The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a global network established in 1997 by the Center for Public Integrity, based in Washington, D.C. This organization consists of 165 investigative journalists from more than 65 countries, collaborating on critical issues such as cross-border crime, corruption, and holding those in power accountable. For over 25 years, the ICIJ has brought to light various cases, including the smuggling and tax evasion practices of major tobacco corporations in 2000, the activities of organized crime groups, and investigations into private military contractors, asbestos firms, and climate change advocates. They also made headlines by revealing important information about contracts related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Peru’s former president and wife sentenced to 15 years in prison for Odebrecht-linked money laundering scheme

1 week ago | icij.org | Isabella Cota

A top court in Peru ruled on Tuesday that former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, will serve a 15-year prison sentence for illegally accepting payment from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil

1 week ago | icij.org | Thomas Rowley |Dean Starkman

Kazakhstan is claiming that a group of international oil companies have been taking a staggering 98% of oil revenue, after modest royalty payments, from the country’s massive Kashagan oil field, according to a confidential interim ruling in a $160 billion arbitration claim seen by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Cambodian ‘blood antiquities’ documentary draws on ICIJ’s Pandora Papers reporting

2 weeks ago | icij.org | Sam Ellefson

A new documentary explores the clandestine trafficking networks that exploited child soldiers to plunder Cambodian temples, ultimately delivering ancient treasures into the collections of elite Western museums and billionaires. “LOOT: A Story of Crime and Redemption,” which recently screened at the Cambodian International Film Festival in Phnom Penh, builds on Pandora Papers revelations about controversial British antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford.
Hundreds of millions more dollars recouped by governments after ICIJ investigations

3 weeks ago | icij.org | Jesús Escudero |Delphine Reuter

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 schemes.
As IFC delayed a damning report on a Liberian rubber plantation, the owner sold the business - ICIJ

3 weeks ago | icij.org | Ben Dooley

For over a year, the World Bank’s private investment arm delayed the release of a damning internal report detailing its failure to adequately address alleged land grabs, environmental pollution and other serious harms at a rubber company it financed in Liberia.
The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38 percent of its employees since January, new data shows

3 weeks ago | icij.org | Spencer Woodman

The IRS’s unit that audits billionaires and other ultrawealthy individuals has lost 38 percent of its workforce this year amid the Trump administration’s cost-cutting drive, according to new data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The office, known as Global High Wealth, employed 353 people before the cuts and has experienced a far higher rate of terminations compared to the IRS as a whole, the new data shows.
Seychelles offshore services provider highlighted in the Pandora Papers shuts down operations

4 weeks ago | icij.org | Sam Ellefson

A Russian-owned, Seychelles-based, offshore services provider that created hundreds of anonymous shell companies for Russian oligarchs, tax dodgers and money launderers has lost its operating licenses following a cross-border investigation by Finance Uncovered, Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC.
ICIJ member’s new book explores unexamined but influential WWII spy

1 month ago | icij.org | Sam Ellefson

A National Football League player. A lawyer to 20th-century media celebrities. A Washington insider. And an American spy who helped orchestrate one of the largest foreign espionage operations ever conducted in the United States. Ernest Cuneo — a figure in American history who has, until now, mostly flown under the radar — embodied all these personas.
Unable to stay in the country, unable to return home: Reporters face grim prospects after latest Trump cuts

1 month ago | icij.org | Nicole Sadek

Reporters for Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America could be forced to return to repressive countries where their work puts them at risk of persecution and imprisonment following an executive order from President Donald Trump last week. The March 14 order, which gutted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federal agency that oversees the three outlets, also endangers their journalists who are currently jailed in several countries.
Russia’s ghost ships haunt Libya

1 month ago | icij.org | David Kenner

Last spring, a Cameroonian-flagged cargo ship, the Barbaros, steamed through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait. The Barbaros had begun its journey in Russia and was en route to a port in eastern Libya controlled by a warlord whose forces have been accused of crimes against humanity by a U.N. fact-finding mission. As the Barbaros crossed the Bosphorus in April, an eagle-eyed observer — Yörük Işık, who runs a consultancy analyzing maritime activity on the strait — got a view of its cargo.