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Despite complaints about customers and employees getting scammed, retail chain Circle K extended its contract with Bitcoin Depot to host crypto ATMs in its convenience stores. Also, analysis firm Chainalysis says a Binance report claiming illicit activity plummeted on the exchange failed to factor in funds stolen through hacks and ransomware; an inside look at the data work behind Damascus Dossier; and more.
ICIJ member Pavla Holcová shares behind-the-scenes details about reporting one of the most explosive Pandora Papers investigations. Plus, we interview a whistleblower whose story is part of the lineup at this week's Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival. Use ICIJ's discount code to buy tickets!
The family of billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to turn over 33 ancient statues — including some officials say were looted from sacred sites — to Cambodia. Plus, the Internal Revenue Service is hunting for the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs stashed in secretive South Dakota trusts.
The 2017 assassination of the Maltese anti-corruption journalist rocked the island country, and led to government’s fall. Plus, global tax reform gains ground at the UN. Investigative journalists and ICIJ are recognized for combating corruption at the 2022 Allard Prize ceremony.
A former top lobbyist for Uber, Mark MacGann slammed his former employer for the aggressive business practices uncovered in the ICIJ-led investigation. Plus, Switzerland moves to reform corporate secrecy and environmental watchdogs allege hidden corporate links to a deforester.
Trafficking Inc. is a global reporting collaboration on the people, companies and business practices that draw profit from cross-border labor and sex trafficking. Our first story reveals how employment abuses at U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf entrap legions of migrant workers, brought to you by ICIJ, The Washington Post, NBC, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.
Trafficking Inc. reporting by ICIJ partners zero in on defense contractors behind abusive employment practices at U.S. military bases. Plus, Canada aims to curb corporate secrecy and Pandora Papers scoops up more awards.
ICIJ's newest faces reflect on our news organization’s first face-to-face gathering in Tunisia. Plus, Australia's proposal to clamp down on corporate profit shifting is heralded as a global model.
ICIJ worked with ProPublica and 59 media partners to identify at least 500 current and former honorary consuls who have been accused of crimes or embroiled in controversy — exposing the global scale of misuse and exploitation by rogue honorary consuls.
An ICIJ investigation uncovers a shadowy operation meant to help crime boss Christopher Kinahan Sr. move drugs, money, and people more easily around Africa and the Middle East. Plus, business associates of a Russian oligarch identified in the Pandora Papers are sanctioned.
Three years after the explosive Luanda Leaks investigation, Isabel dos Santos is a wanted woman. Plus, Shadow Diplomats highlights from around the world and ICIJ's Trafficking Inc. investigation is featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Our latest Shadow Diplomats story details Russia's faithful network of honorary consuls serving the Kremlin's political agenda around the world. Plus, Pandora Papers reveals offshore companies of key plaintiff behind a landmark transparency ruling in Europe, allegedly looted artifacts seized from a private collector and more.
In a new investigation, ICIJ examines international policing of corporate corruption. Plus, Pandora Papers sparks a French probe targeting former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Enablers Act gets blocked by US Senate and more.
Over the last 12 months, our newsroom put out more deep-dive global exposés than ever before. Plus, an anti-corruption crusader in Venezuela faces allegations of extortion; the massive cross-border data effort behind Shadow Diplomats; Trafficking Inc. wins an award and more.
Explore unique documents behind Shadow Diplomats scoops around the world, which revealed how the U.S. and the vast majority of governments look the other way despite the rising threat of rogue honorary consuls. Plus, ICIJ is hiring!
Jordan, Latvia and Israel shake up diplomatic corps after Shadow Diplomats revelations. And European lawmakers urge the approval of anti-tax dodging regulations proposed in the wake of Pandora Papers.
Luanda Leaks and Uber Files continue to yield repercussions across borders. Plus, updates from Pandora Papers reporting, and ICIJ is hiring a digital producer/editor!
Two former leaders from Latin America who featured prominently in the Pandora Papers have been targeted by U.S. authorities for their roles in facilitating corruption. Plus, we go behind the scenes of ICIJ's global investigation into the shadowy diplomatic world of honorary consuls.
When two Haitian millionaires were accused by Canada of corruption and enabling murderous gangs to run rampant across the long-suffering island nation, reporter Will Fitzgibbon decided to dig a little deeper. He found links to two ICIJ investigations.
The U.S. Treasury's attempts to set up a company ownership database has hit another snag, a whistleblower has won a key case in Europe, and more.
Myanmar’s teak is sometimes called the “King of Woods.” It's also a vital revenue source for Myanmar's brutal military regime. Our latest investigation, Deforestation Inc., has uncovered how the trade in this valuable timber continues, despite sanctions and bans put in place by governments around the world attempting to economically throttle the junta. Also, impact from the Ericsson List and Panama Papers investigations, and more.
While sanctions against individuals have been a go-to punitive tool since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there might be another, more efficient way to throttle Russian oligarchs’ access to their wealth, according to a new research paper that used ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks Database to analyze how these billionaires were moving their money. Plus, more from Deforestation Inc. and a medical device-related arrest.
The latest story in our Hidden Treasures series has uncovered more than 1,000 artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog linked to alleged traffickers and looters. Also, new details emerge about Ericsson withholding evidence from the Justice Department, and more.
Weeks after ICIJ's Deforestation Inc. investigation exposed concerning gaps in environmental auditing and certification systems, the European Commission has published a proposed new rule aimed at holding companies accountable for their green claims.
A new Trafficking Inc. investigation exposes one of the most common sites of sex-trafficking crimes in the United States as a novel legal strategy seeks to hold hotel corporations liable. Plus, a U.S. regulator calls out a spike in flawed audits, but experts warn its efforts to force reform are falling short.
The head of the United Nations has called for a shake-up of global tax rules — and more power to set them — in a new draft report criticizing the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Meanwhile, advocates warn some of the world’s wealthiest countries, including OECD members, are responsible for billions in corporate tax losses each year.
Australia’s top museum will hand back three ancient statues to Cambodia due to links to accused art trafficker Douglas Latchford. The Indian Express reveals Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers, outsourced its offshore business just weeks after ICIJ’s 2016 investigation.
New York is on the cusp of passing a new state law, dubbed the LLC Transparency Act, which lawmakers say will shine a light on the shadow economy bad actors have exploited for decades. Plus, the assassination of a political candidate in Ecuador has the country on edge.
The incoming director of the federal financial crimes unit faces an uphill battle to deliver reforms to thwart illicit money flows. Plus a French actress faces tax fraud charges, and we go behind the scenes of ICIJ’s investigation into human trafficking.
A person claiming to be the whistleblower behind the Panama Papers is attempting to sue German authorities anonymously in a complex legal dispute over an alleged deal to purchase the leaked dataset, according to a U.S. lawsuit. Plus, the verdict in the trial of Luanda Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto has been delayed due to an upcoming visit to Portugal by the Pope, and more.