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Five years after the Panama Papers were first published, authorities are still clawing back lost tax dollars and prosecuting wrongdoers exposed by the global investigation.
ICIJ’s massive cross-border investigation remains an influence — and a catchphrase — in politics, business, academia and pop culture, half a decade on.
On the fifth anniversary of the Panama Papers’ launch, experts say there’s been progress in the fight against dirty money — but much more is needed.
The forum of wealthy nations urges countries to target and disrupt ‘enablers’ of tax evasion, money laundering and other illicit finance.
Seeking to seize the momentum of Joe Biden's first days in office, a global anti-corruption activist group are pushing to have the U.S. expand anti-money-laundering reforms.
Boston Consulting Group, PwC, and McKinsey made tens of millions from a project to modernize state-owned oil company Sonangol, despite red flags indicating corruption.
As scrutiny by scientists and consumers grows on chemicals polluting our soil, water and air, experts are asking: why shouldn’t manufacturers bear the costs of managing it to prevent damage to health and the environment?
Despite a long record of fraud, a New Jersey con man was able to swindle hundreds of victims around the world who were promised cheap used cars.
While the deal bears hallmarks of prosecutorial timidity, the indictment against two banking executives makes the case unusual, experts say.
Failures exposed by the FinCEN Files investigation require urgent intervention, regulators, experts and politicians say.
Sen. Sherrod Brown calls for criminally prosecuting executives who profit from moving money for criminals and corrupt regimes.
How companies like Western Union and MoneyGram play a hidden role in laundering cash from around the globe.
Zimbabwe's tax authorities have accused ABB, one of Switzerland’s most profitable companies, of avoiding $13.4 million in taxes, according to court filings and other documents obtained by ICIJ.
The organization has denied responsibility for violence by police and security guards against communities who protested a doomed Guatemalan dam.
The European Commission wants to create a central authority to tackle money laundering, but some EU members are rebelling against the plan.
If enacted the bill would give the Trump Administration 180 days to report Chinese officials responsible for mass internment camps and other abuses in Xinjiang
The man in charge of stopping criminals from laundering money has a scathing report of the world’s progress.
Effective treatment for the coronavirus could save millions of lives, but the risks of moving too fast with too little science could be a bigger risk.
U.S. regulators settled a major corruption case with the Italian oil company that allegedly bribed Algerian politicians through a middleman who controlled a constellation of shell companies.
U.S. immigration authorities locked detainees from African and Caribbean countries in solitary confinement cells six times as often as the population at large, a new study finds.
Four years after Panama Papers, why ICIJ continues to report on tax havens, and those who exploit them.
Across the world, democracy watchdogs are warning that emergency measures aimed at quelling the COVID-19 outbreak are also turning into tools of repression.
Most European Union members have failed to implement new measures designed to counter the corporate secrecy underpinning international money laundering.
A leading anti-corruption group is urging U.S. lawmakers to include tough safeguards that will protect against “self-interested parties" in a proposed coronavirus relief bill.
Cape Verde will close banks that serve only foreign customers, including one partly owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos.
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