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 ...

In December 2024, criminals stole thousands of dollars from Steve Beckett at a Circle K convenience store in Indiana. The robbery happened in broad daylight. The thieves didn’t use a gun or a knife.

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.

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 ...

As a foreigner, it’s easy to land in trouble in Equatorial Guinea. A careless snap of a photo or a minor misstep in the maze of officialdom, with all its arbitrary permits and paperwork, quickly ...

A U.S. cargo plane lands on the runway of the Manas airbase in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Inset: Military contractor Douglas Edelman, who pleaded guilty in one of the U.S.’s largest ever tax evasion cases.

The President Obiang Nguema International Airport lies outside the small town of Mongomeyen in the middle of the tropical rainforest of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny central African petrostate. A ...

On a chilly afternoon in the spring of 2021, while awaiting an extradition hearing in Bordeaux, France, Businessman H. received an unexpected call from an old friend and business partner. Jack Ma was ...

Kazakhstan’s then- president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, delivers a speech a speech during a presentation on the Kashagan offshore oil field at the Bolashak oil plant near Atyrau in Kazakhstan in 2013.

The first day of February 2017 was a good one for Rex Tillerson. That afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted 56-43 to confirm him to be secretary of state. The recently retired ExxonMobil Corp. CEO was ...

The British government’s decision follows a series of criminal charges and asset freezes brought by multiple governments against the daughter of Angola’s former president following ICIJ’s 2020 Luanda ...

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 ...