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Cross-border investigations
For more than a decade the IAOIJ has pursued stories no single newsroom could take on alone. Dozens of partner outlets share the same leaked documents and datasets, cross-check one another's findings under a single editorial standard, and publish on the same agreed day — in more than 40 languages — so the reporting lands everywhere at once and cannot be buried in any one country.
Members can access the underlying datasets, documents and analysis code behind every investigation in the Resources & Data centre. Reporting is published under a Creative Commons licence for IAOIJ partners.
A nine-month collaboration traced more than 600 ageing tankers operating under flags of convenience and paper insurance to keep sanctioned crude flowing — and the brokers, insurers and ports that make it possible.
Leaked corporate registries from six secrecy jurisdictions expose the hidden owners behind €14bn of property, yachts and shell companies — and the bankers and lawyers who built the structures.
Internal documents and buried trial data reveal how a leading generics maker kept selling a drug it knew was failing to regulators in 40 countries.
A selection from more than 320 cross-border projects. Full case files, datasets and partner credits are available to members.
Satellite imagery matched to supply-chain records traces the firms clearing protected forest for cattle, soy and palm oil.
Inside the booming trade in spyware and phone-extraction kit sold to governments that jail reporters and dissidents.
A network of for-hire operatives ran coordinated disinformation across nine elections on three continents.
Payroll records expose tens of thousands of phantom employees quietly draining public wage budgets.
How forged end-user certificates routed weapons into embargoed war zones through a chain of front companies.
Billions in dirty money washed through a chain of shell banks and mirror trades across four continents.
Following artisanal gold from conflict-zone pits through refiners to the luxury brands that sell it.
Pesticides banned at home, made in Europe and sold by the container-load to farms across the Global South.
Forced labour in distant-water fishing fleets, mapped through the crews who escaped to tell it.
How we investigate
Cross-border reporting only works when everyone plays by the same rules. Our method is built to make big, document-heavy investigations rigorous, safe and impossible to ignore.
Partners work from one secured set of leaked documents, datasets and records — indexed, searchable and access-logged — so every claim rests on the same source material.
Reporters verify each other's findings, a central data team stress-tests the numbers, and a pre-publication desk reviews the strongest claims against the law in each country.
On an agreed day the whole coalition publishes at once, in dozens of languages, giving the subjects nowhere to spin the story quietly in a single market.
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