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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Following Bribery Division, a Peruvian prosecutor requested three years in prison for former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia for alleged corruption connected with Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht.
The World Bank is beefing up its accountability to communities who say they were harmed by World Bank-funded projects.
Residents driven from urban beach now live in wretched conditions by open sewers.
Banks, prosecutors and the head of PWC have responded to our Luanda Leaks investigation in the past two days.
Isabel dos Santos created a shell empire to move tainted billions — lawyers, accountants and consultants made it possible.
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