The Cat and the Stock-Footage CEO: How a Digital Trail Helped Unmask an Iranian Money Machine
A woman named Elizabeth Newman supposedly runs two U.K.-registered crypto exchanges. But she appears to be a corporate...
All Investigations
Made in the EU, Dropped on Kyiv: How European Parts Are Enabling Russia’s Winter Drone War
The workhorse of Russia’s drone fleet — responsible for crippling Ukraine's energy grid and triggering a humanitarian crisis...
Bank Documents Expose Scale of Secret Investments in Adani Group by Adani Family Associates
As the massive conglomerate faced allegations of market manipulation, two men who had close ties to the Adani family,...
Podcast: White Collars, Dirty Hands
Episode 3: There You Are, Carmelo
A secret recording from a clandestine sting operation reveals the plans of financial experts enlisted to help former...
How We Tracked a 'Fake Prince' Scammer to His Nigerian Mansion
He posed as the Crown Prince of Dubai. She sent him $2.5 million. Then his own partners betrayed him.
Secretive Firms From U.K. to Singapore Win $200M in Tenders From Uzbek State Giant
A major Uzbek state mining company awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in tenders to companies in the U.K., Georgia, and...
Podcast: White Collars, Dirty Hands
Episode 2: Carmelo, Where Are You?
With reporting from Miami to Madrid, Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer unpacks the mechanics of the corrupt loan schemes...
Podcast: White Collars, Dirty Hands
Episode 1: Hola, Carmelo
Exiled Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer travels to Florida to look for Carmelo Urdaneta, a former oil ministry official...
Podcast: White Collars, Dirty Hands
Behind Closed Doors: Secret Tape Reveals Plans To Launder Venezuela’s Oil Money
An undercover recording from 2017 reveals the financial maneuvers of shadow bankers called upon to launder millions of...
Revealed The Phantom Investor: How a Wanted Meth Kingpin Posed as a Tycoon in Georgia
A Taiwanese man touted as a major foreign investor in the Georgian city of Batumi is actually a wanted drug criminal who...
Revealed Major Cambodia-Based Real Estate Conglomerate Linked to Scam, Gambling Operations
Lixin Group has grown into a major conglomerate with business interests stretching from the Mekong to the Black Sea. But...
Foreign Workers, Local Sponsors: Inside Palau's Hotel Scam Centers
A trove of documents unveils the inner workings of two apparent scam centers in the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau....