Jan Walraven works as an investigative journalist for the Belgian investigative journalism website Apache.

Jan Walraven graduated as master in journalism (2010) and master in international politics (2012) at the University of Ghent. He has been writing for Apache since April 2015. Earlier in 2015 he reported on the Israeli elections as a freelancer and in 2014 he worked as a reporter in the Palestinian territories.

He wrote the book "The Theft of the Century", about privacy and the tentacles of technology.

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Name
Jan Walraven
Expertise
privacy, data capitalism
Country
Belgium
City
Antwerp
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The Russian Connection

BRUSSELS - For years, the Belgian political world rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs. That truth is now becoming all the more painfully clear.

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The battle between Antwerp and Rotterdam for trading positions in Brazil

PORTO DO ACU - For the construction of the Brazilian port of Porto do Açu, hundreds of families were forcibly evicted from their land. Fishermen lost their livelihoods and the promised jobs in the port never came. The port also turned up in one of the biggest corruption scandals in Brazil. All this did not stop the port of Antwerp from investing 20 million dollars in this controversial project.

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Transparency index of political parties in 2016

  • Politics

BRUSSELS - For the first time in Belgium, political parties were evaluated for their transparency.

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