Swiss authorities have frozen nearly $900 million belonging to an Angolan business executive with ties to successive presidential regimes, according to newly released court documents. Switzerland’s ...
Shadow Diplomats shines light on one of the least-examined roles in international diplomacy: the honorary consul. These volunteer diplomats work from their home countries to promote the interests of ...
In early 2010, U.S. lawmakers gave what was supposed to be a gift to IRS agents with the grueling job of ensuring the wealthiest people and largest corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Tucked ...
In the ruins of the former Soviet Union, legal giant Baker McKenzie found lucrative work for Russia’s largest state-controlled companies. From energy titan Gazprom to banking behemoth VTB to Rostec, ...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service sent fewer criminal cases to federal prosecutors in the 2024 fiscal year than at any point in more than 40 years, according to a review of federal data by the ...
Nine years after the Panama Papers helped turbocharge authorities’ pursuit of hidden wealth, the global impacts of ICIJ’s offshore investigations are still being felt. After a Panamanian judge cleared ...
Former top EU official among the politicians and others named in leak revealing 175,000 offshore companies registered in the Bahamas.
Dubai’s man-made Palm Jumeirah archipelago. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian nationals have bought up $6.3 billion in existing and in-development properties in Dubai, a group of economists ...
Intellexa founder Tal Dilian poses for a picture at his house in Limassol, Cyprus, in April 2020. The United States has sanctioned notorious spyware consortium Intellexa, as well as its two key ...
Almost five years ago, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published its Lux Leaks investigation, exposing how some of the world’s largest corporations cycled billions of dollars ...
Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny ...
Agents from the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal division. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling civil divisions referred just 157 tax cases for criminal investigation last fiscal year — ...