Nov 15, 2023
Cyprus firm helped a Putin ally move $5 million the day he was sanctioned
Luxury cars, Harvard tuition and an English country estate: What U.K. authorities say oligarch Petr Aven sought to protect as Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Nov 15, 2023
Chelsea FC, once owned by Roman Abramovich, could face punishment over secret payments, experts warn
Four leading sports lawyers told The Guardian that transactions uncovered in Cyprus Confidential documents may have broken U.K. league rules.
Nov 14, 2023
German journalist dubbed the ‘Putin connoisseur’ had secret book deal with Russian oligarch
ICIJ partners reveal that Hubert Seipel — known for his unusual access to the Russian president — agreed to receive around $700,000 from a shell company tied to steel tycoon Alexey Mordashov.
Nov 14, 2023
Cyprus ignores Russian atrocities, Western sanctions to shield vast wealth of Putin allies
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.
Nov 14, 2023
As sanctions loomed, accounting giant PwC scrambled to keep powerful Russians a step ahead
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.
Nov 14, 2023
Confidential Clients
Cyprus Confidential reveals the indispensable role the Mediterranean island plays in helping oligarchs move and hide their wealth.
Nov 14, 2023
WATCH: Cyprus Confidential reveals island’s role in shielding Russian wealth
An ICIJ-led investigation uncovers the oligarchs, criminals and shadowy entities that sought help from Cyprus' sprawling financial secrecy industry.
Nov 14, 2023
About the Cyprus Confidential investigation
An ICIJ-led investigation exposes how Cyprus firms provided services to help key backers of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime shelter their wealth and then, as Russia invaded Ukraine, hide billions of dollars in assets from the threat of sanctions.
Nov 14, 2023
How Cyprus rose to become the beating heart of the Putin regime’s shadow financial system
Russia dominated the island’s banking system under the watch of the European Union.
Nov 14, 2023
Beyond Cyprus, PwC has weathered a decade of global probes and scandals
The global accounting and auditing firm has featured in multiple ICIJ investigations, as well as legal and ethical dustups around the world.
Nov 14, 2023
Cyprus Confidential firms
At the heart of the Cyprus Confidential investigation are 3.6 million leaked files including from six financial service providers based on the island.
Oct 30, 2023
New documentary shows ‘The Price of Truth’ in Putin’s Russia
The film follows Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov as he tries to keep the country’s last independent newspaper in operation.
Sep 22, 2023
Leak reveals majority interest in Roman Abramovich’s nearly $1 billion art collection was transferred to his ex-wife ahead of sanctions
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.
Sep 13, 2023
IRS investigating sanctioned Russian oligarchs’ use of South Dakota trusts, agent says
The agency has dedicated a team to uncovering oligarchs’ assets stashed in South Dakota’s secretive trusts, which ICIJ’s Pandora Papers revealed are popular with bad actors seeking to anonymously hide wealth.
Jun 30, 2023
How Russia’s timber trade is sidestepping the EU’s Ukraine war sanctions
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.
Jun 26, 2023
UK government accused of avoiding dirty money checks on political donations despite scandals
Experts warn loopholes that allow suspect donations to flow into politics put the country’s elections at risk of foreign inference.
May 11, 2023
In 2022, ICIJ exposed new faultlines in the global political landscape
ICIJ spent the last year doing what it does best: mining datasets, sifting through documents and shining a light on systems previously shrouded in secrecy.
Apr 02, 2023
Feel-good story trumpeted Putin’s donation to elderly teacher. A prominent Russian billionaire actually paid
The Russian leader met a former teacher decades later, but new documents support old suspicions about Putin’s influence.
Mar 14, 2023
Analysis of ICIJ data shows how to stop Russian oligarchs in their tracks
To really rein in Putin’s allies’ wealth, governments should target their financial enablers, a new study suggests.
Mar 01, 2023
Swiss bank employees indicted in connection to Russia president’s vast fortunes
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.
Dec 21, 2022
How 2022 turned into one of ICIJ’s biggest years for investigations and impact
Over the last 12 months, the newsroom behind the world’s biggest journalism collaborations put out more deep-dive global exposés than ever before.
Dec 04, 2022
Agents of influence: How Russia deploys an army of shadow diplomats
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has appointed dozens of honorary consuls. Many spread pro-Kremlin sentiment around the world.
Nov 16, 2022
US sanctions financial network and luxury planes linked to Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov
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.
Aug 24, 2022
Leaked files shed light on financial structures behind oligarchs’ seized yachts
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.
Jul 11, 2022
Uber forged deals with top Putin allies in failed bid to break into Russian market
To “tame the bear,” Uber partnered with a Kremlin bank and offered stock enticements to Russian oligarchs, internal memos reveal.