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As Canada and several U.S. states try to ban bitcoin ATMs, the major crypto players that keep them running have avoided scrutiny. Also, Bitcoin Depot, formerly the largest operator of these ATMs, filed for bankruptcy last week; an alleged crypto schemer featured in The Coin Laundry has been extradited to the U.S.; and more.
For the Cancer Calculus, an ICIJ reporter traveled to Guatemala, where her reporting on the bestselling drug Keytruda took her into crowded cancer wards and living rooms. Plus, Tunisia’s government threatens to shutter ICIJ’s media partner, and a gun shop owner in the U.S. faces terrorism-related charges for selling guns bound for cartels in Mexico.
Following last year’s China Targets exposé, ICIJ and its network became victims of cyber attacks attributed to China-sponsored contractors. Plus, how lawmakers around the world responded to the Cancer Calculus investigation, and more.
Keytruda has been hailed as a game changer in cancer treatment, but much of the world can’t afford it. Now, a yearlong ICIJ investigation sheds new light on how pharmaceutical giant Merck has fended off competitors to keep the price of Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide.
It’s been a decade since ICIJ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation sent a shock through the offshore world. ICIJ looks back with an oral history of the investigation, and updates on the ongoing impact from the groundbreaking collaboration.
Questions and frustrations have begun to swirl around the Justice Department’s handling of a historic cache of $15 billion in seized crypto linked to the Cambodia-based Prince Group. Also, Canada’s financial regulator removed the registries of dozens of crypto firms, the Premier League fined Chelsea FC millions for secret payments under Abramovich, and more.
Social card: The IRS referred the lowest number of cases of possible tax evasion by ultrawealthy people or large businesses to criminal investigators since fiscal year 2019 under Trump’s first year back in office. Also, U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill to counter the sale of high-caliber ammunition to civilians after an ICIJ/NYT investigation found ammunition made at a U.S. army plant was being trafficked to Mexican cartels.
The IRS has slashed the number of staff overseeing anti-money laundering practices at crypto exchanges to the lowest level in nearly a decade, according to new data obtained by ICIJ. Plus, four years into the Ukraine war, a new report shows Hong Kong is now a backdoor supplier of European tech to Russia’s war machine.
Drug syndicates have used .50-caliber ammunition from a plant owned by the U.S. Army in attacks on Mexican civilians and police, a new ICIJ investigation reveals. Also, ICIJ’s partners uncover how Chinese firms took control of a strategic rare-earth mineral operation in Malawi, a former Nigerian oil minister stands trial on bribery charges in the U.K., and more.
Austrian crypto exchange Bitpanda has promoted itself as “secure, regulated and real.” But new reporting by ICIJ media partners raises questions about its handling of cybersecurity risks. Plus, Russia stripped ICIJ member Roman Anin of his citizenship, Portuguese authorities are investigating a movie producer with ties to an alleged crypto scammer, and more.
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.
Journalists in 20 countries 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. The investigation draws on a cache of classified Syrian intelligence records obtained by German broadcaster NDR and shared with ICIJ.
How the cryptocurrency exchange 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. Plus, an inside look at ICIJ’s data methodology for The Coin Laundry investigation, and more.
A new investigation by ICIJ and 37 media partners exposes how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime. Over 10 months, reporters investigated tens of thousands of transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and cyber thieves flowing to the crypto industry’s biggest trading platforms.
Popular ammunition made at an Army-owned facility was far more likely than any other to turn up in a government database, new data on AR-15-related gun crimes shows. Also, Peruvian investigative outlets are countering a new law that could curtail funding for NGOs and cripple the press, and keep an eye out for a new investigation from ICIJ coming soon.