The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Four years ago, Ben Delo pleaded guilty in the US to wilfully failing to maintain an anti-money-laundering programme at BitMEX, the crypto betting platform that made him his fortune.

Pardoned by Donald Trump in 2025, he has now pledged £44m to Reform UK becoming one of the biggest donors in British political history.

Jess Davies was among the victims of the Grok deepfake scandal last Christmas, when explicit AI-generated images were being posted on X at rates of up to 6,000 per hour.

She reported the post to the police but her case was closed in May with officers unable to identify the user in question.

🚨 New episode Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, generated an estimated 3 million explicit deepfake images of women in January 2026 – at a rate of 6,000 per hour As British police continue to struggle to track down perpetrators, survivors are taking matters into their own hands

In this episode of Misaligned, TBIJ reporter Lydia Morrish pulls back the curtain on Grok’s underlying code and uncovers the barriers that have put law enforcement at a significant disadvantage when trying to take on Big Tech

Earlier this month, we published an investigation that revealed how Deloitte Cyprus and its spin-off, MeritServus, spent a decade falsifying paperwork that helped Roman Abramovich hide his wealth and dodge tax. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

The UK is responsible for less than 1 per cent of the world’s emissions. Why should we bother with Net Zero when we are not polluting like China, the US or India?

A whistleblower from inside the food industry shares that the UK is much closer to a supply chain disaster than most people think. Droughts in the Mediterranean have hiked up the price of oranges - and soon the crisis won’t be cost, but availability. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Reform UK has said that if it won power, it would enable health and safety inspectors to carry out immigration checks.

Earlier this year, we met fans at a Tommy Robinson rally who had no idea that Danny Bones, whose songs were being played at the event, was an AI-generated character. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

We also spoke to artists who had worked with the men behind Danny Bones about their involvement in the music industry and the rise of AI-generated rap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hVI...

Earlier this year, we met fans at a Tommy Robinson rally who had no idea that Danny Bones, whose songs were being played at the event, was an AI-generated character. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

🚨 WATCH NOW ON YOUTUBE He has millions of views, thousands of Spotify streams, and his tracks are blasted at Tommy Robinson’s rallies. There’s just one problem: Danny Bones doesn’t exist.

How do you hide your money like a Russian oligarch?

This is our investigation into how Deloitte helped Roman Abramovich hide $10 billion by falsifying corporate documents. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

The accountancy giant Deloitte fabricated corporate documents to help Roman Abramovich conceal at least $10bn in assets and dodge large amounts of tax. We found more than 1,000 corporate records that had been “backdated” – given a fake earlier timestamp – sometimes by as far as five years.

When John Kent first asked the auditor to issue a public interest report for the accounts of Thurrock Council, he didn’t know the extent of its disastrous investment strategy.

Armed with our reporting, he was able to argue that some of the council’s deals were unlawful because they breached rules that prohibited local authorities from borrowing money just to reinvest it for profit.

The ‘child-focused court’ system is designed to centre children’s voices and avoid drawn-out, adversarial proceedings where the child’s voice can get lost.

However, a mother has recently appealed a decision where a judge has ruled that her children should have four days of contact per month with her abusive ex-partner. Her appeal was largely unsuccessful.

‘Swarmchaser’ researchers who hunt down AI agents have just uncovered an incident involving a Chinese model. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Similar swarms of agents from OpenAI have tried to hack government websites in the US, Canada and Australia, key online resources for developers like HuggingFace and RubyGem, as well as the UN.

‘Swarmchaser’ researchers who hunt down AI agents have just uncovered an incident involving a Chinese model. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

The agents have been trying to access data from Amap, a Chinese maps and navigation app, to find out how many people were travelling to certain spots. And it looks like the incident was part of a new model being put through its paces.

Why are parents revolting against iPads in schools? Our latest investigation examines the phenomenon at Eton and state schools across the country.

We can reveal that air pollution from factory farms cost England and Wales over £130m in public money in 2024.

Much of that cost is borne by the NHS because of health issues caused by farms’ ammonia emissions. Ammonia reacts to form airborne particles that enter the bloodstream and cause or compound asthma, lung conditions, heart disease and other chronic illness.