International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Dartmouth researchers use ICIJ database to show how the ultrawealthy exploit the offshore world

ICIJ spoke to author Herbert Chang about the study, which found that elites in both democratic and authoritarian countries ...
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Russia secretly acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet

Russian Secrets, a new cross-border investigation, reveals the shadowy procurement network behind Russia’s surveillance ...
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China uses dissidents-turned-spies to infiltrate overseas activist groups, as authorities flounder

Guo Jian took notes as Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, speaker for the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, met with pro-democracy activists in 2017 in Dharamshala, India, and discussed China’s repressive policies ...
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How a Pentagon contractor built a global empire — and a massive tax evasion scheme

A U.S. cargo plane lands on the runway of the Manas airbase in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Inset: Military contractor Douglas Edelman, who pleaded guilty in one of the U.S.’s largest ever tax evasion cases.
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Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil

Kazakhstan’s then- president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, delivers a speech a speech during a presentation on the Kashagan offshore oil field at the Bolashak oil plant near Atyrau in Kazakhstan in 2013.
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Hundreds of millions more dollars recouped by governments after ICIJ investigations

Protesters in Iceland rallied for multiple days in a row in April 2016, holding up red cards for their prime minister who ultimately resigned following revelations of his offshore holdings in the ...
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The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows

The IRS Building as seen on February 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. The agency has laid off thousands of employees as the Trump administration pushes to downsize the federal workforce through the ...
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After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say

The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. As the Trump administration continues slashing the federal workforce, a familiar target of budget cuts is squarely in the crosshairs: the IRS.
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Inside Big Oil’s war against transparency

The first day of February 2017 was a good one for Rex Tillerson. That afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted 56-43 to confirm him to be secretary of state. The recently retired ExxonMobil Corp. CEO was ...
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Ten years on, ‘Lux Leaks’ remains a byword for corporate tax chicanery

In the fall of 2014, ICIJ published a series of stories exposing the secret deals used by hundreds of multinationals including some of the world’s largest companies to reduce their tax bills to ...
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Inside the sophisticated sales operation funneling billions from US state and local governments to Israel

In August 2023, an executive at Israel Bonds — an organization that sells bonds to fund that nation’s government and buttress its military — emailed the Ohio state treasurer’s office a sales pitch: ...
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Mysterious memo tying Zambian ex-president Edgar Lungu to alleged corruption highlights the limits of financial intelligence units

On Dec. 6, 2021, Zambian financial crime investigators sent a confidential memo to their counterparts in Eswatini, the country formerly known as Swaziland. In it, the Zambian Financial Intelligence ...