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In September, Brazilian congressman Alexandre Ramagem fled Brazil days before being sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in former President Jair Bolsonaro's plot to overturn the 2022 election. Six months later, Ramagem remains free in Florida. buff.ly/SdIBKWO

From @thestar.com: The U.S. slapped sanctions on eight Canadian cryptocurrency businesses, alleging they aided Iran's regime and, in some cases, helped an alleged cocaine kingpin launder drug profits. The Star and ICIJ have reported on two of the businesses. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

As romance scams incur record losses, a new U.S. law that goes into effect next year will require online dating apps to notify users if someone they've been talking to is banned for fraud. Read the story: buff.ly/UNUckVL

Documents show the U.S.-sanctioned Kremlin payments firm A7 has handled at least 283 tons of rubles gathered in Moscow's giant trading halls, processed and trucked to Russia's main defense bank. buff.ly/pZNeTv1

A Texas-based company got a license from OFAC to acquire the shares and outstanding debt of an Armenian mine, despite its links to a sanctioned Russian bank. The company's manager, Konstantin Sokolov, privately donated to President Trump's White House ballroom project. buff.ly/ttrgM10

An ICIJ analysis found that, since 2014, regulators and courts in eight jurisdictions, including the U.S., Canada and Luxembourg, have hit ICBC and its overseas branches and subsidiaries with adverse court rulings and penalties totaling at least $96M. buff.ly/AtLk3Xr

Gunvor Group's deals with Russia, found in ICBC records, are at odds with its public posturing since the start of the war with Ukraine that the trader had stopped new sales to Russian entities. Read the story: buff.ly/rBav4eQ

The U.S. government has long warned that Huawei is an arm of the Chinese state that acts with impunity on the global stage, including allegedly violating U.S. sanctions. In September, U.S. prosecutors began to make that case in a New York federal court. buff.ly/8aUEb3u

ICIJ and its #ChinaCapital media partners found that Chinese bank ICBC served as a financing hub for infrastructure in the U.K. and Australia, prompting questions about Beijing's influence over public projects. buff.ly/MtQsfbJ

ICIJ's #ChinaCapital investigation found officers for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in London acted at the direction of the bank's Beijing headquarters to pursue explicitly political objectives for its majority shareholder, the Chinese state. buff.ly/fne0xWS

Ten years after ICIJ's investigation exposed Panama as a corporate haven, regulations and checks have been put in place to deal with the reputational damage. Read the story: buff.ly/ldmNob4

New documentary "The Oligarch and the Art Dealer" draws on ICIJ's #PanamaPapers to explore the multibillion-dollar falling out between Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev and Swiss art broker Yves Bouvier. Read this Q&A about Double Exposure Film Festival's opening night film: buff.ly/ZSfOtxQ

Confidential records reviewed by ICIJ show how China's state bank played a key role in establishing Beijing's economic foothold in Europe. Over the last decade, files show, ICBC has financed the expansion of Chinese wind technology across the continent. buff.ly/eJp8UAF

From news.com.au: Rideshare giant Uber is facing a massive potential class action in Australia over horrific claims of sexual assault and harassment, as terrifying ordeals shared by female passengers ignite fresh fury over passenger safety. buff.ly/TC2zHts

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's financial advisors in Cyprus falsified financial records in a yearslong ploy for him to evade taxes, a new investigation by ICIJ's media partners found. Read the story: buff.ly/4MmyQ16

ICIJ's media partners across India, New Zealand and Austria found repeated instances where ICBC's political role blended with its commercial interests. Read more on the findings: buff.ly/zcv0nID

Confidential whistleblower reports obtained by ICIJ say four pharma giants paid tens of millions of dollars to proxies to supply lifesaving drugs to Russian agencies as part of a corrupt system that keeps prices high and limits patients' access. buff.ly/k8VzDsG

NEW: Secret whistleblower reports allege four pharmaceutical giants paid tens of millions of dollars to proxies to supply lifesaving cancer drugs to Russian entities as part of a corrupt system to help keep prices high and limit access for cancer patients. www.icij.org/investigatio... @icij.org

From the European Public Prosecutor's Office: This week, the European Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Justice of the UAE agreed to a working arrangement to cooperate on protecting financial interests and fighting corruption. buff.ly/WILrTU0

In May, Tunisian authorities filed a dissolution request against Al Khatt, an NGO that promotes independent journalism and media literacy. The request fit a larger pattern of censorship, RSF told ICIJ. Last month, the court ruled in Al Khatt's favor. buff.ly/cx2PGdE

From @bloombergtax.com: Denmark's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the national tax authority was entitled to use leaked documents — the #PanamaPapers — purchased from an anonymous source as part of its statutory duties to ensure correct tax collection. buff.ly/05RSitS

From @courthousenews.bsky.social: A coalition of 21 state attorneys general sued the Trump administration Tuesday to stop a Treasury Department regulation that exempts companies from reporting ownership information, violating the Corporate Transparency Act. buff.ly/xAfsNOv

A Cairo court on Tuesday ordered the closure of news outlet Mada Masr and convicted its editor-in-chief Lina Attalah of managing an unlicensed website — an escalation, press freedom advocates warn, in attacks against Egyptian media. buff.ly/uJkyUum

One of the world's largest palm oil producers allegedly misled investors and corporate customers when it denied links to Indonesian suppliers accused of deforestation, a group of environmental organizations found. buff.ly/MaExavI

From BBC: Police in Cyprus have opened an investigation into the financial affairs of Roman Abramovich, following revelations by BBC Panorama that accountancy firm Deloitte helped falsify documents to hide his wealth and evade tax. buff.ly/Zu6MR8r

LLCs are a popular U.S. business structure that shields owners from personal liability — and are often used by landlords to stay anonymous. New York state tenant advocates, local unions, anti-corruption groups and district attorneys tried to change that. buff.ly/lVqyz0h

From @bloomberg.com: An international court of arbitration invalidated about $12 billion of Kazakhstan's claims against oil majors for disputed costs at the Kashagan field, according to people familiar with the matter. buff.ly/j4acvHN

Argentine president Javier Milei escalated his rhetoric against journalists on Friday, singling out veteran reporter and ICIJ member Hugo Alconada Mon along with four other reporters as "mercenaries of lies" and suggesting they should be "burned at the stake." www.icij.org/news/2026/10...

From @lemonde.fr: France and Equatorial Guinea are locked in a bitter row over a luxury mansion in one of the swankiest districts of Paris, with the West African nation refusing to relinquish the premises after French authorities put it up for sale. buff.ly/3WBYSmj

From @lemonde.fr: France and Equatorial Guinea are locked in a bitter row over a luxury mansion in one of the swankiest districts of Paris, with the West African nation refusing to relinquish the premises after French authorities put it up for sale. buff.ly/3WBYSmj