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How investment firms shield the ultrawealthy from the IRS
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Treasury hired an economist named Owen Zidar as a contractor to help a team of government officials examine a problem of growing urgency. The ultrawealthy were...
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Panama Papers trial begins with denials eight years after historic tax...
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...
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US prosecutors push to seize apartment tied to Congolese president in luxury...
U.S. authorities are looking to seize a $7.1 million Manhattan apartment as part of a corruption probe into the Republic of Congo’s first family, court documents show. In a forfeiture complaint filed...
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Frequently asked questions about the Swazi Secrets investigation
What is the Swazi Secrets investigation? Swazi Secrets is a cross-border investigation based on leaked files from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit. The investigation reveals Eswatini’s...
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About the Swazi Secrets investigation
Swazi Secrets is a cross-border investigation that reveals Eswatini’s unexplored role as a possible conduit in southern Africa’s gold smuggling economy — and how the absolute monarchy’s weak anti-money...
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How international gold dealers exploited a tiny African kingdom’s economic dream
Against a backdrop of rolling hills and sugar cane fields, a generous stretch of cleared land borders the small industrial town of Matsapha in central Eswatini, a tiny landlocked African country...
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The central bank in a tiny African country tried to block a suspicious...
Not much happens in Bulembu these days. The little company town grew around an asbestos mine that began operations in 1939. By the 1960s, Havelock Mine was one of the world’s biggest producers of the...
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China relied on extrajudicial means to force thousands of fugitives to...
Over the past decade China has forcibly repatriated more than 12,000 fugitives, as part of a state campaign to stamp out corruption, according to a new report by a human rights group. Safeguard...
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UK freezes London property linked to Putin ally after ICIJ report
U.K. authorities froze a multimillion-dollar London townhouse linked to Igor Komarov roughly one week after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed the property appeared...
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New ethical guidelines for tax professionals announced following global scandals
Following years of global tax scandals, including ICIJ’s Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers investigations, a global accountants’ ethics board has released a new set of standards for tax professionals,...
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