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Thousands of emails obtained by ICIJ offer an unprecedented glimpse inside the sophisticated sales operation that has funneled more than $1.7 billion from U.S. states and municipalities to Israel since the war in Gaza began. Plus, G20 finance leaders vow to tax the ultrarich after a meeting in Rio de Janeiro but hedge on how to do so.
As Venezuela heads into a critical election on July 28, a new report details how the Latin American country became a laboratory for digital repression, bolstering the current regime and accelerating democratic backsliding across the region. Plus, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema fired the board of the country’s anti-graft body, and we asked two experts why Russian disinformation campaigns keep citing ICIJ investigations.
A former aide to President Joe Biden and the leader of a group raising money to help his re-election campaign helped to organize a meeting between Sen. Robert Menendez and a member of the Qatari royal family. Plus, Treasury says a yearlong IRS push to recover back taxes from millionaires has yielded more than $1 billion, and Nordea bank faces charges for allegedly violating anti-money laundering laws.
Late Friday, a Panamanian judge acquitted all 28 defendants of money laundering charges in the Panama Papers-related trial. Legal experts say the ruling raises questions about the progress of Panama’s anti-corruption efforts but the country’s new president welcomed it, labeling the 2016 investigation “an international hoax." Plus, economist Gabriel Zucman touts a proposal for governments to tax the ultrarich and raise up to $250 billion per year.
Last week, the IRS announced its next move in a long-faltering fight against tax dodging: proposing to close a long-time loophole that enables corporate structures to maximize tax deductions and minimize tax liability. Plus, big oil companies reject an activist-led transparency push, and more.
In December 2021, months after Zambia's former president was ousted, Zambian financial crime investigators alerted their counterparts in Eswatini to years-old serious corruption allegations against him, our latest Swazi Secrets investigation reveals. Plus, Lithuania takes a step towards amending its citizenship laws after revelations Roman Abramovich's children used Lithuanian passports as part of a financial restructuring.
Newly obtained data shows the IRS division that audits corporations and the ultrarich flagged no more than 22 possible tax crimes over the past five years — roughly 40 times fewer criminal referrals than from the unit covering small businesses. Plus, ICIJ member Thomas Maier's follow-up to "Masters of Sex" is set to premiere in July.
A former bank executive claims to have uncovered billions of dollars of “hidden” transactions carried out by Standard Chartered Bank for sanctioned Iranian entities and international “terror groups,” according to a new court filing. The whistleblower accused the U.S. government of ignoring “damning evidence” he shared with them a decade ago. Plus, wealth and corporate taxes remain a sticking point in early U.N. negotiations over a global tax convention.
The latest story in ICIJ’s Swazi Secrets investigation reveals how millions in suspicious transactions flowed into the bank accounts of a controversial Swazi pastor and his church for years through a network of politically connected people — including a diplomat with ties to South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress. Plus, a new report on money laundering through U.S. commercial real estate, and more.
Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian nationals have poured billions into Dubai’s exclusive real estate market, according to a new report by European economists. Among the investors were key players in Russian politics and state-owned companies, as well as colorful characters — including a spy. Plus, the U.S. Treasury touts plans to tackle illicit finance, and journalists in Slovakia fear a crackdown on press freedom after the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Newly leaked property records show how one the Middle East’s most exclusive real estate markets became a choice spot for those with ill-gotten cash to splash, including members of a deadly global drug cartel; Angolan former billionaire Isabel dos Santos; and Bulgaria’s self-described “Cryptoqueen” turned one of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives.
Tristan Tate, a social media influencer whose brother Andrew Tate is known for his misogynistic views, used a Caribbean-based bank to process payments from an adult webcam platform, leaked documents show. Plus, Mexico’s president responds to a new investigation by ICIJ and its media partners into the dangerous smuggling of migrants to the U.S. border in cargo trucks.
A new collaboration from ICIJ and media partners in Latin America, Europe and the United States documents nearly 19,000 migrants’ dangerous journeys to the U.S. border in cargo trucks. The smuggling business has historically been controlled by a loose network of smugglers called coyotes or polleros. But it has grown to generate an estimated billions of dollars a year for cartels.
U.K. authorities froze a multimillion-dollar London townhouse linked to Igor Komarov roughly one week after ICIJ revealed the property appeared untouched by sanctions against the Kremlin official. Plus, a new report details how China used harassment and kidnappings to coerce overseas Chinese nationals to come home; and a global accountants’ ethics board seeks to rebuild trust in the industry.
ICIJ’s latest investigation reveals Eswatini’s unexplored role as a possible conduit in southern Africa’s gold smuggling economy — and how the absolute monarchy’s weak anti-money laundering controls enable figures close to the royal family to benefit from proximity to the king.