Journalism about the secret places where power, money and crime meet
A little about me
In the slightly more than a decade I’ve been a journalist I’ve reported from the inside of Romanian internet brothels and pursued monkey smugglers down dusty dirt roads in Cambodia. Along the way I’ve developed an obsession with three themes: big money, big power and big crime. What’s become apparent along the way is that the three overlap in reliably unexpected ways, often hidden just out of view. They are the tangled threads undergirding life as we know it, and I’m forever searching for new threads to tug upon.
And my work
The last communist to serve as a European head of state, Vladimir Voronin was dressed in a denim shirt at his desk in the party headquarters in Chisinau. Behind him an easel propped up a painting of the Second Bolshevik Congress of 1917. Except on closer inspection it was not Lenin addressing the crowd. In fact, the orator’s face looked suspiciously like Voronin’s. That’s because it is, he said. Every face was a member of his cabinet from his election in 2001 until 2009, when popular protests forced his resignation. There, a security minister; here, a minister of agriculture. “Out of all these people,” he said, “only two have not betrayed me.”
— from ‘Fields of Gold’, my 2019 investigation with Liuba Sevicuk into the monopolisation of Moldovan agriculture.
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