Manon Dillen (1992) has a background in economics and philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. After graduating she started working as a freelance journalist. She joined the Investigative Desk in March 2020. Her investigation about tax evasion in the tobacco industry was nominated for a Tegel in 2020.
From tobacco paradise Indonesia to tax paradise Switzerland: tobacco company Philip Morris makes hundreds of millions euros in profit by advantages it created along the
The Indonesian government is suspected of giving privileges to electronic cigarettes issued by HM Sampoerna. Receiving excise cuts, the IQOS and HEET products enjoy a
The COVID-19 crisis gave a huge boost to remote working. Microsoft is profiting handsomely from this development. The use of the company’s software provides Microsoft
The Dutch CoronaMelder app and its equivalents in other countries are used in around one in twenty-five COVID-19 cases. This has been shown by research
This data below is part of a cross-border investigation into corona-tech, called ‘Spooky Mayfly’. Journalists Dorien Vanmeldert, Tim Verheyden, and Bart Aerts (Belgium), Manon Dillen
Four tobacco companies channel about 40 per cent of their annual profits through the Netherlands to avoid taxes. Despite international measures, this has not yet
New research from the Investigative Desk with support from the University of Bath shows, for the first time on this scale, which tax avoidance methods
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