Paradise Papers revealed the suspected radical, a Viennese entrepreneur, was listed as the director of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands, Malta, and the Bahamas.
A new advisory urges agents, brokers, and others in the art industry to adopt safeguards against financial crime, money laundering, and sanctions evasion.
The territory’s secrecy rules have long attracted criminals and secretive companies created there have featured in several ICIJ investigations on offshore finance.
European banks and shell companies play a key role in global money laundering.
ICIJ partners investigated 'ghost' companies in Canada, Russian mirror trades, North Korean money moving through major U.S. banks, Miami’s role in global money laundering, and more.
The FACTI panel cited ICIJ investigations for bringing financial crimes and tax justice to the world’s attention, but says reform has been slow to come when wrongdoing is exposed.
Richard Gaffey forged documents to help American clients evade taxes and worked with lawyers at the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, prosecutors said.
Secret transactions, lost jobs, worker injuries, gutted buildings, unpaid bills: Ihor Kolomoisky’s untold American legacy.
Where in the world is Pantheon Worldwide? Not even its own bank can say.
Harald Joachim von der Goltz was sentenced to four years for wire and tax fraud, money laundering, false statements and other charges.
The FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks, swamping a broken enforcement system.
The island territory failed to comply with standards on how countries share information about people and companies suspected of financial wrongdoing, the OECD found.
A landmark ruling against the beneficiary of an undeclared Swiss bank account could be a breakthrough moment for authorities hunting hidden wealth.
A bill that would create a register of the real, flesh-and-blood owners of U.S. companies enjoys broad support, but has been slowed by political gridlock.
Billionaire brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg bought millions of dollars in art, even while U.S. institutions were banned from doing business with them.
Singapore’s financial watchdog has fined trust company Asiaciti for failing to guard against money laundering and terrorism financing
Europe’s second-highest court has overturned a ruling by the European Commission in a major blow for attempts to crack down on tax corporate tax avoidance.
An Angolan court says the deal between the country’s diamond company and Isabel dos Santos’ husband was harmful to average Angolans.
The Angolan billionaire has accused the country’s legal system of being “rigged” after a Luanda court threw out an appeal to unfreeze her assets.
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.
With governments racked by colossal costs due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts say tax evasion is cast in a stark new light.
The dos Santos brewery masterplan hinged on one of the couple’s favorite business entities: shell companies. This time the couple turned to Mauritius the small island tax haven off the east coast of Africa.
As scrutiny of her business empire increased, African billionaire Isabel dos Santos turned to one of the world’s most secretive tax havens to conceal a $1.8 million luxury apartment.
A U.S. taxpayer will plead guilty to tax evasion and money laundering offenses in relation to the 2016 investigation.
Banks, prosecutors and the head of PWC have responded to our Luanda Leaks investigation in the past two days.
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