A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning exposé sent shockwaves through the offshore world, spawning criminal probes and bringing down governments.
British journalist and author Oliver Bullough discusses his new investigative book on global illicit finance — and how to expose money laundering’s growing influence.
Investigators explain how they found a sanctioned crypto exchange in Russia resurrected itself under a new name and continued to attract new clients and move money across borders.
An expert panel at GIJC25 described the multi-layered criminal infrastructures behind online gambling, and offered practical tactics to help reporters expose those networks.
A recent IRE conference panel focused on new money laundering strategies that make hiding illicit assets increasingly difficult to track.
How did three reporters investigate complex financial stories featuring Nigerian billionaires, Eurasian oligarchs, and the head of Lebanon’s central bank?
The vast majority of people who own properties are not engaged in any misconduct or possible criminal behavior. But land deals or real estate purchases made with inexplicable funding sources can be a telltale sign of corruption.
Investigative journalists have long used information about airplanes to uncover corruption, follow wars, track government officials, and point out the levels of greenhouse gases emitted. GIJN has now revised and updated its reporting guide to planespotting and tracking flights around the world.
Pavla Holcová is an investigative journalist and founder of the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism, an independent outlet that does cross-border investigations on organized crime and its impact on the Czech Republic (Czechia) and Slovakia.
There is one key reason why reporters should start learning about cryptocurrencies, according to the OCCRP’s Jan Strozyk, and that is because their investigative targets are already using them to hide their crimes and finance their future operations.
