ICIJ found a Cyprus-based firm aided Alexey Mordashov’s bid to protect a $1.4 billion investment from EU sanctions. Now, authorities are accused of sitting on the same information.
During a debate called in response to ICIJ's latest investigation, one parliamentarian said it showed how the entire European bloc was turning into a “gangster’s paradise.”
European lawmakers called to fix “weak link” in the bloc’s financial system in response to ICIJ’s investigation, while sales of books by a Kremlin-friendly German journalist have been halted.
Luxury cars, Harvard tuition and an English country estate: What U.K. authorities say oligarch Petr Aven sought to protect as Russia invaded Ukraine.
Inside Syria’s secret talks to buy forbidden U.S. equipment vital to the Assad government’s survival.
ICIJ-led investigation Cyprus Confidential reveals how the EU member state powered the Kremlin’s financial machine, moving vast sums for oligarchs, including after Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion.
The Big Four firm has served dozens of oligarchs through its Cyprus branch, undermining global efforts to punish Putin's allies and stymie support for Russia's war machine.
Cyprus Confidential reveals the indispensable role the Mediterranean island plays in helping oligarchs move and hide their wealth.
A new investigation by ICIJ partner The Guardian shows the offshore moves made in an apparent attempt to thwart potential sanctions that may have jeopardized the Russian oligarch’s extraordinary collection of modern art.
ICIJ partners in Europe revealed the indirect trade routes used to mask the origins of Russian timber, which continues to flow into the EU despite being banned.
The Russian leader met a former teacher decades later, but new documents support old suspicions about Putin’s influence.
To really rein in Putin’s allies’ wealth, governments should target their financial enablers, a new study suggests.
The charges stem from bank accounts linked to Vladimir Putin’s childhood friend Sergei Roldugin, whose web of offshore companies was first revealed in the Panama Papers.
Two wealthy Haitians recently sanctioned by Canada owned or had other links to almost 20 companies and trusts created in some of the world’s most secretive tax havens, according to documents from the Pandora Papers.
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has appointed dozens of honorary consuls. Many spread pro-Kremlin sentiment around the world.
An ICIJ investigation detailed how Swiss businessman Alexander Studhalter was at the center of a vast web of shell companies tied to Kerimov that moved billions via American banks.
A cache of documents reveals how Christopher Kinahan Sr. masqueraded as a relief flight consultant before the bid was put to four high-ranking Egyptian military officers.
Amid a wave of sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s allies, complex networks of offshore companies are making for choppy waters for authorities looking to confiscate high value assets.
Paradise Papers reveal how billionaire Andrei Skoch financed the acquisition of luxury assets including a yacht now targeted by U.S. sanctions, while offshore law firm Appleby disregarded his alleged ties to Russian criminal groups.
Multiple U.S. government agencies announced new restrictions on dozens of entities and assets in response to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, including Putin’s close friends and allies, as well as yacht brokerages and defense industry companies.
While the industries are now barred from working with anyone inside Russia, professional enablers of financial secrecy in states like Wyoming and Alaska have opposed proposals to increase transparency.
A new report connects widespread violence to cocaine wars involving the sanctioned Irish family, whose connections to companies and enablers in Dubai and Panama were revealed in recent ICIJ investigations.
Gold billionaire Suleyman Kerimov violated sanctions in funding the luxury ship, U.S. says.
Documents leaked to ICIJ tie the Kinahan organized crime cartel to companies and enablers in the Middle East’s top secrecy haven.
To make sanctions more than symbolic, democratic countries would have to inconvenience their own rich people, says British journalist Oliver Bullough, author of a new book on the U.K.'s role in the offshore economy.