Matei Rosca

Nov 22, 2024 | icij.org | Sydney Freedberg |Agustin Armendariz |Tanya Kozyreva |Matei Rosca

Western oil giants had a cash bonanza in their sights when they gathered in the small town of Farnborough, southwest of London, in October 2012. They were rushing to exploit one of the world’s richest and deepest oil fields: the 156-square-mile Tengiz reservoir in western Kazakhstan, more than four times the size of Paris and a mile deep, under a desert on the remote north coast of the Caspian Sea. Time was slipping by on the oil executives’ exclusive 40-year rights to develop the field.

Nov 4, 2024 | reporter.london | Matei Rosca

In collaboration with Roger Hamilton-MartinLONDON–Luxury newly-built apartments in prestigious neighbourhoods belong to companies linked to a Cambodia-based conglomerate alleged by a recent major journalistic investigation to be involved in serious crime, which it denies.

Oct 1, 2024 | icij.org | Matei Rosca

A new criminal case shines a fresh spotlight on the brothers' tactical use of multiple banks following earlier revelations by ICIJ about their secretive finances.

Aug 20, 2024 | icij.org | Matei Rosca

The United States has fallen behind other developed countries in curbing financial secrecy, surpassing Switzerland as the “international banking center of choice for corrupt transactions,” according to a new report from the University of Sussex.

Aug 1, 2024 | icij.org | Matei Rosca

Russian oligarch Petr Aven’s estate manager has agreed to forfeit more than $1 million, ending a lengthy investigation for allegedly dodging sanctions imposed after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. A judge Monday signed off on the agreement between the estate manager Stephen Gater and the U.K. National Crime Agency. The agency alleged that efforts to move money held for “the benefit of Petr Aven” — but not in Aven’s name — in multiple accounts as well as some transactions violated the sanctions.