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Complicit: Portuguese soldiers board a ship to Angola in 1961, the year the country’s war of independence started. It ended in 1975 after 500 years of colonial rule. But a civil war, funded by Cold War countries, then ensued, ravaging the country’s economy. (AFP)

Make corruption reporting meaningful

Critiques of corruption must explicitly disrupt corporate globalism, imperialism, racism, authoritarianism, militarism, elitism and sexism

Isabel dos Santos’s fortune appears to largely be a result of decades of looting facilitated by management consultant companies and other international enablers. (Gallo)

Laundering Isabel dos Santos

“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe who are willing to loot without conscience as…

Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of Angola’s former president.

Isabel dos Santos did not loot Angola alone

Once again, Western auditing and consulting firms shamelessly facilitated corruption on an international scale

Police officers stand guard next to a company list showing the Mossack Fonseca law firm outside their office in Panama City.

Panama Papers: Was Mossack Fonseca within its legal rights to keep mum?

The ethics of the Panamanian law firm are certainly questionable, but legally it only had to report any activity that raised obvious red flags.

Salmonella controls were the main sticking point in trade negotiations with the US

Panama Papers: Uganda foils company’s dogged bid to avoid tax

The battle to get oil business Heritage Oil and Gas to pay capital gains, which took Uganda four years to win, is a lesson to developing countries.

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PanamaLeaks: Scope narrows for the rich to hide offshore assets

Tax authorities globally are closing in on tax evasion and tax avoidance structures.

Marine Le Pen’s far right party

#PanamaLeaks: French far-right leader hid money

France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen has been implicated in the Panama Papers, and had a "sophisticated offshore system" to hide money.