MGCIJ shares South Africans’ widespread dismay at the National Assembly’s adoption of the Protection of State Information Bill (The Secrecy Bill).
Long-running Promotion of Access to Information (Paia) request heads to court.
Hideout for fraudsters, despots and spies
Trusted service provider blends into the invisible offshore world. The story of Portcullis TrustNet and its birthplace — the Cook Islands — is in many ways the story of the offshore system itself. It’s a largely invisible world, a curious blend of the parochial and the global that’s made up of the minor personalities and […]
British Virgin Islands firm kept doing business with shady characters even as regulators prodded it to obey anti-money-laundering laws The tangled trail of the Magnitsky Affair, a case that’s strained U.S.-Russian relations and blocked American adoptions of Russian orphans, snakes through an offshore haven in the Caribbean. The death of Moscow tax attorney Sergei Magnitsky […]
A worldwide network of "nominee directors" has helped hide real people behind offshore companies.
British Virgin Islands firm kept doing business with shady characters even as regulators prodded it to obey anti-money-laundering laws.
Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy. A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over. The secret records […]