ICIJ reviewed hundreds of pages of court records to examine the Big Four firm's role in a controversial tax maneuver, which one expert labeled "easily replicable."
High-powered tax attorneys bemoaned the 2010 legislation meant to crack down on big-dollar tax shelters. They ended up writing parts of an IRS directive that essentially undid it.
In a year when governments announced new policies and renewed focus on stopping deforestation, the credibility of key "green" certification schemes in a $220 billion industry remains in question.
With help from PwC Cyprus, Hushang Ansary set up shell companies and oversaw a series of transactions that authorities say drained a Curacao fund holding pensions for 30,000 people.
The Big Four firm has served dozens of oligarchs through its Cyprus branch, undermining global efforts to punish Putin's allies and stymie support for Russia's war machine.
The global accounting and auditing firm has featured in multiple ICIJ investigations, as well as legal and ethical dustups around the world.
The U.S. regulator tasked with ensuring audit quality has found an uptick in deficiencies three years in a row. But its efforts to force auditors to change don’t seem to be working.
The revelations mirror Deforestation Inc. findings from around the world, which showed how auditing firms hired as environmental verifiers often ignore or fail to identify serious transgressions by their clients.
After ICIJ’s Deforestation Inc. investigation revealed widespread issues with environmental certification schemes, a draft new rule would force companies to substantiate the claims they use to market to European consumers.
Records show how environmental certification firms and middlemen legitimize deals that start with Myanmar’s brutal junta and end as yacht decks.
Deforestation Inc. uncovers how companies in the forest-products industry have violated environmental laws even while auditing firms certified their products as “sustainable.”
A new ICIJ-led cross-border investigation exposes how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations when granting environmental certifications.
The firm vouched for an Indonesian company with a supply chain beset by deforestation allegations and a project in Canada that led to an Indigenous forest’s “death by a thousand cuts”.
What is Deforestation Inc? Where is the investigation data coming from? What does Deforestation Inc reveal and why does the investigation matter?
Deforestation Inc. is an investigation organized and led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in collaboration with 43 media partners.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the public interest in leaking the data showing how multinationals spirited profits to the tiny nation outweighed the detrimental effect.
Three years after Luanda Leaks exposed how Africa’s wealthiest woman created a shell empire to move tainted billions, the billionaire and her financial advisers continue to be dogged by investigations.
Longtime PwC client Alexey Mordashov was hailed as Russia’s richest man in 2021. The Pandora Papers reveal his ties to murky transactions with companies linked to a key Putin associate.
Baker McKenzie has been a pioneer in corporate tax dodging. It now acts for notorious tycoons, arms makers and authoritarian regimes operating in the shadow economy.
Banks, prosecutors and the head of PWC have responded to our Luanda Leaks investigation in the past two days.
A former employee of the audit firm has been charged for leaking confidential Luxembourg tax rulings.
Global accounting giants are prime architects of the offshore money maze — and supporting characters in an array of offshore scandals.