#SwaziSecrets
, ICIJ’s latest investigation, reveals the role Eswatini may have played in southern Africa’s gold smuggling economy — and how weak anti-money laundering controls allow those close to the royal family to benefit from proximity to the king.
NEW:
#PandoraPapers
reveals the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else.
Brought to you by ICIJ and 600+ journalists, the largest collaboration in journalism history. 🧵
The
#PandoraPapers
unmask the covert owners of offshore companies, incognito bank accounts, private jets, yachts, mansions and famous artwork — providing more information than what’s usually available to law enforcement and cash-strapped governments.
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.
Read
#LuandaLeaks
:
📹:
@shirafu
The
#PandoraPapers
contain 12M documents from 14 service providers.
Our investigation uncovers the financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, 330+ politicians and public officials, and a global list of fugitives, con artists and murderers.
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.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his family have been secretly accumulating a fortune for years behind corporate veils in Panama,
@WillFitzgibbon
found in the
#PandoraPapers
When he became PM, Imran Khan promised a new era in Pakistan free of corruption. But the
#PandoraPapers
reveal that key members of Khan's inner circle have secretly owned an array of companies and trusts holding millions of dollars of hidden wealth.
• More than 11.9M confidential files
• More than 600 journalists
• 150 news outlets
• 2 years of reporting
The
#PandoraPapers
offer insights into why governments and global organizations have made little headway in ending offshore financial abuses.
🔴 A cricket celebrity turned politician, Imran Khan promised Pakistan a corruption-free era after the
#PanamaPapers
.
Now prime minister, the
#PandoraPapers
show key members of his inner circle have secretly owned companies and trusts holding millions.
Of the more than 300 politicians and public officials unearthed in the
#PandoraPapers
, we profiled more than 50 of the biggest names – and their secret offshore holdings — in the Power Players interactive. 👇
The
#PandoraPapers
is not just our biggest investigation ever, it’s our biggest collaboration ever: 600+ journalists in 117 countries and territories!
You can follow our partners here 👇
🔴 Konstantin Ernst, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “unofficial minister of propaganda”
He used offshore secrecy to obscure how he benefited from a deal to buy and develop public assets — then valued at nearly half a billion dollars — at a discount.
• 35 current and former world leaders
• 330+ politicians and public officials
• A global list of fugitives, con artists and murderers.
We've uncovered their financial secrets in the
#PandoraPapers
: The biggest journalism partnership in history.
The
#PandoraPapers
is the most expansive leak of tax haven files in history and reveals the secret offshore holdings of more than 300 politicians and public officials from more than 90 countries and territories.
Here's a look at the Power Players 👉
The US Supreme Court has stripped the World Bank of its legal immunity, opening the door for lawsuits against the organization. One plaintiff in the case represented a fishing community in India whose story featured in our
#EvictedAbandoned
investigation
The
#PandoraPapers
include some of the most powerful figures in the world, including:
🔴 Jordan’s King Abdullah II — who secretly purchased 14 luxury homes, worth more than $106M, in the U.S. and the U.K. through shell companies registered in tax havens.
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso is under investigation for tax fraud and Europe’s parliament rebuked financial secrecy in the United States, marking the latest in a string of high profile reactions this week to the
#PandoraPapers
.
🔴 Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
The
#PandoraPapers
show that Kenyatta’s family has been secretly accumulating a personal fortune behind offshore corporate veils for years.
A NEW GLOBAL INVESTIGATION: Health authorities have failed to protect millions worldwide from poorly tested implants that can sicken, maim and kill, the very people they were designed to help.
#ImplantFiles
#BREAKING
: Chile’s national prosecutor’s office announces a criminal investigation against President Sebastián Piñera following
#PandoraPapers
revelations on his business affairs.
Opposition parties are also taking steps that could lead to his impeachment.
Switzerland has been a hub of financial secrecy since the 1930s. The
#PandoraPapers
reveal ways businesses like Fidinam exploit gaps in the country’s regulatory system to help rich and powerful set up secretive companies in tax havens.
🔴 Czech Republic PM Andrej Babis faces reelection this week. The
#PandoraPapers
reveal he moved $22M through offshore companies to buy a lavish estate while keeping his ownership secret.
See our partners at
@investigace_cz
ask him about it 📹
NEW: Global
#PandoraPapers
fallout continues.
🇪🇨 Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso's offshore finances will be investigated
🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's declarations to be examined
➕ Officials respond in Canada, Costa Rica and Uruguay.
It’s been just one day of
#PandoraPapers
revelations and we've seen swift reactions to our findings, especially with world leaders from the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Russia, Jordan and Kenya.
But many have been asking: Where's the U.S. in all this? 🇺🇸 🤔
The
#PandoraPapers
is the biggest dataset ICIJ has ever investigated, 2.94 terabytes of confidential information from 14 offshore service providers — enterprises that set up and manage shell companies and trusts in tax havens around the globe.
In an explosive new leak, the
#UberFiles
reveal untold forces that drove the tech company to global dominance — reshaping livelihoods, labor markets and daily transit for people around the world.
From ICIJ,
@guardian
& 180+ journalists in 29 countries. 🧵
🇨🇱 Chilean President Sebastián Piñera will be criminally investigated due to a contract uncovered in the
#PandoraPapers
, authorities say.
It's been 5 days since our 600+ global partners began publishing findings. Here's a recap of the fallout so far.🧵
Konstantin Ernst says he was paid just 1 ruble to produce the Sochi Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies. But the
#PandoraPapers
reveal a company was incorporated in BVI that paved the way for his secret stake in a state-funded $1B privatization deal.
They include Alcogal, a go-to law firm of the Latin American elite has created at least 14,000 shell companies and trusts in tax havens, more than any other offshore provider in the leaked documents.
NEW: Our latest collaboration with 50 reporters across 10 countries in the Americas – the
#BriberyDivision
– reveals Odebrecht’s cash-for-contracts operation was even bigger than the company had acknowledged.
#LavaJato
#Odebrecht
#BREAKING
: In a surprise result, billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ party has narrowly lost the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election days after the populist leader had to contend with revelations of secret property deals in the
#PandoraPapers
.
#FinCENFiles
– coming tomorrow at 1 pm ET and 5 pm GMT – exposes how money looted from government treasuries, scammed from pensioners, and generated through drug sales has been hidden across the world.
Sign up to our newsletter here:
Our new
#PandoraPapers
investigation is larger and more global than even our
#PanamaPapers
investigation. These leaked documents provide more than twice as much information about the ownership of offshore companies.
BREAKING: World leaders and the Kremlin react to the first day of
#PandoraPapers
revelations, as authorities in at least eight countries announce investigations into the financial activities of some of their most high-profile citizens.
The new restrictions on Chinese companies doesn't target third-party sellers.
This “tells us something about the way some of the most powerful companies in the U.S. economy see their role in defending human rights,”
@dtbyler
told
@shirafu
.
#ChinaCables
#PandoraPapers
revealed Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso’s past offshore activities involving South Dakota trusts, and entities in Panama and Delaware — dealings that he said were legitimate and unrelated to his public service.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has surrounded himself with people — cabinet ministers and their families, donors and other political allies — who have secret holdings hidden offshore, the
#PandoraPapers
investigation found.
The
#PandoraPapers
reveal longtime politician Guillermo Lasso, who now serves as Ecuador’s president, set up trusts in South Dakota four years ago amid media reports that he had allegedly obscured his interests in a bank through offshore companies.
Our probe based on leaked files revealed how Sharif’s children were linked to offshore companies that owned four flats in a luxury apartment block in London:
#PanamaPapers
14 luxury homes worth more than $106 million.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II secretly purchased these properties through front companies registered in notorious tax havens, ICIJ and
@washingtonpost
found in the
#PandoraPapers
investigation.
Following its 2007 elections, Kenya was sharply divided and Uhuru Kenyatta mounted a comeback. But the
#PandoraPapers
reveal that while he assumed a new persona as an anti-corruption reformer, part of his family fortune was secreted offshore.
Newly elected president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, set up trusts in South Dakota, amid media reports that he had allegedly obscured his interests in a Panamanian bank, reporters from ICIJ and
@washingtonpost
post found in the
#PandoraPapers
.
The
#PandoraPapers
investigation found a set of secret trusts in New Zealand holding nearly $300 million in assets devoted to the Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic order disgraced by an international pedophilia scandal.
The
#PandoraPapers
reveal the real owners of more than 29,000 offshore companies. The owners come from more than 200 countries and territories, with the largest contingents from Russia, the U.K., Argentina and China.
British parliamentarians urged the UK government to follow the example of the US in sanctioning China for human rights abuses against Uighurs during a debate at the House of Commons this week, scheduled in response to a petition signed by 148,000 people.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera is facing an impeachment bid launched today by opposition politicians after new details about a mining deal were revealed in the
#PandoraPapers
.
The billionaire is also under criminal investigation for the deal.
🚨🚨 In 11 hours,
#CyprusConfidential
will be live. 🚨 🚨
Nearly 70 media organizations around the world partnered with ICIJ on this groundbreaking investigation into Cyprus' financial secrets.
Follow us here to find out as soon as we publish ‼️ 📰
The
#QaraqashDocument
reveals China's detainees were often put into camps for common religious practices such as growing a beard or wearing a veil.
#ChinaCables
Ecuador's national assembly voted against a motion to impeach President Guillermo Lasso over
#PandoraPapers
revelations, but referred the matter for further investigation by government bodies—and wants Lasso to answer questions about his offshore dealings.
By mandating that every company report its ultimate owner to
@USTreasury
, proposed legislation would allow law enforcement to quickly ascertain who owns firms involved in potential financial crimes, in large part ending anonymous shell companies in the U.S.
1/12 🧵
#CyprusConfidential
, a new investigation from ICIJ,
@paper_trail_m
and nearly 70 media partners, exposes the sprawling financial networks that have powered the Putin regime as it dominates its neighbors — and undermines the West.
U.S. authorities are looking to seize a $7.1 million luxury apartment at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan as part of a corruption probe into the Republic of Congo’s first family, court documents show.
#PandoraPapers
Read more:
One of the UK’s top officials in monitoring economic crime has warned about the “disturbing” prevalence of Russian money laundering in London, claiming up to half of all money laundered from the country is done through the UK via
@CityAM
Lawmakers in Chile voted to impeach President Sebastián Piñera today, accusing him of corruption following
#PandoraPapers
revelations on a controversial mining deal.
The impeachment bid now moves to the Senate.
We found the banking secrets of politicians and public figures like Paul Manafort, a former Ukrainian presidential advisor, a former DRC vice-president, and an alleged front man for Venezuela’s oil minister.
You can explore 20 profiles here:
#ddj
NEW:
#PandoraPapers
Russia offers new data and reporting on how figures close to Vladimir Putin dodge sanctions, maneuver vast wealth, and scoop up luxury assets with the help of Western enablers, based on the largest-ever leak of offshore records. 🧵
At ICIJ, we believe that making data from our leaks freely available to all helps shine a light on the abuses perpetrated by the offshore economy. 🔦
#PandoraPapers
data begins to go live on Monday, Dec. 6th! Subscribe to get it delivered to your inbox:
Paxum Bank, favored by the porn industry, is owned by Russian-American entrepreneur Anton Postolnikov.
Postolnikov emerged as a major investor in Digital World Acquisition Corp., the publicly traded investment vehicle that merged with Trump Media.
Jordan’s King Abdullah awards an annual prize for transparency in his name, but ICIJ and
@washingtonpost
found in the
#PandoraPapers
that his accountants and lawyers formed shell companies and concocted plans to shield his name from government registries.
#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.
NEW: When one of Russia’s richest tycoons, Alexei Mordashov, was sanctioned, he transferred control of a $1.4 billion stake to a shell company.
#PandoraPapers
show that it's controlled by a woman identified in secret records as the mother of his children.
In 2009, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis bought a French estate through shell companies in tax havens, the
#PandoraPapers
found.
Here's what happened when we asked about his offshore company.
A new leak from the
#PanamaPapers
reveals the chaotic scramble by Mossack Fonseca to survive. It also sheds light on unknown criminal investigations and reveals new findings about the world's global elite.
Malta's former prime minister Joseph Muscat, his chief-of-staff Keith Schembri, ex-minister Konrad Mizzi, and 19 others will be charged with money laundering, corruption, bribery and a host of other serious crimes, per
@TheTimesofMalta
.
Chaudhry Moonis Elahi, a key political ally of Imran Khan, planned to put the proceeds from an allegedly corrupt business deal into a secret trust, the
#PandoraPapers
reveal, concealing them from Pakistan’s tax authorities.
China is building more detention camps in Xinjiang, the site of alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority, has destroyed thousands of mosques and used forced labor to supply major global brands, according to
@ASPI_org
.
#ChinaCables
Twenty-seven people face money laundering charges in a long-delayed trial stemming from the
#PanamaPapers
. The first hearing was held in Panama City on Monday, eight years after ICIJ and100-plus media partners broke the global exposé.
Catch up here:
Documents discovered by the human rights group
@TTP_updates
detail how thousands of Uighur workers from Xinjiang, China, were forced to work for Lens Technology, a major supplier to Apple, Amazon, and Tesla,
@washingtonpost
reports.
#ChinaCables
In response to the actions, China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the country opposed the measure and defended his government’s policy in Xinjiang as “counter-terrorism measures.”
#Uighurs
#Uyghurs