Dec 04, 2025
After 13 years of searching, a Syrian man learns his brother’s fate
A trove of leaked records provides new evidence of thousands of Assad regime killings — and a chance for closure for families.
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Dec 04, 2025
Assad’s archive of death
Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.
Dec 04, 2025
United Nations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by Assad intelligence services, documents show
For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates.
Dec 04, 2025
WATCH: Damascus Dossier exposes the Assad regime’s killing machine
Journalists from around the world have joined forces to uncover harrowing new details about one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st century: the regime of former Syrian president Bashar Assad.
Dec 04, 2025
About the Damascus Dossier investigation
An exposé into Assad’s vast system for the detention, torture and murder of Syrian citizens — and the international forces that financed his regime.
Dec 04, 2025
Frequently asked questions about the Damascus Dossier investigation
Is the Damascus Dossier based on leaked documents? What are ICIJ’s most significant findings? These questions and more, answered.
Dec 01, 2025
Cryptocurrency giant Tether is wildly profitable. Can it do more to stop financial crime?
At least $1.4 billion of its tokens passed through a crypto wallet linked to scams, hacks, and human trafficking.
Nov 28, 2025
Swiss lawyer from Panama Papers firm to face court on tax evasion charges
Christoph Zollinger was once one of Mossack Fonseca’s most senior employees. Now, he’s due to face trial in Germany.
Nov 26, 2025
Undercover crypto transactions, shady multimillion-dollar schemes, and more Coin Laundry stories from ICIJ’s partners
To investigate the global crypto industry, ICIJ’s media partners stepped inside a shadow economy awash with dirty money.
Nov 20, 2025
Businessman targets Eswatini journalists with $9.9M lawsuit
Farmers Bank, which featured in ICIJ’s Swazi Secrets investigation, and its founder are seeking damages from an independent media outlet that reported on the troubled banking venture.
Nov 20, 2025
How ICIJ traced hundreds of millions from Huione Group to major crypto exchanges
ICIJ's trailblazing blockchain analysis has uncovered how cryptocurrency giants Binance and OKX are key conduits of illicit transactions.
Nov 20, 2025
Hunt for missing millions unmasks one crypto exchange hidden inside another
Kyrrex exploited technology and shell companies while serving suspected fraudsters and pro-Russian military activists, even as its owners claimed the exchange followed anti-money laundering rules.
Nov 17, 2025
Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists traced tens of thousands of transactions and found major crypto trading platforms awash with dirty money.
Nov 17, 2025
From Dubai to Toronto, inside the crypto-to-cash storefronts fueling money laundering’s new frontier
These shadowy operations have made it easier than ever to move dirty money around the world. One man is on a mission to expose them.
Nov 17, 2025
The Russian crypto guru’s Hollywood gambit
How the alleged mastermind of a multimillion-dollar crypto scam teamed up with a globe-trotting influencer and a disgraced Oscar winner as he pushed his latest dubious project.
Nov 17, 2025
WATCH: How crypto companies have empowered a shadow economy
As governments grapple with the burgeoning crypto industry, this new investigation from ICIJ reveals how cryptocurrency companies have profited from a new shadow economy that's awash with crime.
Nov 17, 2025
From trading bans to total embrace, a global guide to crypto regulation
Across jurisdictions, governments are struggling to rein in a volatile industry worth more than $3 trillion, leading to patchy oversight.
Nov 17, 2025
WATCH: Cryptocurrency exchanges, explained
Are cryptocurrency exchanges the banks of the digital world? While there are some similarities, there are also important differences.
Nov 17, 2025
About The Coin Laundry investigation
The investigation reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.
Nov 17, 2025
Frequently asked questions about The Coin Laundry investigation
What’s a blockchain? Is The Coin Laundry based on leaked documents? Are crypto transactions anonymous? These questions and more, answered.
Nov 14, 2025
European Parliament pledges to tackle transnational repression against human rights defenders
A parliamentary report identified China and other authoritarian regimes as harassing and attacking dissidents abroad, echoing findings from ICIJ’s China Targets.
Nov 12, 2025
‘Censorship disguised as law’: Investigative journalists in Peru push back against government crackdown
ICIJ media partners are spearheading an attempt to overturn a law that could curtail crucial foreign funding.
Nov 06, 2025
AR-15 ammunition at a crime scene? Good odds this US Army plant made it.
Popular AR-15 ammunition made at an Army-owned facility was far more likely than any other to turn up in a government database tracking evidence from gun crimes, new data shows.
Oct 28, 2025
Dartmouth researchers use ICIJ database to show how the ultrawealthy exploit the offshore world
ICIJ spoke to author Herbert Chang about the study, which found that elites in both democratic and authoritarian countries are well-versed in financial secrecy tactics.
Oct 23, 2025
Russia secretly acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet
Russian Secrets, a new cross-border investigation, reveals the shadowy procurement network behind Russia’s surveillance program Harmony.
Oct 15, 2025
New UN report highlights China’s alleged targeting of human rights activists
The report, which recounts recent reprisals from two dozen countries, underscores ICIJ’s reporting on how Beijing abuses international institutions in its campaign to silence critics abroad.
Oct 11, 2025
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals
Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.
Oct 09, 2025
ICIJ members and partners honored with top journalism prize
The winners of the prestigious Cabot Prize acknowledged the important role that collaboration has played in developing investigative journalism across the Americas.
Oct 02, 2025
Purported dissident who monitored Chinese activists in Germany convicted of espionage
Jian Guo, a naturalized German citizen, featured in ICIJ’s China Targets investigation that revealed how Beijing uses civilians to spy on regime critics around the world.
Sep 26, 2025
Journalists in Peru seek protection from justice system amid rising threats, harassment by officials
A verbal threat by Lima’s mayor against veteran reporter and ICIJ member Gustavo Gorriti rocked the journalism community.
Sep 26, 2025
Syrian authorities arrest and briefly detain prominent activist as country’s president makes UN debut
Amer Matar, the Syria Prisons Museum co-director and a former political prisoner whose testimony helped secure the first international war crimes conviction against a Syrian official, was held after attempting to leave the country.
Sep 25, 2025
Cryptocurrency exchange Garantex lives on despite sanctions, new report unveils
The ostensibly shuttered exchange continues to operate through Telegram-based services that facilitate crossborder payments, according to Transparency International Russia (in exile).
Sep 19, 2025
Solitary confinement in ICE detention spiked during early months of the Trump administration, report finds
Six years after ICIJ’s Solitary Voices investigation, Physicians for Human Rights found over 10,000 people were placed in solitary confinement over a 14-month period.
Sep 17, 2025
FinCEN plans to delete data on U.S. companies from beneficial ownership database
Five years after ICIJ published the FinCEN Files, the Trump administration has walked back significant anti-money laundering rules.
Sep 12, 2025
Chelsea FC faces over six dozen charges for improper conduct under Abramovich’s ownership
The Football Association announced it is investigating payments routed through offshore companies that were uncovered as part of ICIJ’s Cyprus Confidential investigation.
Sep 10, 2025
New TV series highlights ICIJ reporting on disgraced Legion of Christ priest
Documents from the Paradise and Pandora Papers leaks showed the "full extent" of the hidden financial schemes set up by Marcial Maciel, a priest found to have molested at least 60 children.
Sep 02, 2025
Watchdog report finds overwhelming majority of IRS employees fired by DOGE for performance had no documented issues
A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration notes that the termination letters were written for the agency by the OPM and its cuts failed to follow internal IRS procedures.
Aug 21, 2025
Canada to announce new foreign interference watchdog to fight transnational repression
Just months after ICIJ’s China Targets investigation, the country has confirmed that countering foreign influence is an “utmost priority” for the government.
Aug 12, 2025
‘Predator’ spyware firm Intellexa resurgent after US sanctions
From spyware to skincare, companies linked to senior Intellexa figures are back online after a sanctions-induced slowdown.
Aug 08, 2025
New US bill aims to clamp down on money laundering through art holdings
The proposed Art Market Integrity Act would subject art brokers to the same BSA reporting requirements as antiquities dealers, banks and other financial institutions.
Aug 07, 2025
Datashare redesign makes research tool more powerful, more accessible for all
Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.
Aug 01, 2025
Parliamentary committee labels China ‘flagrant’ perpetrator of transnational repression on UK soil
A new report details how China and other authoritarian regimes are increasingly targeting critics who sought refuge in the country.
Jul 31, 2025
‘Justice was not served’: Human trafficker identified in ICIJ’s Trafficking Inc. sentenced in Nigeria
A survivor who testified in the case slammed the sentence — a choice between prison or paying a fine — which Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency intends to appeal.
Jul 29, 2025
Hidden details of Putin’s private life show his ‘real worldview,’ new book claims
A new book by reporters from Russian ICIJ media partner Proekt goes where none has gone before: Putin’s personal life and his inner circle.
Jul 28, 2025
Portugal launches probe into construction giant’s dealings with Equatorial Guinea’s vice president
The president’s son, known as Teodorin, has repeatedly caught the attention of international authorities, including in France where a messy legal battle is underway after French authorities seized his luxury Parisian apartment block.
Jul 23, 2025
‘Power is exercised arbitrarily’: Lessons from a reporter’s arrest in Equatorial Guinea
An ICIJ reporter tried to capture the "opulence and neglect" inside a tiny African state that had squandered its oil riches — and experienced the dangers of reporting in a country with no free press.
Jul 18, 2025
Landmark cryptocurrency legislation passes US House, to be signed into law by President Trump
Congress advances a series of crypto bills aimed at creating regulatory frameworks while critics warn of financial risks, citing gaps in provisions to combat cross-border dirty money flows.
Jul 14, 2025
Cyprus greenlights sanctions unit following ICIJ investigation into financial services sector
The new unit could help the Mediterranean island shake its reputation as a “weak link” in the European Union’s financial system.
Jul 11, 2025
Former Real Madrid manager mentioned in Pandora Papers receives suspended jail term in tax fraud case
Spanish courts hit Carlo Ancelotti, now head coach of Brazil, with a one-year suspended prison term and a fine.
Jul 09, 2025
‘Where would I find this amount of money?’: Private hospital patients in Kenya grapple with crushing debt
More than a decade after the World Bank promised to make health care more affordable, high costs for lifesaving treatments impoverish families in East Africa.
Jul 09, 2025
Venture capital firm hit with $216 million penalty for ‘egregious’ violations of US sanctions against Russian billionaire
The Office of Foreign Assets Control said the firm managed a $20 million investment for Suleiman Kerimov, a member of Putin’s inner circle, after he was sanctioned in 2018.
Jul 08, 2025
The World Bank set out to transform health care for the poor in Africa. It drove patients deeper into poverty.
A surge in private equity funding for hospitals left a trail of crushing debts, patient detentions and broken promises.
Jun 25, 2025
At least 40 journalists have fled El Salvador, fearing imprisonment
The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.
Jun 23, 2025
China uses dissidents-turned-spies to infiltrate overseas activist groups, as authorities flounder
Last week in Canada, world leaders jointly condemned transnational repression as a threat to sovereignty. But at home, many are unprepared to deal with China’s far-reaching intimidation of its dissident diaspora, ICIJ’s China Targets investigation has found.
Jun 19, 2025
Inside China Targets: The data footprints of China’s transnational repression
How ICIJ’s data-driven methodology underpins our investigation that exposed China’s global repression campaign.
Jun 16, 2025
Poor coordination, information gaps hamstring EU efforts to combat China’s repression of overseas dissidents
In the wake of ICIJ’s China Targets investigation, European officials said governments should step up measures to stop state-sponsored harassment of activists and minorities living in the EU.
Jun 13, 2025
New report details Beijing’s targeting of protestors abroad
ARTICLE 19, a freedom of expression advocacy organization, documented heightened transnational repression during state visits, echoing the findings of ICIJ’s China Targets investigation.
Jun 10, 2025
After outpacing a European naval mission, cargo ship remains stranded in Libya
Less than a year after it was abandoned off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, the Med Sea Eagle delivered military equipment to a Libyan strongman, leaked documents reveal.
Jun 10, 2025
ICIJ reporter wins Livingston Award recognizing exceptional reporting by young journalists
Judges praised the “tenacity and sensitivity” of Nicole Sadek’s investigation into a mysterious health crisis that upended life in a Kazakh village after the arrival of Big Oil.
Jun 10, 2025
Cyprus unable to claw back $15M in unpaid taxes from oligarch’s superyacht charter company
Tax officials said it was “not possible” to recover the debt from an alleged tax-dodging scheme involving billionaire Roman Abramovich's luxury superyachts because the company was shuttered a year ago.