Nov 02, 2020
Goldman Sachs 1MDB settlement: a meaningful punishment for major financial crimes?
While the deal bears hallmarks of prosecutorial timidity, the indictment against two banking executives makes the case unusual, experts say.
Accountability
Oct 19, 2020
6 money laundering reforms that experts say need to happen right now
Failures exposed by the FinCEN Files investigation require urgent intervention, regulators, experts and politicians say.
Oct 15, 2020
Jail bankers who allow money laundering, top Democrat in U.S. Senate banking committee says in wake of FinCEN Files
Sen. Sherrod Brown calls for criminally prosecuting executives who profit from moving money for criminals and corrupt regimes.
Oct 13, 2020
The fastest way to send criminal cash: money transmitters
How companies like Western Union and MoneyGram play a hidden role in laundering cash from around the globe.
Sep 03, 2020
Swiss company ‘running away from tax obligations,’ Zimbabwe tax office says
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.
Jun 19, 2020
World Bank slammed for response on disastrous dam project
The organization has denied responsibility for violence by police and security guards against communities who protested a doomed Guatemalan dam.
May 22, 2020
EU ‘dirty money’ action plan faces resistance, criticism
The European Commission wants to create a central authority to tackle money laundering, but some EU members are rebelling against the plan.
May 15, 2020
US Senate approves bill to punish China over Uighur rights
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
May 11, 2020
‘Everyone is doing badly’, anti-money laundering czar warns
The man in charge of stopping criminals from laundering money has a scathing report of the world’s progress.
May 04, 2020
Investigating the coronavirus: The ‘Wild West’ of unproven treatments
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.
Apr 23, 2020
Oil giant Eni to pay millions over ‘sham contracts’ in Panama Papers bribery case
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.
Apr 21, 2020
U.S. isolates detained immigrants from majority-black countries at high rate, study finds
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.
Apr 06, 2020
What is a tax haven? Offshore finance, explained
Four years after Panama Papers, why ICIJ continues to report on tax havens, and those who exploit them.
Apr 02, 2020
Investigating the coronavirus: Regimes use public safety guise to repress rights
Across the world, democracy watchdogs are warning that emergency measures aimed at quelling the COVID-19 outbreak are also turning into tools of repression.
Mar 25, 2020
EU states miss financial transparency deadline
Most European Union members have failed to implement new measures designed to counter the corporate secrecy underpinning international money laundering.
Mar 23, 2020
Global coalition calls for safeguards to prevent looting of coronavirus relief funds
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.
Mar 19, 2020
Luanda Leaks sealed new Cape Verde banking law, minister says
Cape Verde will close banks that serve only foreign customers, including one partly owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos.
Mar 17, 2020
Investigating COVID-19: Virus testing in the US
Are you a government or health official, medical worker or someone else with a Coronavirus story to tell? Share your story with us.
Mar 12, 2020
Peru’s former first lady faces jail over Odebrecht corruption
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.
Mar 10, 2020
World Bank amplifies accountability to communities affected by its projects
The World Bank is beefing up its accountability to communities who say they were harmed by World Bank-funded projects.
Jan 27, 2020
Luanda Leaks reveals thousands forced at gunpoint from fishing community at site of dos Santos project
Residents driven from urban beach now live in wretched conditions by open sewers.
Jan 21, 2020
PwC head ‘shocked and disappointed’ by Luanda Leaks revelations
Banks, prosecutors and the head of PWC have responded to our Luanda Leaks investigation in the past two days.
Jan 19, 2020
Western advisers helped an autocrat’s daughter amass and shield a fortune
Isabel dos Santos created a shell empire to move tainted billions — lawyers, accountants and consultants made it possible.
Dec 23, 2019
‘Urgent’ EU Plan to End Secret Company Ownership Poised to Miss Deadline
Countries, including Malta and Cyprus, are running out of time to comply with new rules aimed at thwarting corrupt regimes, mafia groups and terror funders.
Dec 18, 2019
World Bank Drags Feet in Probe of Activist’s Murder
Facing unclear legal risks following a U.S. court ruling, the World Bank Group has delayed releasing an internal probe into a doomed Guatemalan dam project.
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