This article explores the relation between suspicion and expertise in the context of activist investigations of offshore corruption. I reconstruct one investigation of alleged corruption in the Azerbaijani oil sector, conducted by a British organization called Global Witness, to explore how suspicion is learned and practised in the face of impenetrable offshore secrecy. For these detectives of global capital, suspicion is both a tool for arriving at an understanding of offshore corporate networks and an orientation that helps them overcome the limits of this understanding, allowing them to make political claims that go beyond what is strictly afforded by evidence and libel law. Extending recent anthropological scholarship that revises the disciplinary emphasis on truth and certainty as the mainstays of expert knowledge, I argue that investigative expertise provides imprecise and suspicious understandings of its objects that are useful despite, or even because of, the ambivalence and suspicion it entails.

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怀疑和专业知识：在离岸调查中追逐金钱

本文在对海上腐败进行激进主义调查的背景下，探讨了怀疑与专业知识之间的关系。我重建了由一家名为“全球见证”的英国组织进行的一项关于阿塞拜疆石油部门涉嫌腐败的调查，以探讨面对不可逾越的海上秘密​​时如何学习和实践怀疑。对于这些全球资本侦探而言，怀疑既是了解离岸公司网络的工具，又是可以帮助他们克服这种了解的局限性的方向，使他们提出的政治主张超出了证据和证据的严格范围。诽谤法。扩展了最近的人类学奖学金，以修改对学科的强调，把真理和确定性作为专家知识的主体，