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How we use machine learning to find passports and unlock one key to offshore secrecy

By icij

Passports are often the key to unlocking secret ownership of offshore companies and trusts, but finding them among millions of leaked documents can be challenging.To...

How a Pentagon contractor built a global empire — and a massive tax evasion scheme

By icij

A case that the Justice Department has described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history culminated on Wednesday with businessman Douglas...

Hundreds of millions more dollars recouped by governments after ICIJ investigations

By icij

Nine years later, the groundbreaking Panama Papers investigation continues to inspire governments around the world to chase badly needed revenue lost offshore to tax evasion...

Millions in Covid relief funds went to shadowy companies registered at a Wyoming storefront that hundreds of thousands of firms used as an address

By icij

Nestled at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, Sheridan, Wyoming, is the sort of place where an out-of-towner can pick up a pair of cowboy...

EU sanctions Russian crypto exchange Garantex

By icij

The Council of the European Union added Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex to their latest sanctions package last week for being “closely associated with EU-sanctioned Russian...

The George Polk Award rewards the outstanding collaboration of 60 journalists from 25 news organizations* and 18 countries, who teamed up over the course of…

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How the mob built its empire in the US, with former Gambino crime family associate Louis Ferrante

By Globalinitiative

For a long time, the words ‘organized crime’ conjured up images of the American mafia, the Five Families of New York, with notorious figures such...

A George Polk Award for Regina Martínez and the Cartel Project

By Forbiddenstories

The George Polk Award rewards the outstanding collaboration of 60 journalists from 25 news organizations* and 18 countries, who teamed up over the course of...

Head of Russia’s Global Malware Network ‘Snake’ Cut Off by Five Eyes Alliance

By OCCRP

TwitterAuthorities across the Five Eyes intelligence alliance - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States - announced that a multi-national cyber...

‘Clan Farruku’ Arrests Highlight Albanians’ Latin America Cocaine Connections

By gangstersinc

Spanish authorities have dismantled an Albanian criminal group that trafficked cocaine from Latin America across Europe, showcasing the increasing importance of Albanian crime rings to...

Economy in focus: Kosovo

By gangstersinc

Resilient to many of the negative effects of the war in Ukraine, Kosovo’s economy grew in 2022 and is expected to continue to grow through...

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A George Polk Award for Regina Martínez and the Cartel Project