International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Europe sanctioned crypto exchange HTX. Experts say the firm is deploying tactics that could blunt the impact.

The exchange is rapidly generating new accounts in a way that can confuse authorities and compliance officials, experts told ICIJ.
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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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Peru’s former president and wife sentenced to 15 years in prison for Odebrecht-linked money laundering scheme

Peru’s former President, Ollanta Humala, arrives at his sentence hearing at a court in Lima on April 15, 2025. A top court in Peru on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, ...
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Under industry pressure, IRS division blocked agents from using new law to stop wealthy tax dodgers

In early 2010, U.S. lawmakers gave what was supposed to be a gift to IRS agents with the grueling job of ensuring the wealthiest people and largest corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Tucked ...
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Firm related to sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex is a partner of Moscow gang leader and has links to Kremlin-controlled Rosneft

A firm with multiple connections to sanctioned virtual currency exchange Garantex co-owns a debt-collection business with a convicted gang leader and has ties to Rosneft, the Kremlin-tied oil firm, a ...
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Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies’ Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg

Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny ...
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Law enforcement, banks warn of money laundering gaps in major US crypto bill

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Law enforcement associations, anti-corruption advocates and a major banking group are warning that a new bill aimed at regulating the United States’ ...
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Watchdog report finds overwhelming majority of IRS employees fired by DOGE for performance had no documented issues

Less than 1% of the more than 7,000 probationary workers fired from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service earlier this year on performance grounds were actually documented underachievers, according to a ...
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US court grants IRS request to probe clients of offshore finance giant

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into possible tax violations by clients of a prominent offshore services provider that operates across many of the world’s ...
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Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax

Former President Donald Trump and Newsmax Media CEO Christopher Ruddy have been tightly linked in conservative circles. A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in Newsmax, ...
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Dubai property portfolio calls into question effectiveness of sanctions on Kinahan cartel leader, experts say

The Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, where Daniel Kinahan, inset left, and Caoimhe Robinson, inset right, were married in a lavish ceremony in 2017. In 2023, Caoimhe Robinson bought a 20,569-square-foot ...
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IRS criminal referrals to US prosecutors hit a 40-year low in 2024

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service sent fewer criminal cases to federal prosecutors in the 2024 fiscal year than at any point in more than 40 years, according to a review of federal data by the ...