Five years ago today, ICIJ and more than 100 media partners around the globe published the #PanamaPapers — a massive investigation on the rogue offshore finance industry that continues to change the world. bit.ly/3sRmi9p
Hundreds of tax probes and investigations were launched.
"I started working on the case basically from the minute you all broke the story," a former U.S. prosecutor who was part of the team that led America's legal response to the #PanamaPapers says. bit.ly/3fEaWSA
But after governments fell, new laws were written, criminals were prosecuted, and more than $1.36 billion in unpaid taxes, fines and penalties were recouped, the fight against offshore financial secrecy and chicanery emboldened by #PanamaPapers goes on. bit.ly/3dwcmf5
Join us on April 15 for a free event with documentary filmmaker @Winter, #PanamaPapers journalists Emilia Díaz-Struck, @b_obermayer of @sz, and Rita Vásquez of @prensacom, who will share their experiences with the investigation and discuss what comes next.bit.ly/39F84ku
This month, we'll be keeping you up-to-date with the latest news from all our investigations and taking you behind-the-scenes of five years of #PanamaPapers impacts, lessons and insights.
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👑🧵/ Last night's #Megxit interview, in which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share details of life after being financially cut off from the monarchy, renews attention on the royal family's enormous wealth, private estates, and how those assets are shielded from public view.
2/ Last month, @guardian revealed that Queen Elizabeth successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in the 1970s in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public as part of the 'Queen's consent' investigation. bit.ly/3cZkmXv
3/ In 2017, ICIJ's #ParadisePapers investigation revealed that Queen Elizabeth's private estate, the Duchy of Lancaster, indirectly invested in a rent-to-own loan company accused of predatory tactics via the Cayman Islands. bit.ly/2ODFIPG
NEW: Together with @BuzzFeedNews and 108 other media organizations we reveal the #FinCENFiles – our latest cross-border investigation.
Using super secretive bank documents and months of reporting, we expose how banks fail to stop dirty money flows. bit.ly/3kDpxwN
#FinCENFiles reveals $2 trillion worth of payments – revealing big-name banks (you’ve heard of them) moved suspicious money even after promising officials they would fix money laundering controls.
These global giants have moved masses of dirty money tied to mobsters, fraudsters and corrupt regimes – sometimes it's for people they can’t identify.
And – you can explore some of the transactions we found here. bit.ly/2ZUGRVV
– Access to data is restricted
– Information is scarce
– COVID-19 makes it harder to meet with contacts
– Leaders and officials are taunting reporters
– Newsrooms and resources are shrinking.
All month we're talking with our team from Chile to Tanzania, Russia to Malaysia - and beyond.
We want to highlight the hurdles these reporters overcome to deliver global-scale investigations.
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NEW: Africa’s richest woman @isabelaangola claims to be a self-made billionaire. Today, we reveal the inside story of how she made her fortune while leaving #Angola one of the poorest countries on earth.
Today, we're adding an extra 15,000 safety reports from 20 new countries to our International Medical Device Database. Our database now covers 46 countries and comes one year after we, alongside 58 media partners, first published #ImplantFiles. bit.ly/37yx762
We're publishing the data in a bid to bring more #transparency to the medical device industry.
We hope it will become a resource for patients who, in many parts of the world, don’t otherwise have access to these types of reports. #ImplantFiles