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The Kremlin is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send military equipment to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, leaked documents reveal. Plus, a leading boxing “fixer” claims that international crime boss Daniel Kinahan secretly struck a multimillion-dollar deal with a top global fight promoter, and more.
Investigative news organizations worldwide are scrambling to survive and fearing a backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. Plus, the U.S. withdrawal from global tax agreements and negotiations has upended international cooperation efforts, but some tax justice advocates say it could herald positive change.
Timur Kulibayev, the billionaire son-in-law of Kazakhstan's former president, is reportedly negotiating a deal to pay about $1 billion to the state amid a government probe. Plus, a U.S. political strategist says an Uzbek businessman asked him to lobby for sanctions against a political rival.
British lawmakers have called for an investigation into Roman Abramovich’s offshore financial affairs after reporting by ICIJ's media partners revealed the oligarch may owe up to $1.24 billion in U.K. tax. Plus, a controversial $150 million World Bank project was terminated in Tanzania after allegations of forced evictions, rapes and extrajudicial killings.
JPMorgan Chase for years understated the risk it posed to the financial system, according to a whistleblower who claimed that America’s largest bank made billions of dollars by violating rules established to protect the global economy from crisis. Plus, the future of the Corporate Transparency Act, a landmark anti-corruption law, remains uncertain after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and more.
ICIJ’s Marcos Garcia Reyes shares takeaways from his three-day reporting trip in Spain, tracking down Kazakh oligarch Timur Kulibayev and his properties on the coast. Plus, the U.K.’s anti-corruption minister steps down, and ICIJ looks back on Luanda Leaks’ fifth anniversary.
A federal judge approved the IRS’s request to demand records about U.S. taxpayers from a Manhattan-based affiliate of the Trident Trust, one of the offshore firms at the center of ICIJ’s Pandora Papers investigation. Plus, a new platform spearheaded by an ICIJ member in Peru tracks corruption cases in Latin America and beyond.
Syria’s intelligence services launched an investigation into the Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism after it reported on Damascus’ business links with Europe, a cache of confidential memos reveals. Plus, Nigerian authorities arrested “Christy Gold,” the alleged ringleader of a criminal network that forced women into sex work in Dubai, and Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they’re still waiting for compensation for labor abuses.
When one of ICIJ’s Casbian Cabals reporters traveled to Kazakhstan in search of answers to a decade-old mystery, nothing went to plan. So, she made a new one: old-school shoe-leather reporting. Plus, new data shows IRS criminal referrals hit a 40-year low in 2024, and more.
Five years since ICIJ’s China Cables investigation, Uyghurs in exile and advocates say the ethnic minority group’s conditions haven’t improved. But, despite human rights concerns, Chinese weapons makers are finding buyers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Plus, a new Human Rights Watch report details alleged abuse of models by webcam studios across Colombia.
New data released this week by database firm OpenCorporates revealed that the number of incorporations in Wyoming shot up by an unprecedented 30% in 2023, the Cowboy State bucking its way past Delaware to take top spot in the country on a registrations-per-capita measure. Plus, Caspian Cabals stories from ICIJ's partners, and the Dutch yachtmaker who built Jeff Bezos' superyacht fined for teak use.
Ten years ago a mysterious health crisis ushered in the end of Berezovka. Caspian Cabals, ICIJ’s latest investigation, found the village’s former residents are still grappling with chronic illness and broken promises. Plus, the U.K. sanctions former billionaire Isabel dos Santos, and Canadian lawmakers say they were “played for suckers” by the owner of Canada’s largest pulp and paper company.
Caspian Cabals reveals how Western oil companies ignored bribery risks and massive cost overruns to secure their stake in a critical Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, then delivered substantial control of it to the Kremlin.
A godson of King Charles worked closely with an American financier accused by the U.S. government of evading taxes on more than $350 million in profits, according to corporate documents. Plus, Scottish police said they will not investigate Interpol president Major General Ahmed Naser al-Raisi over a torture complaint, and one year on from the Cyprus Confidential critics say reform efforts have stalled.
In November 2014, ICIJ and dozens of media partners published a groundbreaking exposé of corporate tax avoidance in the heart of Europe: Luxembourg Leaks. A decade later, the impacts are still being felt. Plus, a new Oxfam report estimated that up to $41 billion of the World Bank’s spending on climate finance is impossible to track.