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Kazakhstan claims that a group of international oil companies has been taking a staggering 98% of oil revenue from the giant Kashagan oil and gas field, according to confidential filings in a $160 billion arbitration claim seen by ICIJ. Plus, a second former president in Peru has been sentenced as part of the sprawling Odebrecht corruption scandal.
New data obtained by ICIJ shows that the IRS unit that audits billionaires and other ultrawealthy individuals lost 38% of its employees this year as part of President Trump and Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal workforce. Also, the IFC delayed a report that showed its failure to address complaints at a rubber plantation, and a Trump executive order threatens reporters from Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America with returns to repressive regimes.
The Kremlin is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send military equipment to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, leaked documents reveal. Plus, a leading boxing “fixer” claims that international crime boss Daniel Kinahan secretly struck a multimillion-dollar deal with a top global fight promoter, and more.
Investigative news organizations worldwide are scrambling to survive and fearing a backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. Plus, the U.S. withdrawal from global tax agreements and negotiations has upended international cooperation efforts, but some tax justice advocates say it could herald positive change.
Timur Kulibayev, the billionaire son-in-law of Kazakhstan's former president, is reportedly negotiating a deal to pay about $1 billion to the state amid a government probe. Plus, a U.S. political strategist says an Uzbek businessman asked him to lobby for sanctions against a political rival.
British lawmakers have called for an investigation into Roman Abramovich’s offshore financial affairs after reporting by ICIJ's media partners revealed the oligarch may owe up to $1.24 billion in U.K. tax. Plus, a controversial $150 million World Bank project was terminated in Tanzania after allegations of forced evictions, rapes and extrajudicial killings.
JPMorgan Chase for years understated the risk it posed to the financial system, according to a whistleblower who claimed that America’s largest bank made billions of dollars by violating rules established to protect the global economy from crisis. Plus, the future of the Corporate Transparency Act, a landmark anti-corruption law, remains uncertain after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and more.
ICIJ’s Marcos Garcia Reyes shares takeaways from his three-day reporting trip in Spain, tracking down Kazakh oligarch Timur Kulibayev and his properties on the coast. Plus, the U.K.’s anti-corruption minister steps down, and ICIJ looks back on Luanda Leaks’ fifth anniversary.
A federal judge approved the IRS’s request to demand records about U.S. taxpayers from a Manhattan-based affiliate of the Trident Trust, one of the offshore firms at the center of ICIJ’s Pandora Papers investigation. Plus, a new platform spearheaded by an ICIJ member in Peru tracks corruption cases in Latin America and beyond.
Syria’s intelligence services launched an investigation into the Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism after it reported on Damascus’ business links with Europe, a cache of confidential memos reveals. Plus, Nigerian authorities arrested “Christy Gold,” the alleged ringleader of a criminal network that forced women into sex work in Dubai, and Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they’re still waiting for compensation for labor abuses.
When one of ICIJ’s Casbian Cabals reporters traveled to Kazakhstan in search of answers to a decade-old mystery, nothing went to plan. So, she made a new one: old-school shoe-leather reporting. Plus, new data shows IRS criminal referrals hit a 40-year low in 2024, and more.
Five years since ICIJ’s China Cables investigation, Uyghurs in exile and advocates say the ethnic minority group’s conditions haven’t improved. But, despite human rights concerns, Chinese weapons makers are finding buyers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Plus, a new Human Rights Watch report details alleged abuse of models by webcam studios across Colombia.
New data released this week by database firm OpenCorporates revealed that the number of incorporations in Wyoming shot up by an unprecedented 30% in 2023, the Cowboy State bucking its way past Delaware to take top spot in the country on a registrations-per-capita measure. Plus, Caspian Cabals stories from ICIJ's partners, and the Dutch yachtmaker who built Jeff Bezos' superyacht fined for teak use.
Ten years ago a mysterious health crisis ushered in the end of Berezovka. Caspian Cabals, ICIJ’s latest investigation, found the village’s former residents are still grappling with chronic illness and broken promises. Plus, the U.K. sanctions former billionaire Isabel dos Santos, and Canadian lawmakers say they were “played for suckers” by the owner of Canada’s largest pulp and paper company.
Caspian Cabals reveals how Western oil companies ignored bribery risks and massive cost overruns to secure their stake in a critical Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, then delivered substantial control of it to the Kremlin.