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Acoustic Adventures #1 and #2 writeup This is a writeup of the first two of five Acoustic Adventures osint challenges https://challenge.bellingcat.com/

Baby gifted me with a longer-than-usual nap and I could tackle a couple of challenges from the latest @bellingcat.com OSINT challenge, this time focused on audio. Gave the third one a try too, but that seems harder than I thought.

#Osint #osintchallenge

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Five Questions on the Gold Trade Mark Pieth, a Swiss lawyer and professor of criminal law, discusses the issues raised by a recent OCCRP investigation into how weak industry regulations may have allowed gold from conflict areas in Ve...

In this interview released to @occrp.org, Mark Pieth, one of the leading experts on illicit gold flows, answers five questions about an investigation I spent nearly a year on.

It traces a multibillion-dollar opaque gold trade #Venezuela, #Curaçao, and #Switzerland.

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“It’s a country with no gold of its own—yet until recently, Switzerland refined nearly 70% of the world’s gold. That share may have dropped to around 50%, but it remains the global hub for gold refining. That alone raises serious questions.”

Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

ah ho capito. la legenda può essere fraintesa in effetti. Il rosso è su 0% Sì (cioè 100% No). magari quando ho un minuto provo a mettere qualcosa di meno ambiguo. Grazie!

I colori sono una scala di azzurri (da chiaro a scuro) per l'affluenza, e una scala da blu (per il sì) a rosso (per il no) per i risultati. Cosa cambieresti?

ops, dove?

El oro de Guayana llegó incluso a Silicon Valley con sello suizo Un esquema comercial utilizó documentación engañosa para mover unas 90 toneladas de oro venezolano, valoradas en 3.000 millones de dólares, contribuyendo a perpetuar la catástrofe ambiental y de derec...

A Swiss gold refinery, which serves as a supplier to tech giants such as Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia, received shipments of Venezuelan blood gold from Curaçao for years and processed them.

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Conflict-Tainted Venezuelan Gold Entered World Market Through Caribbean Island, Documents Indicate The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island? The evidence points to their origin in con...

Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island? The evidence points to their origin in conflict areas in Venezuela — highlighting weaknesses in gold industry rules that persist today. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

La ruta de la 'chatarra' venezolana: oro que se vende por toda Europa | lamarea.com Una isla sin minas exportó miles de millones en oro venezolano a una de las mayores refinerías del mundo. Una nueva investigación revela cómo funcionaba la operación.

🛑 Orígenes dudosos del oro: Aunque Curazao no tiene minas, grandes cantidades de oro llegaban allí desde Venezuela, donde guerrillas y organizaciones criminales controlaban la minería.

Conflict-Tainted Venezuelan Gold Entered World Market Through Caribbean Island, Documents Indicate The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island? The evidence points to their origin in con...

The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits, but tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island. Their origin is traced to conflict areas in Venezuela. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

🔎 New investigation by @irpimedia.eu, Armando.Info and @occrp.org reveals that more than 70 tonnes of gold sourced largely from Venezuela’s Amazon were routed through Curaçao and refined in Europe before entering the global supply chains of companies such as Apple, Tesla and Nvidia.
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👇👇👇 The full story 👇👇👇

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Gold was moved under the label of “gold scrap”, hence differentiating it from the highly problematic Venezuelan mining sector.

The refinery said its own laboratory tests confirmed this. But a sample of data we independently obtained seems to contradict this claim

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The gold was sourced in Venezuela, where the suppliers would use it to switch bolivares into dollars.

Among them, an individual currently on trial in Brazil for trafficking Venezuelan gold and another who admitted of running an illegal currency exchange scheme through gold.

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Leaked documents show how the gold was moved by a broker in Curacao, who received it from Venezuela and shipped it to Europe.

When it reached Swiss customs, the Country of Origin was the Caribbean island, despite the absence of mines or enough pawn shops to justify those volumes.

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🚨 New investigation just dropped 🚨

For years, tainted Venezuelan gold reached one of the most prestigious Swiss refineries.
Clear red flags didn’t prevent more than 70t of gold, valued at $2.2B, to enter the global markets via the front door.

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Conflict-Tainted Venezuelan Gold Entered World Market Through Caribbean Island, Documents Indicate The Caribbean island of Curaçao has no natural gold deposits. So why did dozens of tons of gold refined at a prestigious Swiss refinery come from the island? The evidence points to their origin in con...

Argor-Heraeus hat @occrp.org, @irpimedia.eu & Armandoinfo zufolge Gold aus Venezuela im Wert von über 2 Mrd. $ raffiniert.

Laut der Schweizer Raffinerie handelte es sich um „scrap“, Experten sehen auch Hinweise auf Minengold.

Starke Recherche von @marcodallastella.com www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Headed to Lima to share some recent work, meet brilliant people, soak up a bit of summer, and eat an unreasonable amount of ceviche. ❤️🇵🇪

La engañosa etiqueta del oro "reciclado" - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad Además de entrañar riesgos de 'greenwashing', esta es una de las estrategias utilizadas para introducir oro ilícito en las cadenas de suministro globales.

El oro es un material con propiedades únicas. Y eso, precisamente, lo convierte en el material ideal para sustentar actividades ilícitas.

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La ruta de la 'chatarra' venezolana: oro que se vende por toda Europa | lamarea.com Una isla sin minas exportó miles de millones en oro venezolano a una de las mayores refinerías del mundo. Una nueva investigación revela cómo funcionaba la operación.

Una investigación revela cómo Curazao, una isla sin minas, exportó miles de millones en oro venezolano a una de las mayores refinerías del mundo. Este corredor permitió introducir en el mercado global más de 2.000 millones de dólares en oro. Por @marcodallastella.com
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Impresionante esta investigación de @marcodallastella.com sobre el proceso por el cual una isla sin minas como Curazao es el punto clave para introducir oro en toda Europa.

Oro sporco. Come decine di tonnellate di oro venezuelano sono arrivate in Europa L’inchiesta svela un commercio da oltre due miliardi di dollari in oro transitato attraverso i Caraibi, raffinato in Svizzera e Italia e immesso nelle filiere globali della tecnologia e dell’oreficeri...

L'inchiesta fa luce sui meccanismi di una filiera che, tra il 2012 e il 2018, ha fatto arrivare oltre 90 tonnellate di oro venezuelano a raffinerie in Italia, Turchia e, soprattutto, Svizzera.
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No One Receiving (2004 Digital Remaster) YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic

There's an album that finds me every year in these weeks

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Marco I am an investigative and data journalist. I love finding interesting data published in random ways and find ways of making it clean, tidy and ready to use for the organization that might need it.

È anche arrivata la prima offerta su buymeacoffee.com/marcodallast... 🥳 ☕

La bella notizia è che al sorgere dei problemi mi sono arrivate diverse segnalazioni da parte di organizzazioni della società civile e perfino dal sindacato polizia penitenziaria. Segno che si tratta di un progetto apprezzato e, soprattutto, utile.

Con qualche giorno di ritardo ho sistemato un problema con i dati di sovraffollamentocarcerario.it. A quanto parte il Ministero ha problemi col cambio di data.

Estás a tiempo de convertir una de nuestras recompensas en un regalo 😍

1️⃣Dona en www.goteo.org/project/la-f... y escoge la que prefieras

2️⃣Imprime este vale drive.google.com/file/d/1kUnZ...

La segunda ronda sigue avanzando. En un rato serán solo 11 los días que falten para el final del crowdfunding.

Llegar al objetivo óptimo es importante. Y te contamos por qué en cifras.

🙌Haz que nuestra comunidad sea más fuerte
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