INTERACTIVE
Explore The Stories
See how offshore companies and accounts have been used to strip cash out of West Africa.
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.
In this investigation
INSIDE ICIJ
Behind the scenes of the largest-ever West African journalism collaboration
A new documentary reveals the challenges and triumphs of the West Africa Leaks investigation.
By ICIJ | July 10, 2018
INSIDE ICIJ
Introducing West Africa Leaks
ICIJ's African partnership coordinator talks about our unprecedented investigation in the region and how it came about.
By Will Fitzgibbon | May 22, 2018
IMPACT
Probed, sacked and ignored: how countries reacted to West Africa Leaks
MEET THE INVESTIGATORS
‘Doubt, doubt, doubt’: Maxime Domegni on the key to being a successful investigative reporter
MULTINATIONALS
One Company’s Tax ‘Heaven’ Is Senegal’s Tax ‘Hell’
COLLABORATION
Why We Decided To Dig Into West Africa’s Offshore Links
BEHIND THE SCENES
‘We are the enemies of our leaders’: Meet the journalists behind West Africa Leaks
QUASI-DIPLOMACY .
Wanted: Honorary Consuls For ‘Cash-Strapped’ African Nations
WEST AFRICA LEAKS
How Officials, Businesses and Traffickers Hide Billions from Cash-Starved Governments Offshore
Key findings
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Leaked records uncover the secretive companies and bank accounts of some of West Africa’s most powerful politicians and corporate moguls, including a Mali presidential candidate, the mayor of Cote d’Ivoire’s richest city and a member of the Togolese ruling dynasty inner circle
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Files also reveal details behind a Seychelles company of a longtime friend of Nobel Prize-winning Liberian ex-president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf who helped lobby on behalf of a mining company
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Honorary consuls, including several representing European countries, used offshore companies and accounts to avoid taxes and keep money out of sight from authorities in West Africa
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A Canadian multinational used a letterbox company as a conduit and avoided paying millions of dollars in tax to Senegal, one of the world’s 25 poorest countries
