
maliapolitzer
@maliapolitzer
Award-winning investigative journalist @FinUncovered, formerly @ICIJorg. Migration; antiquities trafficking; forced labor; corporate crime; follow the money.
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http://www.maliapolitzer.com 09-12-2008 20:24:43
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Proud to have been a part of this cross-border collaborative investigation coordinated by Finance Uncovered about potential ethical violations by one of the biggest players in the low-cost, international surrogacy business.



Big 👏 to Simon Bowers, maliapolitzer and Naipanoi Lepapa who made the One World Media long list for our #BabyBrokers investigation into the low-cost surrogacy industry – a story that spans Mexico, Georgia, Estonia and Cambodia. 1/4


FAITH STOLEN/LOST This 15th/16th Century RITUAL BONE APRON Belonging to the Thecho Village, Lalitpur (probably Navadurga Dancers) is Now in the Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA. Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign Erin L. Thompson Emiline Smith vj @ poetryinstone 🇮🇳 Devendra R Bhattarai


Holy moly - the The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hiring 4 provenance researchers to look at “all works that came to the museum from art dealers who have been under investigation” + those acquired 1970-90, "a period of rapid growth" with "less scrutiny on provenance": nytimes.com/2023/05/09/art…

Impact! After we flagged 1,000+ art pieces at The Met tied to alleged looters & traffickers the museum pledges to review its collection - more art to be returned Proud of our reporting & data teamwork 💪 Spencer Woodman maliapolitzer agustin armendariz Karrie Kehoe 🕵️ Jelena Cosic

Impact The Indian Express ICIJ Finance Uncovered 16 smuggled artefacts returned to India, says Met museum amid scrutiny. Investigation had found Met had 77 antiquities traced to smuggler Subhash Kapoor, over 100 others from J & K. Lot more needs to be done indianexpress.com/article/india/…


Who says it’s impossible to peek inside the finances of a global, privately-owned multinational business? Not us! Here’s a fuller explanation of how Finance Uncovered journalists maliapolitzer and Simon Bowers dug into the Sacklers’ international empire. financeuncovered.org/stories/mundip…