2020
FinCEN Files
An ICIJ investigation reveals the role of global banks in industrial-scale money laundering — and the bloodshed and suffering that flow in its wake.
Luanda Leaks
How two decades of corrupt deals made Isabel dos Santos Africa’s wealthiest woman and left oil- and diamond-rich Angola one of the world's poorest countries.
2019
China Cables
China Cables is an investigation into the surveillance and mass internment without charge or trial of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
Mauritius Leaks
Multinational companies use the tiny tax haven Mauritius to avoid paying taxes to countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
Bribery Division
A new investigation uses leaked files from inside a special unit of Brazilian firm Odebrecht to expose new details of prominent figures and massive public works projects embroiled in Latin America's biggest cash-for-contracts scandal.
Solitary Voices
U.S. immigration authorities have been misusing and overusing solitary confinement in detention centers housing tens of thousands of immigrants from around the world, a new five-month investigation reveals.
2018
Implant Files
Health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants, the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry reveals.
West Africa Leaks
In the region's largest-ever journalism collaboration, reporters from 11 countries expose the financial secrets of some of West Africa's most powerful politicians, moguls and corporations.
2017
Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
A major global collaboration reveals secrets from one of the world’s most prestigious offshore law firms, a specialized trust company and 19 company registries in secrecy jurisdictions.
2016
The Panama Papers: Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
2015
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Former top EU official among high profile names in a leak that reveals 175,000 offshore companies registered in the Bahamas.
Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor
The World Bank regularly failed to follow its own rules for protecting millions of people displaced by development.
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining’s Damaging Push Into Africa
Australia is a giant in African mining, but its vast, sometimes deadly footprint has never been examined – until now.
Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
How one of the world's largest banks helped shelter millions in accounts linked to arms dealers, dictators and tax evaders
2014
Luxembourg Leaks: Global Companies’ Secrets Exposed
New files obtained by ICIJ disclose secret tax structures sought by “Big 4” accounting giants for global brand name companies.
中国离岸金融解密 China Leaks
Leaked records reveal offshore holdings of China’s elite.
2012
U.S. Aid in Latin America
Anti-drug money is funneled through corrupt military, paramilitary and intelligence organizations and violates human rights.
Skin and Bone
Recycling dead humans into medical implants is a lucrative trade, rousing concerns about how tissues are obtained.
Plunder in the Pacific
As other fisheries are pushed to their limits, giant trawlers move southward toward Antarctica to catch what is left.
The Illicit Trade of Coltan
Your smart phone contains a ‘conflict mineral’, likely from parts of Africa or South America controlled by criminal organizations.
Dangers in the Dust
Lobby groups have spent nearly $100 million to promote asbestos, a carcinogen which may cause up to 10 million deaths by 2030 - largely in the developing world.
Island of the Widows
Thousands of men working in Central American sugarcane fields are dying of chronic kidney disease, yet governments and the sugar industry have done little in response.
2011
The Black Market in Bluefin
Bluefin's demise directly linked to widespread fraud and negligence from fishing fleets and ministry offices to the world’s largest buyers in Japan.
Spain’s $8 Billion Fish
Spain's fishing industry racked up an extensive history of flouting rules and breaking laws.
Interpol’s Red Flag
Nations aligned with Interpol have used the group as a tool against political opponents and refugees.
Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl
An investigation of the roles of 27 men linked to the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2010
Smoke Screen
Down-and-out in developed nations, Big Tobacco is refocusing its lobbying on emerging markets.
2009
The Global Climate Change Lobby
Inside the battle to influence the most important environmental treaty of our time.
2008
Tobacco Underground
The world's most widely smuggled legal substance fuels organized crime and corruption, and robs governments of needed tax money.
2007
Windfalls of War
Which American companies won the biggest contracts in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan?
Collateral Damage
Post-9/11 U.S. military aid and assistance had a huge impact in nations around the world — and at home.
2006
Divine Intervention: U.S. AIDS Policy Abroad
Conservative policy hinders U.S. initiatives to fight AIDS abroad by insisting on abstinence-only programs over promoting condom use.
2003
The Water Barons
The explosive growth of private water utility companies raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource.
2002
Making a Killing
A handful of companies with connections to governments, and, sometimes organizations, have profited from war commerce.
2000
Big Tobacco Smuggling
Down-and-out in developed nations, Big Tobacco is refocusing its lobbying on emerging markets.
