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A Russian Billionaire With Close Ties To Putin Made Suspicious Payments To Nobu
The high-end sushi empire received $600,000 as part of a deal with Aras Agalarov, a friend of President Donald Trump's.
John Templon
How To Find A Company That Barely Even Exists
A $27.1 million shipment of fluorescent lamps. A bogus website. Elusive owners. A FinCEN Files detective story.
John Templon
A Powerful Lawmaker Is Asking The British Government Hard Questions About The FinCEN Files Revelations
The FinCEN Files investigation showed the US government describing Britain as a “ < href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54204053" target="_blank">higher-risk jurisdiction” for money laundering.
Richard Holmes
Twitter Let Dozens Of Tweets Doxing Interfaith Couples In India Stay Up For Months
“If this happened in America with interracial couples being doxed, there would be rapid action, I am sure of it.”
Pranav Dixit
Facebook Removed A Chinese Propaganda Network Targeting The Philippines, Southeast Asia, And The US
Content targeting Biden and Trump received almost no engagement.
Jane Lytvynenko
The Banker Was A Spy
The Russian bank VEB has long operated in the United States — despite dozens of suspicious activity reports outlining concerns that it was a threat to national security. A FinCEN Files investigation.
Scott Pham
HSBC's Secret Files: The Inside Tale Of What Happened After It Apologized For Being Dirty
From the FinCEN Files investigation: Secret documents show how one of the world’s biggest banks kept doing business with companies that its own employees raised red flags about.
Anthony Cormier
Standard Chartered’s Problems With Suspicious Clients Didn’t Go Away. Just Like These Two Ex-Employees Had Been Saying.
Confidential records from the FinCEN Files show that the bank was reporting its own suspicions about customers with links to Iran until at least 2017.
Richard Holmes
Explore Thousands Of Suspicious Payments Sent Around The World
This interactive map, created by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the FinCEN Files investigation, shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and other financial institutions — making their way through the global financial system.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Documents Show Deutsche Bank’s Top Executives Were Warned It Had A Dirty Money Problem. Then A $10 Billion Scandal Broke.
When the $10 billion mirror trading scandal was exposed, little emerged about who its victims were or how much Deutsche’s executives knew. The FinCEN Files investigation shows how deep the rot went.
Tom Warren
Here Is How Banks Have Responded To The FinCEN Files Investigation
Read each statement, bank by bank.
BuzzFeed News
He Was At The Heart Of Two Of The Biggest Dirty Money Scandals In History. These Are His Secrets.
Alexander Perepilichnyy transformed himself from a money launderer to a whistleblower, and then he died. The company he founded began a new life in the criminal underworld. A FinCEN Files investigation.
Tom Warren
Deadly Terror Networks And Drug Cartels Use Huge Banks To Finance Their Crimes. These Secret Documents Show How The Banks Profit.
Thousands of secret “suspicious activity reports” offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity — and how the government lets it flourish.
Jason Leopold
We Got Our Hands On Thousands Of Secret Documents. Let’s Break Them Down.
Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of BuzzFeed News’ unprecedented trove.
Jeremy Singer-Vine
23 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week
From the aftermath of Hurricane Sally to the ongoing West Coast wildfires, here are some of the most powerful photos of this week.
Kate Bubacz
Honestly, You're Only Going To Pass This A–Z Indian Geography Quiz If You're "The Smart Friend"
Wait...which was the largest state in India?
Sumedha Bharpilania
A US Diplomat Is Pleading With Belarus To Release Her Spouse From Jail
Vitali Shkliarov’s “only offense,” his wife, Heather Shkliarov, said, was writing articles critical of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s administration.
Christopher Miller
Heartbreaking Photos Show Thousands Displaced After A Huge Fire Destroyed A Refugee Camp
The overcrowded Moria camp in Lesbos has been destroyed, leaving 12,000 people sleeping in the streets.
Kate Bubacz
Activists Are Demanding Facebook Suspend An Indian Executive Who Shielded Anti-Muslim Hate Speech
“I don’t know what the damn problem is at Facebook with anti-Muslim hate, but I would just say at this point that they don’t seem to care.”
Pranav Dixit
The Trump Administration Is Considering Excluding Some Immigrant Children From A Controversial Pandemic Border Policy
“On first glance, this revised order seems mostly like an attempt to avoid an embarrassing court defeat,” one expert said.
Hamed Aleaziz
A US Marine Who Killed A Transgender Woman In The Philippines Has Been Pardoned
Joseph Scott Pemberton is set to be released after serving less than six years of a 10-year sentence for the killing of Jennifer Laude.
Salvador Hernandez
Here Are 15 Satellite Images Of Iconic Landmarks Around The World – I'll Be Impressed If You Can Name Just 8 Of Them
Do you know your Eiffel from your Willis Tower?
Sam Cleal
A German Test Revealed Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Was Poisoned
Novichok, a nerve agent, is blamed. It's the same poison that was used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain in 2018, and the finding will further raise suspicion about a Kremlin role.
Christopher Miller
Trump Wants To Force Immigrants To Submit Eye Scans, Voice Prints, And DNA
“They’re using what is overly general language in the law to justify a massive, unprecedented expansion to collect really personal information," one former immigration official said.
Hamed Aleaziz
Would You Travel To The Same Cities As Everybody Else?
Money and travel restrictions are no object – go!
Valeza Bakolli
These Scientists Are Still Studying The World’s Most Controversial Drug, But They Can’t Find Enough People To Take It
Scientists launched clinical trials to see if a malaria drug could prevent COVID-19. What happened next shows how politicized and disorganized coronavirus research has become.
Stephanie M. Lee
What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail The Horrors Of China's Detention Camps
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been held inside Xinjiang’s camps, but very little is known about life inside. BuzzFeed News spoke to dozens of ex-detainees.
Alison Killing
Blanked-Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps
China's Baidu blanked out parts of its mapping platform. We used those locations to find a network of buildings bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. Here's how we did it.
Alison Killing
China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims
China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn’t enough space to hold them. Then the government started building.
Megha Rajagopalan
The US Immigration System Won't Come To A Halt After Massive Work Furloughs Were Canceled
More than 13,000 US Citizenship and Immigration Services employees were set to be furloughed after a drop in revenue.
Hamed Aleaziz
