Articles by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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Defying Angola and Interpol, Isabel dos Santos Entrenches Herself on Dubai Waterfront
Nicole Sadek, Scilla Alecci and Karrie Kehoe | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The eldest daughter of Angola’s former autocrat has found cover in the United Arab Emirates, where she, her mother and a business associate are linked to multiple properties, Dubai Unlocked reveals.
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Luanda Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Faces Fresh Charges Despite Amnesty from Papal Visit
Matei Rosca | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The source of the Luanda Leaks and of another exposé that rocked the global soccer industry faces 377 new charges and the prospect of another trial, despite an anticipated amnesty.
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Director ‘Mismanagement’ Enabled Isabel dos Santos to Illegally Divert Millions, Dutch Court Finds
Fergus Shiel and Karlijn Kuijpers | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The daughter of Angola’s former authoritarian president siphoned 52.6 million euros from Angola’s state oil company into a business she controlled.
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Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
Fergus Shiel and Micael Pereira | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – The daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos was the subject of the ICIJ 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation. Sources say the warrant relates to allegedly corrupt dealings exposed.
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Criminals, Terror Financiers, Arms Traffickers, Drug Runners Infiltrated Honorary Consul Ranks
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Shadow Diplomats: Accused terror financiers, arms traffickers and drug runners among hundreds of rogue diplomats, global investigation reveals. Honorary consuls are meant to foster ties between countries. But criminals and others accused of exploiting the position have infiltrated their ranks.
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Trafficking Inc.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
28 Oct 2022 – An ICIJ investigation examines networks of companies, people and business practices that draw profit from cross-border labor trafficking and sex trafficking.
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The Uber Files: Inside a Global Lobbying Machine
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – The Uber Files investigation reveals how the ride-hailing juggernaut would “embrace the chaos” as it stormed into new markets around the world, driven by assertive tactics, a phalanx of lobbyists and helped by powerful friends.
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The Uber Files
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – The secret story of how the tech giant won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion.
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Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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Pandora Papers: Secret Real Estate Purchases Are a Driving Force behind the Offshore Economy
Margot Gibbs and Agustin Armendariz | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – No longer content with Miami condos and London townhouses, investors are pouring money into properties in all corners of the world, fueling inequality and driving up prices, Pandora Papers investigation reveals.
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Pandora Papers: An Offshore Data Tsunami
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The ICIJ spent more than a year structuring, researching and analyzing the more than 11.9 million records in the 2.94 terabyte Pandora Papers leak: over 330 politicians, 130 Forbes billionaires, celebrities, fraudsters, drug dealers, royal family members, and leaders of religious groups. The task involved journalists, technology and time.
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From Colonization to Kleptocracy: A History of Angola and Isabel dos Santos
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – Our visual explainer shows you how Africa’s richest woman rose amid a country divided by war and rich in natural resources. Born in 1973 in Azerbaijan, Isabel is the only child of José Eduardo dos Santos, then an exiled guerrilla fighter, and Tatiana Kukanova, a Russian, whom the future Angolan president met while studying petroleum engineering at the Azerbaijan Oil Academy in Baku. The marriage didn’t last, and Isabel was raised by her mother, spending some time in Luanda and her teen and young-adult years in London, where she attended the exclusive St. Paul’s girls’ school.
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Read the Luanda Leaks Documents
Will Fitzgibbon and Mago Torres | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – We’ve published emails, contracts, organizational charts, meeting videos, loan agreements and more from our investigation into Isabel dos Santos.
→ read full articleLuanda Leaks: How Africa’s Richest Woman Exploited Family Ties, Shell Companies and inside Deals to Build an Empire
Sydney P. Freedberg, Scilla Alecci, Will Fitzgibbon, Douglas Dalby and Delphine Reuter - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
20 Jan 2020
19 Jan 2020 – Isabel dos Santos made a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people, Luanda Leaks reveals. She spun a story the world wanted to believe: a self-made billionaire who had risen in a male-dominated business world in an African country ravaged by civil war and poverty.
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Nicaragua’s Media Uprising Challenges President Ortega
Sasha Chavkin – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ,
3 Sep 2018
As Ortega’s repression grows increasingly brutal, the local media has become more collaborative and independent.
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Europe Responds: ‘If the law allows this, we need to change the law.’
Cecile S. Gallego – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Dec 2017
28 Nov 2017 – A European Parliament committee has grilled Paradise Papers reporters as members grapple with how to claw back millions being lost to new, elaborate tax-reducing maneuvers.
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Wealth Inequality ‘Crisis’ as Richest 1 Percent Account for Half the World’s Wealth
Spencer Woodman – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 – The world’s top 1 percent held 45.5 percent of all household wealth in 2000. Now, they hold 50.1 percent, according to Credit Suisse’s annual Global Wealth Report. The report highlights that Ultra High Net Worth Individuals – people who are worth more than $50 million – as being the driving force behind the gap. This group of wealth holders has grown five-fold since 2000.
→ read full articleAbout the Paradise Papers Investigation
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
5 Nov 2017 – The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 media partners explored 13.4 million leaked files from a combination of offshore service providers and the company registries of some of the world’s most secretive countries. The files were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
→ read full articleNew Panama Papers: Secret Offshore Deals Deprive Africa of Billions in Natural Resource Dollars
Will Fitzgibbon - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
1 Aug 2016
New Panama Papers Series Exposes Secret Deals in Africa – Politicians and mining, oil and gas interests benefit from secrecy and dubious multimillion-dollar transfers.
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.
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Will Fitzgibbon - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ,
11 Apr 2016
Firm helps CIA operatives and other characters — real or fanciful — from the world of espionage set up offshore companies to obscure their dealings.
• Spy chiefs, secret agents and alleged CIA contractors among those to use offshore companies
• Secret agents used offshore companies to, among other things, own golf courses
• Octopussy, Goldfinger, SkyFall, GoldenEye, Moonraker among offshore company names used by Mossack Fonseca
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption: The Panama Papers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens.
→ read full articleExplore the Panama Papers Key Figures
Rigoberto Carvajal, Mar Cabra, Álvaro Ortiz and Fernando Blat - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – The 2.6 terabyte trove of data at the core of this investigation contains nearly 40 years of records, and includes information about more than 210,000 companies in 21 offshore jurisdictions. Read more about the data and our methodology.
→ read full articleBathed in Blood – Evicted and Abandoned in Honduras
Sasha Chavkin - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
15 Jun 2015
World Bank’s Business-Lending Arm Backed Palm Oil Producer amid Deadly Land War
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Swiss Leaks is a collaborative investigation that exposes how the Swiss branch of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals around the world. Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities.
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Alison Fitzgerald and Marina Walker Guevara – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
15 Dec 2014
A new leak of confidential documents expands the list of big companies seeking secret tax deals in Luxembourg, exposing tax-saving maneuvers by American entertainment icon The Walt Disney Co., politically controversial Koch Industries Inc. and 33 other companies.
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Dai Qing – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
8 Sep 2014
A self-confessed “accidental” reporter, Dai Qing has been making waves in Chinese media and society for more than three decades with fearless story-telling and outspoken opinions.
→ read full articleTracking Cross-Border Weapons Trade with Youtube
Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
25 Aug 2014
How German reporters revealed questionable international export practices of a major German arms manufacturer – and how a YouTube video helped break open the case.
→ read full article‘I’m Not a Spy:’ Reporters Reveal Surveillance Fears
Hamish Boland-Rudder - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
11 Aug 2014
U.S. government surveillance programs are scaring away sources, making journalists feel like criminals and spies, and impacting the public’s access to quality news reporting, according to a new report released today [28 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleLobbyists Push Use of Deadly Asbestos in Developing Nations
Jim Morris - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,
26 Jul 2010
A global network of lobby groups has spent nearly $100 million since the mid-1980s to preserve the international market for asbestos, a known carcinogen that’s taken millions of lives and is banned or restricted in 52 countries, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found in a nine-month investigation. Backed by public and private money and aided by scientists and friendly governments, the groups helped facilitate the sale of 2.2 million tons of asbestos last year, mostly in developing nations. Anchored by the Montreal-based Chrysotile Institute, the network stretches from New Delhi to Mexico City to the city of Asbest in Russia’s Ural Mountains. Its message is that asbestos can be used safely under “controlled” conditions.
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