Oct 02, 2026
WATCH: Inside the China Capital investigation — a live panel
A behind-the-scenes look at ICIJ's investigation into the world's biggest bank, with insights from ICIJ’s reporter and an expert on China's lending practices.
Asia-Pacific
Sep 23, 2026
China Capital stories reveal how ICBC advanced China’s political goals across four continents
ICIJ’s media partners uncovered strategic deals and moves the Chinese bank made around the world to further the political priorities of the party-state.
Sep 18, 2026
US prosecutors accuse Huawei of ‘far-reaching criminal scheme’ spanning decades
The Chinese tech giant is on trial in New York for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and stealing trade secrets as it built its global telecommunications empire.
Sep 15, 2026
UK Parliament debates infrastructure security after China Capital revelations
ICIJ and its media partners found that Chinese bank ICBC served as a financing hub for infrastructure in the U.K. and Australia, prompting questions about Beijing’s influence over public projects.
Sep 14, 2026
Chinese banking giant serves firms linked to oligarchs and autocrats to push Beijing’s agenda
Confidential records reveal how the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s London units courted high-risk clients to secure resources and alliances for Xi Jinping’s regime.
Sep 14, 2026
Chinese bank helped Huawei spirit $1B out of London days after US indictment of the tech giant
The urgent operation exposes how readily ICBC’s local branch bypassed internal checks to boost a Beijing favorite.
Sep 14, 2026
ICBC promoted corrupt executive, ignored employee misconduct as it pursued global expansion
The Chinese banking giant turned a blind eye to alleged fraud and embezzlement within its ranks for years, according to a tranche of confidential files.
Sep 14, 2026
WATCH: How the world’s biggest bank advances Beijing’s interests
Based on a trove of 4.8 million records, China Capital reveals how ICBC used its U.K. operations to pursue explicitly political objectives for its majority shareholder, the Chinese government.
Sep 14, 2026
Frequently asked questions about the China Capital investigation
How does the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China operate? What did ICIJ uncover in millions of confidential bank records? These questions and more, answered.
Sep 14, 2026
About the China Capital investigation
A global investigation by ICIJ lays bare the hidden playbook of one of China’s most powerful banks.
Aug 14, 2026
Kazakhstan alleges Big Oil corruption tainted $10.7 billion in contracts, delayed key oil project
The allegations, which are at the heart of a confidential arbitration, signal an aggressive new stance by the Central Asian country toward longstanding international partners.
Jul 23, 2026
Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits
Women on four continents told ICIJ that global pay-per-action dating sites owned by a Russian businessman and self-styled philosopher left them financially broke and heartbroken.
Jul 15, 2026
International Finance Corporation watchdog in turmoil following scathing report on microfinance in Cambodia
The head of an internal auditor resigned after the board of the World Bank’s private investment arm rejected her office’s findings that the deal violated internal safeguard policies.
Jul 07, 2026
Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network
The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates ICIJ and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.
Apr 28, 2026
‘Escalating efforts’: A year after China Targets, Beijing’s global campaign against dissenters continues
In 2025, China was the most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, a new Freedom House report found.
Apr 27, 2026
Phony whistleblowers, fake journalists and cyber spies: ICIJ network targeted after China Targets probe
Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we investigated.
Apr 21, 2026
A ‘burgeoning black market’, inflated dosing and the over-judicialization of health care: reporters around the world tell stories about Keytruda
In a yearlong investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reporters from more than 37 countries found the cancer drug’s high price impacts patients and health systems differently.
Apr 13, 2026
How Merck turned its wonder drug into a blockbuster — and priced out cancer patients worldwide
The pharmaceutical giant has built a fortress of patents, traded in secrecy and relentlessly lobbied to guard its revenue kingpin Keytruda.
Apr 13, 2026
Counterfeiters cash in on the world’s bestselling cancer drug
Desperate patients — and even hospitals — have become unwitting customers of fake Keytruda, with potentially fatal consequences.
Apr 07, 2026
Global headlines and a public reckoning: Ten years of the Panama Papers, part 3
On the 10-year anniversary of the Panama Papers, journalists and a Nobel-wining economist share their recollections of how the story unfolded, and how the investigation still resonates today.
Apr 02, 2026
Behind the veil of secrecy: Ten years of the Panama Papers, part 2
On the 10-year anniversary of the Panama Papers, journalists recall how it all happened, and how the investigation took the world by storm.
Apr 02, 2026
Ten years after the Panama Papers, enablers and tax cheats are still being brought to justice
A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation sent a shock through the offshore world.
Mar 18, 2026
Questions swirl around US plans for record $15B Prince Group crypto seizure
Victim advocates fear the funds seized from the Prince Group’s founder will be stashed away for the U.S.’s new strategic cryptocurrency reserve.
Mar 11, 2026
Italian authorities order expulsion of Chinese agents responsible for spying on dissidents
The Interior Ministry acted days after local media reported that Chinese state actors in 2024 hacked the database of a police unit assigned to protecting Chinese dissidents.
Feb 18, 2026
Hong Kong firms feed European tech to Russia’s war in Ukraine, report says
Researchers at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation identify Hong Kong as a key hub in the illicit trade of Western military technology to Russia.