Offshore finance
The expansion of a list of jurisdictions linked to money laundering or terrorist financing has attracted criticism from some of the included countries.
The first person arrested in the United States in relation to the Panama Papers has pleaded not guilty before a New York court. Read the emails, letters, and invoices involving the accused.
The investigation is focused on whether Germany’s biggest bank helped clients set up offshore accounts to transfer money from criminal activities.
There was an 800 percent spike in disclosure after the offshore secrecy investigation.
Close political allies and a family member of Recep Tayyip Erdogan are suing a journalist and her newspaper not for inaccuracies, but for alleged damage to their reputations.
The U.S. government took “limited or no action” to battle secret offshore holdings, despite spending $380 million on a new initiative.
The historic corruption verdict against Pakistan’s former leader also included prison sentences for his daughter and son-in-law.
A collaborative investigation has exposed what they describe as “the banality” of tax evasion costing France millions of euros each year.
ICIJ partners from Latin America to Eastern Europe (and in between) have exposed a plethora of new abuses.
Governments around the world have recouped more than $700 million in fines and back taxes as a result of the Panama Papers investigation, a new tally reveals.