JuicyFields: He said he was the driver
A suspect in the Spanish JuicyFields case told a Madrid court he was only the alleged mastermind's driver. Svenskhampa tests that claim against company registers, archived web pages and JuicyFields' own documents. He has not been charged or convicted.
9 October 2026Global news →
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JuicyFields: The German industry that made it possible
How does an investment fraud earn trust? Using JuicyFields' own marketing, correspondence with authorities and trade fair pages, Svenskhampa maps the German lawyers, consultants, fairs and trade media that stood beside the company after Berlin police had confirmed an investigation.
10 September 2026
JuicyFields: He said no. They published anyway.
A case study in source protection. Archived copies show what Deutsche Welle's Russian service published about its own anonymous source in the JuicyFields story, and how those details were later removed in two stages.
24 August 2026
JuicyFields: the fraud that helped fund the war
Photo metadata as evidence: 109 of 143 published wedding photos are stamped 15 June 2022, placing a celebration in occupied Crimea weeks before JuicyFields collapsed. Together with company registers, the images show which men from the JuicyFields story were there.
24 August 2026
JuicyFields: Ten leading questions and one direct one
Written instructions from Cape Town show a documentary's paying client telling a journalist to ask ten leading questions and one direct one, with the answer decided in advance. One of the journalists refused in writing.
23 August 2026
Sembu Gbla: The sources that did not exist
Registry work in practice: three industry bodies quoted by a Botswana newspaper against the country's first licensed hemp producer all lead back to one man in London, and seven of twelve organisations in the cluster have no members. Svenskhampa discloses a commercial interest in the case.
11 August 2026
KKOG: He sold bricks
A California regulator's 2022 order describes investment units sold online as "bricks", with promised monthly dividends. Svenskhampa follows the same executive to a 2026 CNBC Africa appearance as head of KKOG Global.
31 July 2026