In November 2014, ICIJ and dozens of media partners published a groundbreaking exposé of corporate tax avoidance in the heart of Europe. A decade later, the impacts are still being felt.
Former employees of the group said that the Tanotos — who own a “sustainable” pulp and paper giant — were allegedly secretly undermining the conglomerate’s environmental commitments.
Alejandro Toledo was found guilty of accepting $35 million from the Brazilian construction company in exchange for a lucrative highway contract.
The new members hail from nine countries, including for the first time reporters from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Equatorial Guinea.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Canada-based bank “created an environment that allowed financial crime to flourish.”
A police report obtained by ICIJ partner Agência Pública claims an offshore company created by Mossack Fonseca in 2012 is part of a cluster of firms that allegedly laundered money from drug trafficking.
The subject of ICIJ’s Luanda Leaks investigation is being sued by Angolan telecom operator Unitel over loans made to a Netherlands-registered company she controlled.
A new leak sheds light on the ownership of an offshore account found in the Pandora Papers, an ICIJ partner revealed.
Behind the scenes of ICIJ’s Swazi Secrets investigation, reporters encountered smiling citizens, gun-toting security, and a simmering undercurrent of fear and mystery.
As the United States clamped down on the Intellexa group for the second time this year, advocates criticized Europe’s lack of action against commercial spyware creators.
A panel of expert journalists in tracking organized crime’s finances and operations share their top methods, tools, and security protocols.
For decades, businesses have promoted their sustainability credentials based on voluntary certifications, but a new study identified gaps in such schemes, including some that previously came under scrutiny from ICIJ.
Despite high-profile efforts to repatriate Khmer artifacts, the expulsion of the longtime advocate continues an ongoing saga for the museum.
A top New York regulator said the Finland-listed bank had been implicated in several global scandals including ICIJ’s 2016 exposé, which showed Nordea helped hundreds of customers create offshore companies in tax havens.
The spate of repatriations followed extensive efforts to trace and recover looted ancient artifacts, including some identified by ICIJ and linked to disgraced art dealer Douglas Latchford.
Four advocacy organizations have written to authorities in Portugal and Angola, demanding to know what has become of assets seized from Angolan former first daughter Isabel dos Santos’ sprawling financial empire.
The luxury Riviera property featured in ICIJ’s investigation into then-Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ secret offshore dealings, and is now part of a money laundering probe by French authorities.
GIJN surveyed dozens of investigative outlets in the region to ask them what defines Latin American investigative journalism, what its strengths are, and where it will go next.
A group of six countries has agreed to work together to shut down money laundering operations tied to logging, mining and wildlife harvesting wreaking havoc on the rainforest.
ICIJ’s Cyprus Confidential revealed that as sanctions loomed amid Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a Cyprus financial services firm transferred millions from an account it managed for the Russian billionaire.
Judges praised the ICIJ-led investigation as “an exemplary model for global collaboration in environmental reporting.”
One expert called Venezuela’s sprawling surveillance, disinformation and censorship campaigns a model for “the future of authoritarianism elsewhere in the world.”
The surprise dissolution follows corruption allegations against the commission by one of its own board members — and highlights political constraints on financial reporting and anti-corruption institutions raised in the Swazi Secrets leak.
ICIJ spoke to disinformation experts about how these campaigns fuse fact with fiction, and engage in narrative laundering to trick audiences.
The tax agency, once beleaguered by budget cuts, has sought to use an influx of funding under the Biden administration to boost enforcement of tax laws on the rich and large corporations.