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We catch up with Ilyas Muradi, who shared his experience of enduring solitary confinement while in immigration custody in Solitary Voices. Five reader comments cost ICIJ partner Malaysiakini $123,600 in a blow to press freedom. Plus, advocates push the Biden administration to become a global anti-corruption champion; ICIJ's network committee gets new members; and our team is presenting at NICAR21!
New reporting from our partners in Portugal, Expresso and SIC, show that Boston Consulting Group, PwC, and McKinsey — three of the world’s largest consulting firms — each made tens of millions from a project to modernize state-owned oil company Sonangol, despite red flags indicating corruption. Plus, Angola attempts to recoup more assets linked to Isabel dos Santos in our latest update on the Luanda Leaks investigation — a window to the evolving world of offshore finance.
New reporters join ICIJ! And members of our team will be presenting at upcoming conferences, including SXSW, NICAR, and MozFest. FinCEN Files is named a finalist for the Selden Ring Award. Plus, it's been six years since the Swiss Leaks investigation — what's changed, and what hasn't?
Three Norwegian lawmakers have nominated ICIJ and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice for a Nobel Peace Prize. Also, Australian authorities use Panama Papers to track down tax evaders. And Datashare, our innovative open-source research platform, breaks new ground as we roll out new features focused on improving collaboration.
ICIJ member Moussa Aksar was targeted for his FinCEN Files reporting on a military procurement scandal engulfing Niger. Plus, a corruption scandal in the British Virgin Islands threatens its future, and the Trump administration has a final word on alleged human rights abuses against Uighurs in China.
Here's what we're keeping an eye on after the U.S. passed a historic new law largely banning anonymous shell companies. Plus, we talk to international experts about what tax reforms to expect in 2021, mark one year of impact since we published Luanda Leaks and chat with CBC's Harvey Cashore in Meet the Investigators.
Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and associates are on on trial in Geneva for a mining ‘corruption pact’ and Deutsche Bank gets penalized again by U.S. authorities. Plus, big data lessons from the smallest FinCEN Files stories.
We're ringing in 2021 with news of historic anti-money laundering reforms in the U.S. and tips, tricks, tools, and inspiration for data-driven investigations.
FinCEN Files has a world of impact, a rare warning to the medical industry, and a high profile blow to billionaire Isabel dos Santos.
Advocates celebrate the end of anonymous shell companies in the U.S. Plus, new revelations on which private companies are behind the technology being used to target Uighurs in China.
While Isabel dos Santos and her advisers face multiple investigations, accountability for the offshore industry remains elusive. Meanwhile, the U.S. is poised to largely end anonymous shell companies in the country. Plus, new links to Paradise Papers, from mafia business dealings to a suspected radical in Austria.
A new FinCEN Files investigation on a crooked car dealer who's swindled hundreds, and proposals to largely end anonymous shell companies in the U.S., and tax manufacturers for the cost of cleaning up chemical pollution.
Leaked Chinese government documents published by ICIJ were part of evidence submitted to the International Criminal Court by two Uighur activist groups. Plus, how much tax dodging costs countries around the world, and hear from investigative journalists in Nigeria.
Starting with just a few words from a leaked document, Will Fitzgibbon shares how his reporting led him to rural North Carolina. Plus, FinCEN Files wins its first major global award!
A wood pulp and paper company, whose questionable environmental record featured in our original Paradise Papers investigation in 2017, has now been accused of avoiding taxes in Indonesia. Plus, the art market gets a dirty money warning from the US, and more.
Concerned that money transfers worth just a few hundred dollars are helping terrorists and fentanyl traffickers, the U.S. Treasury is pushing a new rule for banks, money transmitters and others. Plus, experts give us their view on the Goldman Sachs deferred prosecution agreement, we check in on press freedom issues, and more.
Prompted by the FinCEN Files, a powerful U.K. parliamentary committee has launched a new anti-money laundering inquiry tasked specifically with looking into the impact of our investigation. Plus, an Implant Files data victory in France, arrest warrants for Mossack and Fonseca from Germany, and more.
Failures exposed by the FinCEN Files investigation require urgent intervention, regulators, experts and politicians have told us. Here's how they'd start, including by jailing some bankers. Also, UK's Companies House considers reforms of its own, and British lawmakers call for sanctions against China over the treatment of Uighurs.
The FinCEN Files expose how money transmitters like Western Union and MoneyGram play a key role in laundering cash from around the globe. Also, European lawmakers call for more financial system reform, the British Virgin Islands commit to a public register of company ownership and breast implants get a new warning label.
One of the top banking regulators in the U.S. is calling for reform in the wake of the FinCEN Files, while one of Europe's leaders has defended his record on money laundering reform. Plus more stories from our partners, updates on Luanda Leaks, and a film festival preview.
We continue to follow up our partners stories from the FinCEN Files. But we also have the lateste Panama Papers developments in the U.S. and Malta. There is a message from a UN panel to try harder, while U.S. lawmakers take steps to stop imports of goods made by Uighurs.
Our latest cross-border investigation exposes how the world's biggest banks, tasked with stopping suspicious activity, actually profit hugely from it.
Tired of waiting for national health regulators to act, U.S. breast implant safety advocates have taken their fight to state lawmakers. Zimbabwe’s tax authority, Zimra, believes one of Switzerland’s most profitable companies tried to “run away from its tax obligations.” We speak with veteran investigative journalist Joop Bouma, who calls himself “curious by character,” as he retires after more than 45 years in the business.
Bayer will pay $1.6 billion to settle tens of thousands of claims related to its birth control device Essure. Swiss authorities have frozen nearly $900 million belonging to Angolan business tycoon Carlos Manuel de São Vicente, on suspicions of money laundering. Isabel dos Santos’ sprawling business empire has shrunk again with the Angolan billionaire losing joint control of NOS.
We speak with U.S. immigration detainees who report being put in solitary confinement after showing symptoms of the coronavirus. The elite are still using the Isle of Man as a place to stopover for a few hours – and save millions on their tax bills. And #MeetTheInvestigators showcases Aidila Razak and her reporting in Malaysia.
Rui Pinto, the whistleblower behind Luanda Leaks, has been released from custody in Portugal while he awaits trial. His lawyer likens him to Edward Snowden of international corruption. Indian authorities have told an alleged tax dodger to prove where her wealth came from. And, we have an update on our latest collaborative journalism tool.
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