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Records reveal how Chinese lenders loaded Zambia with loans, then played hardball to recover debt from a struggling borrower. Plus, Brazilian authorities are seeking answers on Bolsonaro’s spy chief at large in Florida, and how a sanctioned Kremlin payment firm is moving billions in ‘untraceable’ cash into the global financial system.
ICIJ looks back at how Pandora Papers-inspired movements to enshrine transparency into law have sputtered and stalled around the world. Also, inside the paper trail Deloitte helped Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich doctor to conceal his fortune, how a Hungarian oligarch funded former primer minister Victor Orban’s propaganda machine, and more.
The U.S. Treasury granted a company linked to a Trump ballroom donor authorization to do a multimillion-dollar deal with a sanctioned Russian bank, according to public records. Plus, China Capital stories reverberate around the globe, and Chinese tech giant Huawei is on trial in New York.
A cache of 4.8 million confidential records examined by ICIJ and 23 media partners exposes how the London outpost of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China courted high-risk clients to secure resources and alliances for Xi Jinping’s regime.
Some of Tether’s early customers have since been linked to financial crimes– despite the firm’s promises of extensive vetting. Also, hundreds of artifacts linked to alleged traffickers are still being housed by the Met, despite years of trying to return wrongfully obtained items. And ICIJ found fines and settlements levied against cancer drug makers for wrongdoing have failed to make a dent in company profits.
Tether is worth billions. But the privately-owned cryptocurrency firm keeps its ownership a closely guarded secret. ICIJ’s reporters took a closer look. Plus, alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan was extradited from Dubai to Ireland, and more.
Women across four continents told ICIJ how matches on a Russian billionaire’s dating sites turned out to be confected personas rather than genuine romantic prospects, leaving them heartbroken and financially ruined. Plus, an ICIJ analysis reveals the U.N. paid around $10 million last year to companies formerly linked to the Assad regime. And experts told our reporters how crypto exchange HTX is deploying techniques to soften the blow of sanctions against them aimed at weakening Russia’s war effort.
Pandora Papers documents reveal how financial service providers across borders helped a mafia-linked family hide an expansive fortune, including in real estate, investments, and gold. Also, in Canada, intelligence authorities are raising flags around the use of crypto-to-cash services, and Swedbank settles a case with New York state’s regulators over the Panama Papers.
Taiwan has charged two suspects for allegedly helping China’s cyber spies target Taiwanese officials and scholars by impersonating reporters affiliated with ICIJ. In the U.S., law enforcement has accused crypto giant Circle of snubbing requests to help scam victims, a trial in Malta over the murder of investigative journalist Daphna Caruana Galizia has begun, and more.
A new U.S. bill aimed at regulating the crypto industry could leave big gaps in safeguards against dirty money, critics say. In Cyprus, the anti-corruption watchdog has referred the former president to prosecutors over corruption allegations. And researchers say lower dosages of anti-cancer drugs could save the world billions of dollars a year.
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a Trump administration adviser on intelligence issues who recently stepped down from two senior national security positions, previously helped her father secure at least $12 million from a Kremlin-linked investment bank, leaked documents show. Plus, records reveal asset manager Fidelity moved millions for a company owned by Jeffrey Epstein just weeks before his 2019 arrest, and more.
As Canada and several U.S. states try to ban bitcoin ATMs, the major crypto players that keep them running have avoided scrutiny. Also, Bitcoin Depot, formerly the largest operator of these ATMs, filed for bankruptcy last week; an alleged crypto schemer featured in The Coin Laundry has been extradited to the U.S.; and more.
For the Cancer Calculus, an ICIJ reporter traveled to Guatemala, where her reporting on the bestselling drug Keytruda took her into crowded cancer wards and living rooms. Plus, Tunisia’s government threatens to shutter ICIJ’s media partner, and a gun shop owner in the U.S. faces terrorism-related charges for selling guns bound for cartels in Mexico.