Ted Jeory

Ted Jeory is an award-winning journalist who changed career from accountancy in 2002, having worked for the likes of JP Morgan and Mobil Oil.

Since then he has worked as a news, politics and social affairs reporter and editor in local and national newspapers. He also spent many years writing an acclaimed blog about the corrupted politics of Tower Hamlets in east London.

He is passionate about journalism being a force for good at grass-roots levels and while deputy editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, he created the idea for its award-winning Bureau Local project. He joined Finance Uncovered as co-director in January 2017.

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Investigations The London Connection

How court papers revealed massive boardroom bust-up and bribery allegations at Berkeley Group

Bosses at Berkeley Group, the phenomenally successful housebuilder, were accused by their own former finance director …

Nick Mathiason on November 22, 2018

Investigations The London Connection

Dubai Leaks: Confidential property records suggest Emirate is world’s ‘Costa del Crime’

A major leak of property and residency records has revealed the owners of hundreds of …

Ted Jeory on June 12, 2018

Money Laundering The London Connection

OPL 245 oil deal: Vince Cable says Home Office must explain why its anti-corruption arm agreed JP Morgan’s $875m payments to money launderer

Lib Dem leader and former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has called on the Home …

Nick Mathiason on April 6, 2018

Money Laundering The London Connection

OPL 245 oil scandal: JP Morgan reveals UK cops gave go-ahead to transfer $875m to convicted money launderer

The UK’s frontline anti-money laundering unit gave the green light to transfer $875m from a …

Ted Jeory on April 5, 2018

Money Laundering The London Connection

Malabu OPL245 Scandal: Nigeria sues JP Morgan for $875m over ‘grossly negligent’ payments to money launderer

US banking giant JP Morgan is being sued by the Federal Republic of Nigeria for $875m in the London courts over its alleged failure to block payments made from a massive oil deal that is subject to a string of international corruption investigations.

The Nigerian state quietly issued a civil claim in the High Court in late November, arguing JP Morgan had been “grossly negligent” when it was banker to a previous government.

Ted Jeory on December 17, 2017