Original Stories from FinCEN Files
Explore the original investigative stories at the heart of the investigation.
Nov 30, 2020
The public knew he was crooked in 2009. Big banks helped him stash millions until 2017.
Despite a long record of fraud, a New Jersey con man was able to swindle hundreds of victims around the world who were promised cheap used cars.
Oct 13, 2020
The fastest way to send criminal cash: money transmitters
How companies like Western Union and MoneyGram play a hidden role in laundering cash from around the globe.
Sep 23, 2020
‘Wired to make money’: Barclays’ private bankers serve ultra-rich, as watchdogs sound alarms
The FinCEN Files investigation exposes tensions between British bank’s New York and London operations.
Sep 22, 2020
With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland
Secret transactions, lost jobs, worker injuries, gutted buildings, unpaid bills: Ihor Kolomoisky’s untold American legacy.
Sep 22, 2020
Mystery company ties accused temple raiders to art world elite
Where in the world is Pantheon Worldwide? Not even its own bank can say.
Sep 21, 2020
HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine
FinCEN Files probe reveals Europe’s biggest bank aided massive Ponzi scheme while on probation over ties to drug kingpins.
Sep 21, 2020
US Treasury Department abandoned major money laundering case against Dubai gold company
The Kaloti probe offers rare insight into the illicit gold trade.
Sep 21, 2020
How banks helped Venezuela’s ‘boligarchs’ extract billions
The FinCEN Files show public money pouring out of the collapsing country.
Sep 21, 2020
Inside scandal-rocked Danske Estonia and the shell-company ‘factories’ that served it
The FinCEN Files reveal how a handful of secretive agencies mass-produce U.K. shell companies owned by criminals and launderers from former Soviet states.
Sep 20, 2020
Unchecked by global banks, dirty cash destroys dreams and lives
From Ukraine to the United States, from Tunisia to Turkmenistan, a global ICIJ investigation details the punishing human cost of laundered trillions.