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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.
A court in Lima found former President Alejandro Toledo guilty of collusion and money laundering after he accepted $35 million in bribes from the construction giant Odebrecht in exchange for approval to build a highway. Plus, a new documentary examines how a U.S. soldier-turned-mercenary became embroiled in a failed coup in Venezuela, and an ICIJ partner uncovers new links between an Indonesian billionaire family and "shadow" companies accused of deforestation.
ICIJ is welcoming 10 new members to its global network, expanding the consortium to three new countries as the journalism nonprofit continues its mission to bring together journalists to tell stories that rock the world. Plus, the U.S. arm of TD Bank has agreed to pay what has been described as an “historic” $3 billion in penalties to settle allegations the bank failed to stop criminal networks passing illicit funds through their accounts, and French authorities seized $75 million of assets linked to two Russian businessmen.
Chilean authorities expect to recoup more than $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes as a result of ICIJ investigations, including the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Bahamas Leaks, new data shows. Plus, advocates have criticized a delay to a key anti-deforestation reform in the EU, and more.
Last week, ICIJ quietly marked three years since the publication of its most ambitious project to date: the Pandora Papers. Based on the most expansive leak of tax haven files in history, the investigation revealed the secret deals and hidden assets of more than 330 politicians and high-level public officials, as well as an array of criminals, corporations and celebrities.
Last year, the Internal Revenue Service took a little-known tax law off the shelf and successfully challenged a $2.4 billion deduction claimed by multinational telecommunications firm Liberty Global. But the role of Liberty Global’s own tax advisor — the accounting giant Deloitte — received minimal scrutiny. Plus, the U.S. officially returned 297 cultural artifacts smuggled out of India, and former billionaire Isabel dos Santos lost an appeal to overturn a global asset freeze.
Behind the scenes of the Swazi Secrets investigation, ICIJ's reporter encountered smiling citizens, gun-toting security, and a simmering undercurrent of fear and mystery. Plus, the U.S. levels new sanctions against alleged senior figures from spyware group Intellexa, and ICIJ partner Expresso reports that former Portuguese official Antonio Mexia kept $5.9 million in assets in a previously unknown offshore company.
A top EU court ordered Apple to pay Ireland over $14 billion in back taxes after ruling that the tech giant received tax advantages — some revealed in ICIJ's Paradise Papers — amounting to an "illegal subsidy." Also, U.S. officials trying to tie a $300 million superyacht to a sanctioned Russian oligarch allege that payments for the boat were made by his niece.
A new ICIJ investigation shows how intense lobbying led the IRS, in 2011, to effectively abandon one of its most powerful tools to take on wealthy tax evaders. Plus, European banking giant Nordea has agreed to pay $35 million to New York’s financial services watchdog, a U.S. government audit finds shortcomings in the FDA’s oversight of risky medical devices, and more.