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Oct 29, 2025

Russia secretly acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet

Russia is using sensitive high-tech equipment it secretly acquired from European, U.S. and Asian companies to protect its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic, according to Russian Secrets, a new cross-border investigation from ICIJ’s partners that exposes how the Kremlin’s procurement program remained hidden for years. Also, a recent U.N. report documents rising transnational repression inside the organization, researchers at Dartmouth used ICIJ’s data to study the ultrawealthy, and more.

Oct 16, 2025

Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals

Despite publicly criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza, Arab military officials came together for meetings and trainings with Israel officials facilitated by U.S. Central Command on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels. Also, Germany convicted a naturalized citizen who monitored Chinese activists of espionage, ICIJ journalists swept Columbia Journalism School’s prestigious Cabot prize, and more.

Oct 01, 2025

Solitary confinement in ICE detention spikes during first months of Trump administration

A new report reveals how solitary confinement in U.S. immigration detention has spiked under the first few months of the second Trump administration, six years after ICIJ’s Solitary Voices project exposed the misuse and overuse of the practice. Also, journalists in Peru plead for more protection from the justice system, sanctioned crypto exchange Garantax continues to thrive in the shadows, and Syria detains a prominent activist.

Sep 17, 2025

FinCEN plans to delete data on U.S. companies from beneficial ownership database

On the fifth anniversary of ICIJ’s FinCEN Files, journalists and advocates look back at the investigation and its impact — part of which may be undermined by new U.S. Treasury rules that roll back key transparency reforms. Also, Chelsea F.C. faces charges for payments under Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, and a new TV show highlights ICIJ’s reporting.

Sep 03, 2025

Watchdog finds less than 1% of IRS workers fired during DOGE purge had documented performance issues

The vast majority of more than 7,000 probationary workers fired from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service this year on performance grounds weren't underachievers, according to a new internal watchdog report. Plus, Canada will appoint its first foreign interference commissioner as it seeks to fight transnational repression.

Aug 20, 2025

‘Predator’ spyware firm Intellexa resurgent after US sanctions

Despite U.S. sanctions, Intellexa's notorious smartphone spyware Predator is “still active” in more than a dozen countries, including many with poor human rights records, researchers warn. Plus, a group of U.S. senators hopes to stem dirty money flows through the art market by bolstering oversight of art brokers.

Aug 07, 2025

Hidden details of Putin’s private life show his ‘real worldview,’ new book claims

A St. Petersburg strip bar. A borrowed pied-à-terre for sexual tristes. Mob pals. A new book by two of Russia's top investigative journalists infiltrates President Vladimir Putin’s private life and inner circle. Plus, the latest impact from ICIJ's investigations.

Jul 23, 2025

‘Power is exercised arbitrarily’: Lessons from a reporter’s arrest in Equatorial Guinea

An ICIJ reporter tried to capture the "opulence and neglect" inside a tiny African state that had squandered its oil riches — and experienced the dangers of reporting in a country with no free press. Plus, U.S. transparency advocates warn a spate of crypto bills leaves the door open to dirty money.

Jul 10, 2025

The World Bank set out to transform health care for the poor in Africa. It drove patients deeper into poverty.

When the International Finance Corp. first began its investment push in East Africa, it predicted that the money flowing into private hospitals would make health care cheaper and more accessible — especially for the poor. Instead, it left a trail of crushing debts, hospital detentions and broken promises.

Jun 25, 2025

China uses dissidents-turned-spies to infiltrate overseas activist groups

Despite condemning transnational repression, world leaders have been slow to deal with China’s attacks on dissidents abroad, including some allegedly coerced into spying for the Chinese government, ICIJ’s China Targets found. Plus, how data bolstered the investigation, and more.

Jun 12, 2025

After outpacing a European naval mission, cargo ship remains stranded in Libya

Less than a year after it was abandoned off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, the Med Sea Eagle delivered military equipment to a Libyan strongman, leaked documents reveal. Plus, Cypriot tax authorities say it’s “not possible” to recover the debt from an alleged tax-dodging scheme involving billionaire Roman Abramovich's luxury superyachts.

May 28, 2025

How a Pentagon contractor built a global empire — and a massive tax evasion scheme

Douglas Edelman rose from owning a bar in Kyrgyzstan to winning $7 billion in defense contracts, only to plead guilty to hiding his fortune from U.S. tax authorities. Plus, leaked Chinese government records reveal Beijing targeted Uyghur reporter Shohret Hoshur as part of a yearslong push to silence Radio Free Asia, and more.

May 14, 2025

As Equatorial Guinea burned through oil riches, millions were funneled to a company owned by its ‘playboy prince’

Leaked documents reveal the Obiang regime awarded a Portuguese construction giant with ties to the vice president $1 billion in contracts as it splurged on a Paris-inspired capital, an empty airport and other long-forgotten infrastructure projects. Plus, Danish lawmakers call for a probe into Beijing’s repression campaign against dissidents living in Denmark.

Apr 30, 2025

How one of the world’s richest men, foreign police and an army of puppet organizations became pawns in China’s global repression campaign

ICIJ’s latest investigation, China Targets, reveals how Beijing enlisted billionaire Jack Ma and abused Interpol’s red notices to pursue a target abroad — and turned the U.N. in Geneva into a hostile environment for critics of President Xi Jinping. Plus, ICIJ found dozens of examples of law enforcement detaining protestors to shield the president from dissent during his overseas travels.

Apr 28, 2025

China Targets reveals the sinister tactics Beijing uses to silence critics overseas

A new investigation from ICIJ and 42 media partners uncovers the sprawling scope and terrifying tactics of Beijing’s campaign to target regime critics beyond its borders. The 10-month investigation also reveals how the United Nations has become a staging ground for China’s transnational repression under Xi Jinping’s rule.

Apr 17, 2025

Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil

Kazakhstan claims that a group of international oil companies has been taking a staggering 98% of oil revenue from the giant Kashagan oil and gas field, according to confidential filings in a $160 billion arbitration claim seen by ICIJ. Plus, a second former president in Peru has been sentenced as part of the sprawling Odebrecht corruption scandal.

Apr 02, 2025

The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows

New data obtained by ICIJ shows that the IRS unit that audits billionaires and other ultrawealthy individuals lost 38% of its employees this year as part of President Trump and Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal workforce. Also, the IFC delayed a report that showed its failure to address complaints at a rubber plantation, and a Trump executive order threatens reporters from Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America with returns to repressive regimes.

Mar 19, 2025

Russia’s ghost ships haunt Libya

The Kremlin is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send military equipment to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, leaked documents reveal. Plus, a leading boxing “fixer” claims that international crime boss Daniel Kinahan secretly struck a multimillion-dollar deal with a top global fight promoter, and more.

Feb 19, 2025

Foreign aid freeze decimates investigative news outlets internationally

Investigative news organizations worldwide are scrambling to survive and fearing a backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. Plus, the U.S. withdrawal from global tax agreements and negotiations has upended international cooperation efforts, but some tax justice advocates say it could herald positive change.

Feb 12, 2025

Kazakh billionaire reportedly in talks on making $1B payout to state

Timur Kulibayev, the billionaire son-in-law of Kazakhstan's former president, is reportedly negotiating a deal to pay about $1 billion to the state amid a government probe. Plus, a U.S. political strategist says an Uzbek businessman asked him to lobby for sanctions against a political rival.

Feb 06, 2025

UK MPs push for probe into Russian billionaire’s possible $1B tax dodge

British lawmakers have called for an investigation into Roman Abramovich’s offshore financial affairs after reporting by ICIJ's media partners revealed the oligarch may owe up to $1.24 billion in U.K. tax. Plus, a controversial $150 million World Bank project was terminated in Tanzania after allegations of forced evictions, rapes and extrajudicial killings.

Jan 29, 2025

Whistleblower accuses JPMorgan Chase of violating cash reserve rules meant to protect the financial system

JPMorgan Chase for years understated the risk it posed to the financial system, according to a whistleblower who claimed that America’s largest bank made billions of dollars by violating rules established to protect the global economy from crisis. Plus, the future of the Corporate Transparency Act, a landmark anti-corruption law, remains uncertain after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and more.

Jan 23, 2025

Notes from an ICIJ reporter on Kulibayev’s real estate trail

ICIJ’s Marcos Garcia Reyes shares takeaways from his three-day reporting trip in Spain, tracking down Kazakh oligarch Timur Kulibayev and his properties on the coast. Plus, the U.K.’s anti-corruption minister steps down, and ICIJ looks back on Luanda Leaks’ fifth anniversary.

Jan 15, 2025

US court grants IRS request to probe clients of offshore finance giant

A federal judge approved the IRS’s request to demand records about U.S. taxpayers from a Manhattan-based affiliate of the Trident Trust, one of the offshore firms at the center of ICIJ’s Pandora Papers investigation. Plus, a new platform spearheaded by an ICIJ member in Peru tracks corruption cases in Latin America and beyond.

Jan 08, 2025

Syrian spy agency targeted ICIJ’s Syrian media partner, documents show

Syria’s intelligence services launched an investigation into the Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism after it reported on Damascus’ business links with Europe, a cache of confidential memos reveals. Plus, Nigerian authorities arrested “Christy Gold,” the alleged ringleader of a criminal network that forced women into sex work in Dubai, and Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they’re still waiting for compensation for labor abuses.

Dec 18, 2024

How scrapping our itinerary in Kazakhstan helped us land the story

When one of ICIJ’s Casbian Cabals reporters traveled to Kazakhstan in search of answers to a decade-old mystery, nothing went to plan. So, she made a new one: old-school shoe-leather reporting. Plus, new data shows IRS criminal referrals hit a 40-year low in 2024, and more.

Dec 11, 2024

Chinese arms flow into the US and other countries despite the manufacturers’ alleged role in Xinjiang repression

Five years since ICIJ’s China Cables investigation, Uyghurs in exile and advocates say the ethnic minority group’s conditions haven’t improved. But, despite human rights concerns, Chinese weapons makers are finding buyers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Plus, a new Human Rights Watch report details alleged abuse of models by webcam studios across Colombia.

Dec 05, 2024

The lost village: Western oil companies enriched Kazakhstan’s power brokers — and left a community in ruins

New data released this week by database firm OpenCorporates revealed that the number of incorporations in Wyoming shot up by an unprecedented 30% in 2023, the Cowboy State bucking its way past Delaware to take top spot in the country on a registrations-per-capita measure. Plus, Caspian Cabals stories from ICIJ's partners, and the Dutch yachtmaker who built Jeff Bezos' superyacht fined for teak use.

Nov 27, 2024

The lost village: Western oil companies enriched Kazakhstan’s power brokers — and left a community in ruins

Ten years ago a mysterious health crisis ushered in the end of Berezovka. Caspian Cabals, ICIJ’s latest investigation, found the village’s former residents are still grappling with chronic illness and broken promises. Plus, the U.K. sanctions former billionaire Isabel dos Santos, and Canadian lawmakers say they were “played for suckers” by the owner of Canada’s largest pulp and paper company.

Nov 23, 2024

NEW: How Western oil companies bet on Kazakhstan — and ended up at the mercy of Vladimir Putin

Caspian Cabals reveals how Western oil companies ignored bribery risks and massive cost overruns to secure their stake in a critical Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, then delivered substantial control of it to the Kremlin.