Dec 10, 2024 · Chinese riot-control gear on the web. While Xi’s government continues to dismiss concerns of human rights abuses, some Chinese companies that supply riot control tools and weapons to domestic security forces accused of crimes in Xinjiang try to reach foreign customers.. An ICIJ examination of trade records collected in the ImportGenius database as well as e-commerce platforms reveal that ...

Apr 3, 2016 · Files reveal the offshore holdings of 140 politicians and public officials from around the world Current and former world leaders in the data include the prime minister of Iceland, the president of Ukraine, and the king of Saudi Arabia

4 days ago · The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.

Oct 2, 2024 · L ate last year, the Internal Revenue Service notched a significant win in its fight against high-end tax dodging when a federal judge in Colorado upheld the agency’s challenge to a $2.4 billion tax deduction claimed by Liberty Global, a multinational telecommunications firm. The case, which centered on a complex offshore tax maneuver that generated the huge write-off for the corporation ...

Apr 8, 2024 · Eight years after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 media partners worldwide broke the first Panama Papers revelations, a landmark money laundering trial stemming from it has commenced in a Panamanian criminal court.. Twenty-seven people are being tried, including Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca Mora, the founders of the now-shuttered local law firm ...

Aug 21, 2024 · A British law firm representing a group of OneCoin investors said that a London court has issued worldwide freezing orders on assets belonging to Bulgarian fraudster Ruja Ignatova and some of her associates, months after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners revealed the promoters of the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme invested in luxury properties ...

May 24, 2024 · At least $2.6 billion of illicit or suspicious funds were invested in commercial real estate across the United States over the last 20 years, according to a new report by a network of anti-corruption advocacy organizations.

Oct 29, 2024 · Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison last week for his involvement in the Odebrecht corruption scandal, a sprawling bribery scheme orchestrated by the Brazilian construction giant in multiple countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Oct 3, 2021 · ‘You know who’ The Pandora Papers investigation is larger and more global than even ICIJ’s landmark Panama Papers investigation, which rocked the world in 2016, spawning police raids and new laws in dozens of countries and the fall of prime ministers in Iceland and Pakistan.. The Panama Papers came from the files of a single offshore services provider: the Panamanian law firm Mossack ...

Oct 3, 2021 · An investigation by more than 600 journalists from 150 news outlets has unearthed offshore dealings of 35 current and former world leaders and more than 300 other current and former public officials and politicians around the world.