested 11 people on suspicion of bribery and disguising palm oil as a less strictly regulated byproduct.
SourceMaterial can reveal that exporters targeted in this probe supplied major international companies.
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This is a months-long investigation involving multiple sources in Indonesia and Europe, and a lot of data and documents. Great reporting by @sarahussein and our partners at @Source_Mat
Mar 16
INVESTIGATION: Indonesian firms targeted in a palm oil fraud probe supplied European firms, an investigation by AFP and SourceMaterial (@Source_Mat) has found.
The European firms include Italian energy giant Eni and Finnish sustainable aviation fuel leader Neste
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