Thaer 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.

As Uhuru Kenyatta mounted a political comeback by campaigning against corruption, his family’s secret fortune was growing offshore, a massive new leak shows. At his annual State of the Nation address ...

One year after the fall of the Assad government in Syria, the Damascus Dossier investigation brought together more than 100 reporters to uncover new evidence of the regime’s abuses and reveal efforts ...

As international authorities warn the public against investing in Vladimir Okhotnikov’s latest crypto scheme, specialized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais was trying to invest offshore but was having a hard time finding a place to put his money. The 50-year-old Swiss-Angolan financier turned to Appleby, an elite law firm ...

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 ...

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian ...

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, ...

A 2.94 terabyte data trove exposes the offshore secrets of wealthy elites from more than 200 countries and territories. These are people who use tax and secrecy havens to buy property and hide assets; ...