Jun 17, 2020
Frontlines to ICIJ: ‘None of us survive on our own’
What Maud Beelman learned as a war correspondent became the heart of all future ICIJ investigations – after she took the helm as the organization's first director.
Tobacco Underground
Feb 27, 2010
eBook: Tobacco Underground
Jan 27, 2010
The counterfeit cops
Private investigators fight a hidden war against knock-off cigarettes, electronics, toothpaste, and more.
Oct 20, 2009
Video: the most pressing issues in tobacco smuggling
Oct 16, 2009
Video: A wholesaler lays out the local cigarette prices
Notorious as a haven for smugglers and money launderers, Kaliningrad, Russia, is not a place where it’s safe to ask many questions.
Oct 16, 2009
Video: Secret Tour inside the Baltic Tobacco Factory
Jun 29, 2009
China’s Marlboro Country
A massive underground industry makes China the world leader in counterfeit cigarettes.
Jun 29, 2009
Smuggling Made Easy
Landlocked Paraguay emerges as a top producer of contraband tobacco.
Jun 29, 2009
El Gran ‘Duty Free’
Paraguay es uno de los mayores productores mundiales de cigarrillos de contrabando.
Jun 29, 2009
Ukraine’s ‘Lost’ Cigarettes Flood Europe
Big Tobacco’s Overproduction Fuels $2 Billion Black Market.
Jun 02, 2009
Djukanovic’s Montenegro a family business
Mar 27, 2009
Canada’s boom in smuggled cigarettes
Indian tobacco factories, organized crime control a billion-dollar black market.
Dec 19, 2008
Big Tobacco’s New York black market
How America’s Top Cigarette Firms Fueled a Billion-Dollar Underground Trade.
Oct 20, 2008
About this project: Tobacco Underground
Oct 20, 2008
‘The Guy In The Wheelchair’
How an El Paso smuggler moved a half-billion cigarettes across America.