It is the first such case filed since the Trump administration designated several of the criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations in 2025.
In 2025, China was the most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, a new Freedom House report found.
Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we investigated.
Over a decade after the ICIJ investigation, a German court found the Swiss lawyer guilty of enabling a tax loss of about $15 million.
In hearings around the world, politicians and experts called for inquiries into inequities surrounding Merck's anti-cancer drug Keytruda.
In a yearlong investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reporters from more than 37 countries found the cancer drug’s high price impacts patients and health systems differently.
Kinahan cartel wars with rivals have been linked to at least 20 murders across four European countries, according to Europol.
Despite the president’s plan to lower prescription medicine costs, the price of many of the most expensive drugs — including several immunotherapy treatments — have continued to rise.
The pharmaceutical giant has built a fortress of patents, traded in secrecy and relentlessly lobbied to guard its revenue kingpin Keytruda.
Desperate patients — and even hospitals — have become unwitting customers of fake Keytruda, with potentially fatal consequences.
As bureaucratic fights to access Keytruda drag on for years, some patients die waiting.
Explore the U.S. patents Merck deploys to stymie competition and keep revenues for its blockbuster cancer drug flowing as long as possible.
Bringing together journalists from around the world, Cancer Calculus exposes how families are struggling to access Merck's groundbreaking cancer treatment, and how health care systems are straining under the drug's high price.
What is Keytruda? Why is it so expensive? The key findings of the Cancer Calculus, and more.
How Merck keeps the price of its lifesaving cancer drug, Keytruda, sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide.
On the 10-year anniversary of the Panama Papers, journalists and a Nobel-wining economist share their recollections of how the story unfolded, and how the investigation still resonates today.
ICIJ's reporting in 2025 showed how ordinary systems that citizens rely on for protection were manipulated and exploited to help the powerful and malfeasant avoid accountability.
The estate of a Jewish art dealer has won a decade-long court battle over a $25 million painting whose ownership was exposed by secret financial documents obtained by ICIJ and its media partners.
A decade after the Panama Papers made headlines around the world, the investigation remains a milestone moment in the global push for financial equality and transparency.
See the recording of a live conversation between ICIJ's Gerard Ryle and tax expert Tove Maria Ryding, going behind the scenes of the groundbreaking investigation and exploring its global impact.
On the 10-year anniversary of the Panama Papers, journalists recall how it all happened, and how the investigation took the world by storm.
A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation sent a shock through the offshore world.
Ten years after the Panama Papers hit front pages around the world, ICIJ unpacks how the groundbreaking investigation came together, beginning with an unprecedented data leak.
Prosecutors are set to unseal "aggravated money laundering" charges against Klyuev in one of the most prominent cases tied to the alleged tax fraud scheme.
Reporting by The Toronto Star as part of ICIJ's Coin Laundry investigation found clusters of crypto services operating unlawfully.
Victim advocates fear the funds seized from the Prince Group’s founder will be stashed away for the U.S.’s new strategic cryptocurrency reserve.
The Premier League also handed the club a suspended transfer ban over the historical rule breaking.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said that governments have a duty to more closely monitor firearms manufacturers and put a stop to illegal trafficking.
The Interior Ministry acted days after local media reported that Chinese state actors in 2024 hacked the database of a police unit assigned to protecting Chinese dissidents.
A new bill backed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and three other Democrats came in response to an ICIJ and The New York Times investigation.
New data shows how a key office hammered by layoffs and cost-cutting referred at most two cases in fiscal year 2025.
The project, which aimed to expand protected environmental areas and boost tourism, was terminated in 2024 after allegations of human rights abuses.
The former Israeli intelligence officer’s spyware has helped some of the world’s most brutal regimes spy on journalists and political opponents.
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s lawsuit is the latest in a series of state legal actions against one of the world’s largest crypto ATM operators.
Researchers at the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation identify Hong Kong as a key hub in the illicit trade of Western military technology to Russia.
The number of IRS staff assigned to oversee anti-money laundering practices at the firms dropped to its lowest level in nearly decade.
Mexican officials shared the data in response to an investigation by ICIJ and media partners.
Drug syndicates have used .50-caliber ammunition produced at a plant owned by the U.S. Army and smuggled across the border in attacks on Mexican civilians and police.
Prosecutors accused former minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, who featured in the ICIJ-led Panama Papers investigation, of living a “life of luxury in London” fueled by corrupt Nigerian oil deals.
Canadian parliament voted to create the position over a year and a half ago to counter a rising threat of transnational repression.
Academic research shows that investigative reporting, NGO advocacy, and scholarly scrutiny pushed Chinese authorities from denial to dismantling parts of their mass detention system for Uyghurs.
Malawi’s government has promised a “fact-finding exercise” as the local community grows increasingly resentful of the mining venture’s unfulfilled development promises.
A new report shows how Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong have courted African elites and companies with tax breaks, light regulation, and secrecy.
The report cites ICIJ’s China Targets investigation and calls for improved coordination across the bloc.
The crypto exchange said it had addressed authorities' concerns, but an internal report has cast doubt on those claims, according to a new investigation by ICIJ media partners.
Authorities accused Anin and his former colleague Ekaterina Fomina of disseminating false information on the Russian Armed Forces.
As international authorities warn the public against investing in Vladimir Okhotnikov’s latest crypto scheme, specialized prosecutors in Portugal are investigating the Ukrainian influencer who helped promote his start-ups.
The abrupt cancellation of an independent Chinese film festival in New York reveals how Beijing and its proxies increasingly pressure critics abroad — a pattern documented by ICIJ and now drawing alarm at the United Nations and the European Parliament.
Reporters from 26 newsrooms across 20 countries uncovered new details about the Assad regime’s crimes — and how authorities are still seeking justice.
Partnerships with convenience stores and gas stations fueled the rapid growth of crypto ATM networks — creating a fertile hunting ground for fraudsters.
Analytics firm Chainalysis said a Binance report claiming illicit activity on the platform plummeted failed to factor in funds stolen through hacks and ransomware.
ICIJ and its partners organized and analyzed thousands of chilling photographs to assemble comprehensive victim lists and quantify the human toll behind a sensitive data leak.
Huione Pay, a key arm of Huione Group spotlighted in ICIJ’s Coin Laundry investigation, has been closed by Cambodia’s national bank and its assets liquidated.
A trove of leaked records provides new evidence of thousands of Assad regime killings — and a chance for closure for families.
Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.
For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates.
Journalists 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 Bashar Assad.
An exposé into Assad’s vast system for the detention, torture and murder of Syrian citizens — and the international forces that financed his regime.
Is the Damascus Dossier based on leaked documents? What are ICIJ’s most significant findings? These questions and more, answered.
At least $1.4 billion of its tokens passed through a crypto wallet linked to scams, hacks, and human trafficking.