The Panama Papers is one of the biggest leaks and largest collaborative investigations in journalism history. The 2016 investigation was centered on more than 11.5 million financial and legal records that exposed a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
Since Imran Khan became prime minister, the military’s influence on the government has grown as has the administration’s aversion to criticism, advocates and Pakistani reporters say.
The island territory failed to comply with standards on how countries share information about people and companies suspected of financial wrongdoing, the OECD found.
"Meaningful sentences must be given... to forewarn others of the consequences for engaging in multi-year tax fraud," prosecutors argue.
Billionaire brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg bought millions of dollars in art, even while U.S. institutions were banned from doing business with them.
European lawmakers have demanded the regulator assess “whether there were breaches of either national or EU law, and to assess the actions taken by financial supervisors.”
The EU's permanent subcommittee will likely focus on corporate tax avoidance by tech companies and multinationals tax information, but not money laundering.
The Panama Papers revealed that shortly after taking office, Konrad Mizzi incorporated undeclared shell companies.
The man in charge of stopping criminals from laundering money has a scathing report of the world’s progress.
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.
Four years after Panama Papers, why ICIJ continues to report on tax havens, and those who exploit them.
Nelfi Fernandez Reyes talks about reporting while democracy is under assault.
Most European Union members have failed to implement new measures designed to counter the corporate secrecy underpinning international money laundering.
A Massachusetts accountant should spend up to nine years behind bars for helping U.S. residents to evade taxes and launder money over almost two decades, prosecutors told a New York City courtroom on Friday.
Our Japanese member, reporter Yasuomi Sawa, says reporters need to harness the power of open data but never forget about the people they're writing about.
Prosecutors are seeking jail time for Harald Joachim von der Goltz, who said he was "profoundly sorry" as he pleaded guilty to a range of financial crimes.
A U.S. taxpayer will plead guilty to tax evasion and money laundering offenses in relation to the 2016 investigation.
Malta has a new prime minister following the resignation of the former leader, Joseph Muscat, whose top adviser was linked to the car bomb murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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.
The Democratic presidential hopeful pledged new laws to stamp out shell companies, and also planned to increase global collaboration to fight tax evasion.
Defense attorneys in the upcoming criminal trial argued that the words “shell” company and “tax haven” would unfairly inflame the passions of the jury.
Joseph Muscat confirmed he will resign in January as the scandal over the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia continues to envelop his government.
Two government ministers and the prime minister's chief of staff have resigned two years after the death of anti-corruption reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia.
A wealthy Maltese businessman was arrested aboard his luxury cruiser yacht in connection with the car bomb murder of reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia.
It's a thin line that separates tax evasion, which is outright illegal, and tax avoidance, which may or may not be legal.
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