A U.N. report lists new allegations of reprisals from two dozen countries including China, echoing findings of ICIJ’s #ChinaTargets, which revealed how suspected proxies for the Chinese government surveilled or harassed activists at the U.N. headquarters.

From @tbij.bsky.social: An MP has demanded HMRC to release its official estimate of how much tax is being lost to offshore havens – information TBIJ discovered is currently being withheld by the authority. Read more:

Even as security cooperation with Israel expanded behind closed doors, Arab leaders denounced its war in Gaza, leaked U.S. files show. The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia said the Israeli campaign amounted to a genocide. Read more:

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Jian Guo, a naturalized German citizen, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison after he was found to have spied for China for nearly two decades. A co-defendant was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months.

Between 2018 and 2024, over 900 journalists from 15 countries in Latin America have been forced to leave their home countries and settle elsewhere for their protection, according to a recent report from the Latin American Journalism Review.

New data obtained by ICIJ and @nytimes.com provides the most comprehensive account yet showing how AR-15 ammo made at an Army-owned plant turns up at crime scenes more often than casings from any other manufacturer. buff.ly/51M8uZC

Amer Matar, the Syria Prisons Museum co-director and a former political prisoner whose testimony helped secure the first international war crimes conviction against a Syrian official, was held after attempting to leave the country. Read the story:

From February to March 2025, the number of detainees subjected to solitary confinement in immigration detention increased by an average of 6.5% per month, over six times the average recorded between April and November 2024 under the Biden administration.

Experts say that Treasury's plan to delete ownership information collected from U.S. companies will further gut the Corporate Transparency Act, a 2021 bipartisan law passed after ICIJ's #FinCENFiles to crack down on anonymous shell companies.

Former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is facing additional legal troubles in Jersey, where he is the subject of a criminal probe into allegations of corruption and money laundering, as The Guardian recently reported. Learn more:

A research study from Dartmouth College found that elites in both democratic and authoritarian countries are well-versed in financial secrecy tactics. To learn more, ICIJ spoke with assistant professor Herbert Chang, who co-authored the report.

#RussianSecrets, led by @ndr.de, found defense companies and maritime suppliers sold sonars, underwater robots, fibre optic cables, research vessels and other equipment worth over $50 million to a Cypriot entity secretly linked to a Russian defense contractor.

The Maria Moors Cabot Prize, awarded by @columbiajournalism.bsky.social, celebrates career excellence and reporting that deepens understanding across the Americas. This year, the winners share one thing in common: a track record of working with ICIJ. Learn more: buff.ly/DKPp58w

The latest annual U.N. report, detailing acts of intimidation and reprisals inside the international organization, underscores ICIJ’s reporting on how Beijing abuses international institutions in its campaign to silence critics abroad.

From @washingtonpost.com: Over past several years, U.K. officials tracked what they say is as an escalating campaign of surveillance and intimidation against Hong Kong dissidents living in Britain. The Hong Kong government has not bothered to hide its intent. buff.ly/5YqLveT

Five leaked CENTCOM PowerPoints detail the creation of what the U.S. military describes as the “Regional Security Construct,” which has been publicly acknowledged, but officials have not spoken about the extent of Israeli-Arab cooperation in those efforts.

Don't miss our ICIJ coordinators speaking next week! ICIJ reporter and Africa coordinator Micah Reddy will be discussing his recent investigation on Equatorial Guinea at the AIJC conference on Nov. 5. Check it out here: aijc.africa

A German Higher Regional Court verdict detailed how Jian Guo, a German naturalized citizen, sought to identify and expose Chinese political dissidents and leaked hundreds of European Parliament files to China while he was an assistant to a local politician.

From @merics.bsky.social: There is growing momentum among Western countries to take stronger action against transnational repression. However, Europe remains ill-prepared. Read the latest analysis citing ICIJ's #ChinaTargets investigation:

In Peru, two journalists were murdered and 180 assaults against journalists and media outlets were recorded as of July of this year. The country's press association found that public officials are the main aggressors. Learn more:

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An investigation by the Russian branch of Transparency International published earlier this month, exposes more of the infrastructure underpinning the crypto platform Garantex and Grinex, purported by U.S. Treasury to be Garantex’s successor.

A recent study based on data from ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks Database found that elites around the world rely on specific secrecy tactics to obscure and shield their wealth. Read our Q&A with the study's author Herbert Chang: buff.ly/ykpTcYE

ICIJ's Bulgarian partner BIRD.BG found that Russian state-owned enterprise Goszagranostranost allegedly violated U.S. sanctions and EU regulations by organizing a secret auction to sell a property in Sofia, according to leaked files obtained by ICIJ. buff.ly/qIXfkFg

On Sept. 15, Amer Matar launched the Syria Prisons Museum, a virtual museum dedicated to uncovering crimes in prisons under former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and preserving the memory of those who were unjustly detained. He was recently detained.

The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which gave ICE a historic $75 billion in additional funding and quadrupled its detention budget, has increased the urgency of the findings in a recent Physicians for Human Rights report. Learn more:

The U.S. Treasury Department’s FinCEN announced last month that it plans to delete ownership information that U.S. companies submitted to the beneficial ownership database launched in January 2024. #FinCENFiles Read more:

From @article19.bsky.social: Over 100 undersigned organizations have come together to call for robust and strategic EU investment in free and independent media, stressing that Europe’s democratic resilience depends on support for public interest information.

From NRK: Norway's Police Security Service has decided to launch an investigation into Kongsberg for possible violations of export control rules following the #RussianSecrets investigation by a group of ICIJ partners. Read more:

Our #RussianSecrets investigation is finally out. It shows that Russia is protecting its nuclear weapons in the Arctic with Western technology. To this end, an underwater listening system called Harmony has been created in recent years. THREAD

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Russia is using sensitive high-tech equipment it secretly acquired from European, U.S. and Asian companies to protect its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic, according to the new cross-border investigation #RussianSecrets. buff.ly/Djl8vrW

Unsere Recherche mit int. Partnern zeigt, wie Russland jahrelang Spitzentechnologie aus EU-Staaten und u.a. den USA und Japan beschafft hat, um ein Unterwasser-Spähsystem zum Schutz seiner Atomwaffen aufzubauen. #RussianSecrets

Via een postbusbedrijf op Cyprus en met schepen en technologie uit onder meer Nederland heeft Rusland in stilte een geheim wapen gebouwd: een onderwaternetwerk dat zijn kernonderzeeërs beschermt en NAVO-schepen kan uitschakelen. pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/voor-miljoen...

➡️ Exklusiv: Unsere Recherche kann den vermutlichen Standort des geheimen Unterwasser-Spähnetzwerkes "Harmonie" eingrenzen. Russland schützt so seine Atomwaffen. Über ein Firmennetzwerk wurden dafür jahrelang Geräte aus dem Westen beschafft. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Russland hat jahrelang Spitzentechnologie aus EU-Staaten wie Deutschland sowie den USA, Japan und Kanada beschafft, um ein Unterwasser-Spähsystem zum Schutz seiner Atomwaffen aufzubauen. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

A Chelsea Football Club's statement said that regulatory violations were reported to the Football Association during its 2022 takeover of the club. The new owners have pointed to their “unprecedented transparency” amid the improper conduct allegations.

In 2021, the Pandora Papers revealed that the Legion of Christ organization stashed nearly $300 million overseas in the wake of a Vatican investigation into sexual abuse allegations. Check out the latest HBO series, "Marcial Maciel: the Wolf of God":

From @newyorker.com: Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer and the head of the Kinahan Organized Crime Group, lives a strikingly public life in Dubai. Why isn’t he in prison? buff.ly/wXduPjE

ICYMI: Anyone can download Datashare for free and work with their own documents on their computer with the local version of the software. Check out the platform's recent relaunch and new streamlined design here: buff.ly/gH4OONb

From In-Cyprus: Law enforcement authorities in Cyprus have struck significant blows against organized crime following the implementation of FBI expert recommendations to create a multi-agency strike team, according to a recent government report.

A recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration notes the termination letters for IRS probationary workers were written for the agency by the Office of Personnel Management and its cuts failed to follow internal IRS procedures. buff.ly/vTecuEQ

A new UN report echoes findings from @icij.org's China Leaks investigations: Beijing’s repression of human-rights activists extends far beyond its borders. icij.org/investigatio...

ICYMI: The "Systems of Secrecy: Journalism, Power and the Policy Gaps that Enable Corruption" panel with ICIJ's Executive Director Gerard Ryle is about to start. Join the livestream here: fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/s...

ICIJ reporter and partnership coordinator @scillaa.bsky.social will be a speaker at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social's World Congress and Media Innovation Festival #IPIWoCo25 in Vienna this month! Don't miss the “The Future of Investigative Collaboration” panel on Oct. 25.

The four Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners were celebrated earlier this month at a ceremony. “This year’s sweep by ICIJ-connected journalists speaks volumes about the strength of our global network,” said ICIJ Executive Director Gerard Ryle. Learn more:

Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels, according to leaked U.S. files obtained by ICIJ and reviewed by The Washington Post.

From @reuters.com: Former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes said on Monday the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control had lifted sanctions imposed on him two years ago for his involvement in acts of alleged corruption, which he has denied. #PandoraPapers buff.ly/YoFSZ06

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