Members of Parliament have called on the newly elected government to enforce a law against transnational repression following ...

Xinjiang police records detail a yearslong Chinese government push to silence the news outlet, which the Trump administration ...

A package of reforms meant to help the country clamp down on sanctions evasion has repeatedly faltered amid pushback from the ...

The international award honors investigative journalism that shines a light on corruption, bribery and other illicit ...

On a chilly afternoon in the spring of 2021, while awaiting an extradition hearing in Bordeaux, France, Businessman H. received an unexpected call from an old friend and business partner. Jack Ma was ...

A U.S. cargo plane lands on the runway of the Manas airbase in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Inset: Military contractor Douglas Edelman, who pleaded guilty in one of the U.S.’s largest ever tax evasion cases.

Michael Welu worked at the IRS for decades as a specialist in helping agents identify and investigate possible tax crimes. In an agency known for offices working in their own silos, Welu had the rare ...

Venezuela’s “boligarchs” moved vast sums of public money out of the country. Banks in Europe and the U.S. played a pivotal role in draining Venezuela’s wealth. They reported more than $4.8 billion in ...

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Treasury hired an economist named Owen Zidar as a contractor to help a team of government officials examine a problem of growing urgency. The ultrawealthy were ...

A magazine spread featuring a lavish San Francisco mansion included a photo of a lush central courtyard with several empty pedestals off to one side. The pedestals weren’t actually empty, though. The ...

Six days before Rafelín Martínez Castillo was sent flying from a trailer truck transporting him and 168 other migrants across Mexico, he was sanding wood in his cousin’s modest workshop in the ...

In the village of Bungmati, Nepal, above an ancient spring, stand two stone shrines and a temple. One of those shrines has a large hole where a statue of Shreedhar Vishnu, the Hindu protector god, ...