ICIJ’s media partners uncovered strategic deals and moves the Chinese bank made around the world to further the political priorities of the party-state.
Reddy and local guide Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”) went missing Sept. 19 in Djibouti City.
Private equity investor Konstantin Sokolov was also appointed to run a government enterprise fund.
ICIJ lost contact with our colleague Micah Reddy, ICIJ's Africa coordinator, and local journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael ("Kooki Mahmoud"), in Djibouti City on Saturday, Sept. 19.
The convicted fraudster says his new app would enable women to find love safely. The lead trade group for online dating disagrees.
The Chinese tech giant is on trial in New York for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and stealing trade secrets as it built its global telecommunications empire.
ICIJ and its media partners found that Chinese bank ICBC served as a financing hub for infrastructure in the U.K. and Australia, prompting questions about Beijing’s influence over public projects.
Confidential records reveal how the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s London units courted high-risk clients to secure resources and alliances for Xi Jinping’s regime.
The urgent operation exposes how readily ICBC’s local branch bypassed internal checks to boost a Beijing favorite.
The Chinese banking giant turned a blind eye to alleged fraud and embezzlement within its ranks for years, according to a tranche of confidential files.
Based on a trove of 4.8 million records, China Capital reveals how ICBC used its U.K. operations to pursue explicitly political objectives for its majority shareholder, the Chinese government.
How does the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China operate? What did ICIJ uncover in millions of confidential bank records? These questions and more, answered.
A global investigation by ICIJ lays bare the hidden playbook of one of China’s most powerful banks.
ICIJ’s 2020 FinCEN Files revealed that major banks flagged suspicious payments involving one of the Venezuelan tycoon's companies, which remains at the heart of embezzlement investigations in Europe.
Yorgen Fenech was the last of seven men prosecuted for her 2017 assassination.
An ICIJ review found nearly $1.7 billion in settlements and fines over a 15 year period. But experts said many companies see the payouts as the cost of doing business.
Financial records obtained by ICIJ show that they included individuals later accused of or sanctioned for money laundering and other financial crimes.
Museum says it wants no stolen artwork and that it has initiated an expedited review of hundreds of works tied to specific dealers.
The allegations, which are at the heart of a confidential arbitration, signal an aggressive new stance by the Central Asian country toward longstanding international partners.
Kinahan was taken from Dubai to a Dublin court under armed escort and ordered to remain in prison while he awaits trial for his alleged part in running a global drug smuggling empire.
Its USDT crypto token underpins a trillion-dollar market, but cryptocurrency giant Tether won’t answer questions about its ownership.
Reporting by ICIJ and The Indian Express illustrated how Indian counterfeiters exploited the high price of the lifesaving cancer drug Keytruda and the desperation of patients seeking it.
An ICIJ analysis found that at least 11 firms received roughly $10 million in 2025 after opaque deals and seizures reshaped their ownership.
The exchange is rapidly generating new accounts in a way that can confuse authorities and compliance officials, experts told ICIJ.
Women on four continents told ICIJ that global pay-per-action dating sites owned by a Russian businessman and self-styled philosopher left them financially broke and heartbroken.
An internal report obtained says that crypto brokers are moving millions while dodging rules to guard against dirty money.
The Swedish bank and its New York subsidiary agreed to the penalty to settle final U.S. probe tied to money laundering case, officials say.
Leaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers.
The head of an internal auditor resigned after the board of the World Bank’s private investment arm rejected her office’s findings that the deal violated internal safeguard policies.
The case stems from ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation into the world's best-selling drug’s sky-high price and its global consequences.
Law enforcement in Wisconsin and New York accuse the firm of refusing to help recoup funds, even under court orders.
The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates ICIJ and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.
In a letter, Sen. Maggie Hassan cited ICIJ's Cancer Calculus investigation and expressed concerns that the pharma giant is boosting profits at the expense of patients.
Yorgen Fenech appeared in court nearly a decade after the car-bomb killing of one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists.
The crypto industry and law enforcement groups are in the midst of a lobbying showdown over the proposed Clarity Act.
Nicos Anastasiades may have misused his office to advance his and his allies’ interests, according to a sprawling probe that also names his former law firm and other officials.
Researchers found that Keytruda — the focus of ICIJ's recent Cancer Calculus investigation — accounted for nearly half of the potential annual savings.
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, who recently stepped down from two senior administration posts, was serving as a CIA officer during the dispute.
The U.S. and its Five Eyes partners warned that Chinese military intelligence services were behind “cover companies” using job platforms to pry sensitive information from foreigners.
After ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation exposed a market for falsified Keytruda, two sources confirmed Friday that Mexican authorities found vials labeled as the anti-cancer drug in the raid.
Asset manager Fidelity moved millions for company owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein just weeks before his 2019 arrest, documents reveal.
For the Cancer Calculus, ICIJ’s data team created datasets using records from patent offices and courts, and analyzed the opaque pricing of a lifesaving drug with a sky-high price tag.
As governments seek to ban the machines, bitcoin ATMs remain entwined with cryptocurrency industry's most mainstream players.
Go behind the scenes of the Cancer Calculus investigation, and hear insights about Merck's cancer drug Keytruda from ICIJ's chief reporter and a health economist.
The daughter-in-law of RFK Jr. held top posts at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of Management and Budget.
With regulators cracking down on the cash-to-cryptocurrency kiosks in a bid to stop scammers, Bitcoin Depot has said that its business model is no longer viable.
Authorities say Olena Oblamska was one of the founders of Forsage, a cryptocurrency platform allegedly used as part of a global pyramid scheme.
The shift offers companies immunity from certain regulations — and, critics say, weakens protections for scam victims.
I had read countless legal documents about the world's bestselling drug. But it took a trip to Latin America to see how scarcity shapes life and death decisions.
The move follows years of legal harassment by government agencies and a wider, escalating crackdown on the Tunisian press.
Board members at the Central American media outlet say they were not given a reason for having their tourist visas to the U.S. revoked on May 2.
It is the first such case filed since the Trump administration designated several of the criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations in 2025.
In 2025, China was the most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, a new Freedom House report found.
Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we investigated.
Over a decade after the ICIJ investigation, a German court found the Swiss lawyer guilty of enabling a tax loss of about $15 million.
In hearings around the world, politicians and experts called for inquiries into inequities surrounding Merck's anti-cancer drug Keytruda.
In a yearlong investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reporters from more than 37 countries found the cancer drug’s high price impacts patients and health systems differently.
Kinahan cartel wars with rivals have been linked to at least 20 murders across four European countries, according to Europol.
Despite the president’s plan to lower prescription medicine costs, the price of many of the most expensive drugs — including several immunotherapy treatments — have continued to rise.
The pharmaceutical giant has built a fortress of patents, traded in secrecy and relentlessly lobbied to guard its revenue kingpin Keytruda.