ICIJ’s investigations have a global impact.
In response to ICIJ’s work, criminal investigations have been opened, faulty products recalled, leaders have resigned, and millions of dollars have been recouped by governments across the world. Read here how the world has responded.
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The Panama Papers scandal helped create a “snowball effect” of international awareness on how anonymous corporate vehicles can enable tax evasion, corruption, and crime, advocates say.
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.
How prosecutors patiently launched criminal probes into American tax evaders and their lawyers — and why we may not have seen the last of the Panama Papers investigations.
The rare, coordinated effort has triggered a strong reaction from China, which retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions against European politicians and scholars.
Dan Gertler was first frozen out of the U.S. financial system in 2017 after Paradise Papers exposed how he helped secure lucrative mining rights for commodities giant Glencore.
The State Department bars Ihor Kolomoisky, saying he ‘undermined the rule of law’ in Ukraine.
Joachim Alexander von der Goltz repaid the U.S. government more than $230,000 after admitting to financial crimes revealed by the ICIJ investigation.
The Angolan billionaire’s company had “no intention” to carry out economic activity in Malta, the island nation's authorities said.
A tech-driven ‘Manhattan Project’ at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is among significant reforms recommended by an anti-money-laundering group.
The forum of wealthy nations urges countries to target and disrupt ‘enablers’ of tax evasion, money laundering and other illicit finance.
The acquisition was bankrolled by state oil company Sonangol, whose lawyers now allege that the deal enriched Angola’s former ruling family at the expense of the country.
ICIJ and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice among nominees that also include Committee to Protect Journalists, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and climate activist Greta Thunberg.
The Australian Tax Office obtained an order freezing 11 bank accounts and preventing the sale of three Sydney homes to stop the pair from scattering their wealth beyond authorities’ reach.
Publisher Moussa Aksar was targeted as his reporting on millions in disappearing defense spending was submitted in a request to force a government inquiry.
The landmark legislation contains several loopholes, exemptions and shortcomings that may become key vulnerabilities in the fight against corruption and financial secrecy, advocates say.
The First Amendment ruling is Mossack Fonseca’s latest legal stumble against the streaming giant.
Luanda Leaks showed how the mobile company became a cash cow for the Angolan billionaire. It’s now seeking repayment of loans totalling $430 million.
After ICIJ and BuzzFeed News published a joint investigation, officials across the globe began to take action to thwart criminals and illicit financial activity.
The long-sought reforms, effectively ending anonymous shell companies, were included in an annual defense spending bill approved by both houses of Congress with veto-proof margins.
While Isabel dos Santos and her advisers face multiple investigations, accountability for the offshore industry remains elusive.
Leaked Chinese government documents published by ICIJ were part of evidence submitted to the International Criminal Court by two Uighur activist groups.
The proposal was made at a Belgian parliamentary hearing held in response to the FinCEN Files investigation.
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