Margot Gibbs

Margot Gibbs is an investigative journalist specialising in UK facilitation of corruption, natural resources and the environment. She has covered corruption in the Nigerian oil industry for Africa Confidential, revealed secret contracts underpinning a private tax haven in the Marshall Islands, and produced critically-acclaimed radio for BBC Radio 4.

Working with NGOs, she has investigated corruption in the arms industry and the London property market, financing of environmentally destructive palm oil projects in Indonesia, and conflicts of interest in the UK accounting regulator.

She is an expert in obtaining documents via freedom of information laws and has uncovered stories which have provoked policy changes in the UK and internationally.

gadani, shipbreaking

‘A moral crime’: Leaked contract reveals how shipowners wash their hands of toxic vessels via offshore world

Confidential documents leaked as part of a major collaboration between investigative journalists reveal how international …

Margot Gibbs on July 23, 2019

Investigations Money Laundering

The Swiss chateau, the British oil trader and Nigeria’s OPL245 ‘corruption’ scandal

Finance Uncovered worked with The Times in London and journalists and activists in its international …

Margot Gibbs on May 2, 2019

Investigations London

Revealed: The UK company and Caribbean tax haven cashing in on one of the world’s deadliest trades – shipbreaking

A UK company that acts as a formal outpost for a tiny Caribbean tax haven …

Margot Gibbs on February 20, 2019

Investigations Tax Havens

How to Inherit a Villa, Kremlin Style

We discovered the family of Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s former deputy first prime minister, owned a …

Margot Gibbs on December 13, 2018

The London Connection Uncategorized

Fugitive Indian arms dealer plush Mayfair pad revealed

Ananya Bhardwaj, special correspondent at India’s The Print, attended our investigating illicit finance training in …

Margot Gibbs on October 1, 2018

Investigations Money Laundering

Exclusive: UK fraudsters’ Dubai properties identified

We dug through #DubaiLeaks files, a cache of Dubai property ownership data passed to the …

Margot Gibbs on June 24, 2018

Dubai Leaks

Investigations The London Connection

Dubai Leaks: Was Nigeria’s OPL245 oil cash laundered in secretive Emirate?

By Margot Gibbs and Lionel Faull A leak of private property data in Dubai has …

Margot Gibbs on June 12, 2018

Lord Sheikh, Dubai Leaks

Dubai Leaks: Tory peer forced to apologise over luxury apartments

By Margot Gibbs A Tory peer has apologised for failing to disclose properties he owned …

Margot Gibbs on June 12, 2018