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After the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of suspect cryptocurrency landed in Binance accounts, the exchange claimed illicit …
One year after the fall of former Syrian president Bashar Assad, a new leak shines a light on the brutality of Assad’s rule and the lengths his regime took to catalog the bodies of those killed during …
Cambodia’s central bank ordered financial services conglomerate Huione Group to shut down its payment services arm last week, following a slew of global controversies and increasing pressure on the …
What is the Damascus Dossier investigation? The Damascus Dossier is a cross-border investigation revealing harrowing new details about one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st …
VIDEO WATCH: Damascus Dossier exposes the Assad regime’s killing machine Journalists from around the world have joined forces to uncover harrowing new details about one of the most brutal state-run …
J ournalists from around the world have joined forces to uncover harrowing new details about one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st century: the regime of former Syrian president …
H idden within a drab Damascus shopping center, at the end of an unlit fourth-floor hallway, is the unmarked office of Shorouk for Protection, Guarding and Security Services. A sign informs visitors …
A man lies on a metal surface — emaciated, dead. He is photographed at multiple angles: up close, his chipped, yellow teeth glowing; from the side, his cloudy eyes like frosted glass; from afar, his …
T haer al-Najjar sat in a cramped basement office in a Damascus hotel, his hands trembling as he glanced down at a single piece of paper. Only the whirring of a ceiling fan filled the silence. …
For Brad Thorne, a police detective in Boise, Idaho, a single string of letters and numbers epitomizes how a sinister digital underworld relies on USDT, a popular cryptocurrency also known as tether. …
A Swiss lawyer and former executive of Mossack Fonseca, the embattled Panamanian law firm at the center of ICIJ’s Panama Papers investigation, will face court in Germany next year, according to news …
The Coin Laundry , the latest investigation from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, brought together journalists from more than 35 countries to expose dirty money flowing into …
A n increasing number of governments are starting to shift their investment policies to include digital assets. The largest centralized exchanges, key intermediaries in the cryptocurrency world, …
The founding director of Eswatini’s Farmers Bank has accused Swazi Bridge, a news outlet operating in exile, of defamation in a nearly $10 million lawsuit press freedom advocates have labeled …
Dutch lawyer Marius Hupkes isn’t afraid of crossing borders to investigate criminal networks. He once flew across the Atlantic to Suriname to track down a key witness in a complex murder case. But …
W e all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we’re living …
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging member states to confront efforts by authoritarian regimes to coerce, control or silence political opponents and dissidents living in Europe. …
It was March 2016 and Paul Farrell, then a reporter at Guardian Australia , had agreed to meet an anonymous source. He had been reporting on immigration for several years but still, when he was …
In cities across Australia in 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world, the number 432 was everywhere – displayed on banners at rallies and at marches. “That number didn’t exist …
News Corp Australia is producing 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence, executive chair Michael Miller has revealed. Miller told the World News Media Congress in Taipei that a …
A German court this week sentenced a former political aide featured in ICIJ’s China Targets investigation to more than four years in prison after finding that he spied for China for nearly two …
From Mexico to Puerto Rico, Brazil to Miami, the winners of the 2025 Maria Moors Cabot Prize share one thing in common: a track record of working with ICIJ. The four prize winners — all women for the …
Five Peruvian investigative media outlets are seeking to block a law they say threatens their ability to operate independently by expanding state oversight of nongovernmental organizations that …
Welcome to The Crunch! I’m Nick Evershed, Guardian Australia’s data editor, and today we are launching a new video series and newsletter , and bringing together our data, interactive and visual …
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch. In this week’s newsletter we are going hard on maps. We have a map based on a Billy Joel song, a Lego US election map and much more. For the non-map …
