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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As Equatorial Guinea burned through oil riches, millions were funneled to a company owned by its ‘playboy prince’

The President Obiang Nguema International Airport lies outside the small town of Mongomeyen in the middle of the tropical rainforest of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny central African petrostate. A ...
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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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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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Foreign aid freeze decimates investigative news outlets internationally

Protestors gather outside of USAID headquarters on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The agency’s abrupt shutdown left thousands unemployed and launched U.S. foreign diplomacy and aid programs into ...
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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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How the IRS went soft on billionaires and corporate tax cheats

Michael Welu worked at the IRS for decades as a specialist in helping agents identify and investigate possible tax crimes. In an agency known for offices working in their own silos, Welu had the rare ...