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#ChinaCapital: ICIJ’s newest global investigation with 23 media partners exposes how the world’s biggest bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, maneuvers behind closed doors to help Beijing achieve its geopolitical goals. www.icij.org/investigatio...

Newly revealed #ChinaCapital documents show how Chinese lenders, working with Chinese contractors in Zambia, piled loans onto the country and its ailing state-owned enterprises and then adopted a hardball stance when it came time to repay. Read the story: buff.ly/M55AMv4

The 12th Annual Double Exposure Film Festival is here — and tickets are now available for the film lineup! Discover compelling investigative films that expose wrongdoing at a time when accountability is under threat. Use ICIJ-DX26 for a 10% discount: dxfest.com/films-2026/

Like most Chinese companies, ICBC has a Communist Party committee that ensures its operations are aligned with — and advance — the party’s interests. Managers at the bank's London branch also pledged to implement government policies, leaked records show. buff.ly/Gs9hjvi

Alameda Research, co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, is perhaps the most infamous Tether customer. During the 17-month period recorded in the Tether documents obtained by ICIJ, Alameda Research purchased more than 4.1 billion USDT tokens directly from Tether. buff.ly/zFCpAdO

ICBC served clients shunned by Western lenders for failing to stop corruption or cut ties with sanctioned business owners and partners, ICIJ's #ChinaCapital found. Among its clients: Russian and other companies crucial for Moscow’s military operations. buff.ly/7xYCdf8

Since 2022, companies belonging to Hungarian oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros, who amassed a fortune from government contracts, donated more than $13 million to an online mouthpiece of the Fidesz party, a Direkt36 investigation reveals. buff.ly/MjTs7vl

In 2021, a Minnesota firearms dealer noticed a customer's large number of pistols purchases in a little over a week, triggering a federal reporting requirement intended to alert the government to potential firearms trafficking. But the sales continued. buff.ly/p65q8uB

ICIJ reporter @scillaa.bsky.social joined @chinagsproject.bsky.social's Eric Olander to talk about ICBC’s overseas lending, Beijing’s influence over bank decisions and the implications for financial regulation, resource access and borrowing countries. Listen to their chat: buff.ly/yFstVw7

Brazil's former intelligence director Alexandre Ramagem fled after his conviction for trying to overturn the country's 2022 election. Authorities there are investigating whether he had help. Read our latest with @apublica.org: buff.ly/Ircfveb

From Knews: Cyprus police have launched an investigation into a BBC report alleging that billions linked to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich “disappeared” through the country. The inquiry into events from 2003 to 2006 is expected to take six months. buff.ly/melSv9d

A new U.S. law signed by President Donald Trump Tuesday will require online dating services to notify users when someone they’ve been talking to is banned from the platform for fraud. Read the story: buff.ly/YgDUpjl

China’s Global Lending: Politics, Power, and Risk Leaked records reveal how ICBC’s lending serves strategic interests, from resource access to political alliances. Explore the findings with Scilla Alecci of @icij.org Watch - tinyurl.com/rp3vfpcw

With leaked internal records, ICIJ identified a handful of wholesale markets and other businesses around the Russian capital that made up a significant share of the cash U.S.-sanctioned payment firm A7 processed. buff.ly/P555VAs

Private equity investor Konstantin Sokolov was appointed chairman this summer to a new $200M State Department enterprise fund to oversee investments in the south Caucasus and central Asia. Armenia is expected to be a primary beneficiary of the fund. buff.ly/U0NFY3d

From @thebanker.bsky.social: Online services are selling crypto-funded virtual cards advertised as requiring no identity checks, or “no-KYC”. The Banker traced card credentials back to programs associated with three regulated U.S. banks. buff.ly/FqnGzCc

From @reuters.com: Swedish bank SEB agreed to pay $33M to New York State last week, after a review of the bank's anti-money laundering procedures in the Baltic region from 2015 to 2019 and its connection to the #PanamaPapers. buff.ly/XLNSdpf

Even as Gunvor Group publicly claimed to be winding down its Russia business, the trading giant privately acknowledged the deals to its bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, saying they complied with sanctions laws. buff.ly/67voSNx

Confidential records from ICBC London’s archives show how governance problems plagued the Chinese bank’s British outposts, including a branch opened in 2014 to serve large corporations. buff.ly/bYjL4YH

Simon Leviev, who inspired the 2022 Netflix documentary Tinder Swindler, wants to name his new dating app Safe Love. Leviev achieved notoriety for conning at least six women out of an estimated 7 million pounds. buff.ly/4O0uyTh

Nearly eight years after the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed its indictment against Huawei, the tech company is facing 12 felony charges, including that it conspired to steal technologies from U.S. competitors and business partners. buff.ly/JpStcz9

ICIJ's #ChinaCapital investigation found ICBC was involved in the financing of an $11 billion rail tunnel development in Melbourne, Australia, according to records examined by the Australian Financial Review, an ICIJ media partner. buff.ly/ktNTMG6

ICIJ media partner Yle MOT's latest documentary reveals that Finland lags behind other Nordic countries in treatment outcomes for over 20 cancer types. Why is that, and is there political will to improve it? Watch here: buff.ly/0IU9N79

ICIJ's #ChinaCapital investigation, based on a trove of 4.8 million confidential records from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, found that at times the bank breached its own sanctions and anti-money laundering policies. Learn about #ChinaCapital: buff.ly/leQ02A5

The European Union has removed Panama from its tax haven “blacklist” in a move acknowledging corporate and tax transparency reforms made by a country infamously synonymous with offshore financial secrecy. Read the latest: buff.ly/4Kesyu8

Yorgen Fenech had been accused of orchestrating the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. A central witness for the prosecution had identified him as the mastermind behind the murder. Yet a Maltese jury recently returned an 8-1 verdict in his favor. buff.ly/rkhflCz

The accounting giant Deloitte helped doctor a paper trail that enabled Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to conceal billions in assets and dodge millions in tax, according to a joint investigation by @tbij.bsky.social and BBC Panorama. Read the story: buff.ly/lQpqAI4

Tickets are now available for Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival! Taking place November 5-8 in Washington, DC, the compelling investigative films are centered around the theme of On The Record: Evidence in an Age of Doubt. View the feature film lineup at: buff.ly/98fHRXJ

The 75 journalists who participated in ICIJ's #ChinaCapital investigation uncovered previously unknown details about ICBC's involvement in some of their countries’ most important infrastructure projects and natural resources companies. Learn more: buff.ly/MQHzFKh

Νέα έρευνα στο πλαίσιο του Cyprus Confidential αποκάλυψε ότι η Deloitte Κύπρου ενέκρινε έγγραφα με αναδρομική ισχύ, τα οποία βοήθησαν εταιρείες με πραγματικό δικαιούχο τον Ρομάν Αμπράμοβιτς ciren.cy/gr/ereuna-gr...

A new Cyprus Confidential investigation found that Deloitte Cyprus signed off on backdated paperwork that helped companies beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich move billions of dollars in assets from Cyprus to the BVI, apparently to sidestep tax and transparency requirements.

Test-Fall „Keytruda“ - Wie @profil.at und @derstandard.at gegen eine gravierende Verschlechterung beim Informationsfreiheitsgesetz kämpfen: www.profil.at/investigativ... #IFG @icij.org

Latest in a three-year-long seam of reporting by the Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the BBC and international media partners. The project, known as Cyprus Confidential, was co-led by the ICIJ and Paper-Trail Media, based on documents first shared by Distributed Denial of Secrets.

A recent ICIJ analysis found that cancer drug companies that paid fines or made settlement payments rarely admitted to wrongdoing. Instead, if they settled, their explanations sometimes centered on wanting to avoid lengthy, expensive litigation. buff.ly/S6IdJjc

No client tested the relationship between the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s compliance officers in London and their managers in Beijing more than Huawei — the symbol of the U.S.-China battle for technological supremacy. Read our story: buff.ly/g2rYP1u

ICIJ identified several actors later revealed to be involved with financial crimes who together bought tens of millions of tokens directly from Tether. Among them were firms later named as laundering vehicles for North Korean hackers and the Sinaloa Cartel. buff.ly/MoJEOnA

#ChinaCapital shows how ICBC London financed companies with opaque financial flows and murky corporate ownership, justifying it as support for the government’s top priorities: the Belt and Road Initiative and the industrial policy Made in China 2025. www.icij.org/investigatio...

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control granted a Texas-based company license to acquire one of Armenia’s largest copper mines this summer — despite ties to a sanctioned Russian bank. Learn more: buff.ly/4JcIFKF

A Tunisian court ruled this week to dismiss a case that would have shuttered media publisher Al Khatt, and with it, ICIJ partner @inkyfada.bsky.social. Press freedom advocates welcomed the ruling, but warned that a crackdown on Tunisian media continues. Read more: buff.ly/nDStDo6

Five years after #PandoraPapers, ICIJ looks back at promises lawmakers made to bolster transparency. Some recommendations became law. Many more stalled, were watered down or dropped. And in the United States, much of what was won has been rolled back. Read more: buff.ly/NmGUZpY

How does the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China operate? What did ICIJ uncover in millions of confidential bank records? These questions about our latest investigation #ChinaCapital and more, answered: buff.ly/VSxooWu

Companies owned by Hungarian oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros — a friend of former prime minister Viktor Orbán — donated heavily to a right-wing influence operation that peddled propaganda online for the ruling Fidesz party, ICIJ media partner @direkt36.bsky.social found. buff.ly/vdJUIvV

Bronze - Global/National goes to "Cancer Calculus" by @icij.org, Sydney Freedberg, Brenda Medina, Micah Reddy, Nicole Sadek, @isacotas.bsky.social & Jody Garcia Judges: "it showcases a system that has created global inequities in access to pricey cancer drugs as drug counterfeiters take advantage”