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The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.
From dissident to spy One summer day in 2008, Eric, then an activist in his early 20s, heard a knock on the door of his Chongqing apartment. Four police officers were there to arrest him for joining ...
A case that the Justice Department has described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history culminated on Wednesday with businessman Douglas Edelman pleading guilty in a Washington ...
Kazakhstan is claiming that a group of international oil companies has been taking a staggering 98% of oil revenue, after modest royalty payments, from the country’s massive Kashagan oil field, ...
Nine years later, the groundbreaking Panama Papers investigation continues to inspire governments around the world to chase badly needed revenue lost offshore to tax evasion schemes. In recent years, ...
Many people seeking to set up firms in Wyoming have little other connection to the state. This appears to be true for firms registered at 30 N. Gould St. listed in federal fraud indictments. Such ...
As the Trump administration continues slashing the federal workforce, a familiar target of budget cuts is squarely in the crosshairs: the IRS. And mass firings at the tax agency last month may soon ...
Investigative news organizations across the globe are scrambling to survive and fearing a backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s foreign assistance freeze and other ...
In August 2023, the whistleblower wrote in the letter to JPMorgan Chase’s board audit committee, which oversees the firm’s financial reporting, that the bank had been misreporting complexity ...
Documents obtained as part of a new case against social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who have been charged with human trafficking, money laundering and organized crime, deepen questions ...
One of the world’s largest corporate law firms, Skadden has a tax practice that employs a former IRS commissioner and a former executive of LB&I. One of the authors of the 66-page letter, Brendan ...
A U.S. court has sentenced a British Virgin Islands leader, who pledged to clean up the Caribbean archipelago’ s reputation as a tax haven, to more than a decade in prison for cocaine trafficking and ...