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Isabel Sawhill and Stephanie Owen write that for some, a college degree may not be a smart investment—especially for those who do not graduate.

Should Everyone Go To College?

Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze »

Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ's investigation into offshore secrecy. View ▸. Middlemen & Enablers. Lawyers and Accounta...

Middlemen & Enablers

Lawyers and Accountants Help Rich Manage Their Money

"One-stop shop": the Portcullis TrustNet Cook Islands branch is on the third floor. Photo: Frederic Zalac

The story of Portcullis TrustNet and its birthplace — the Cook Islands — is in many ways the story of the offshore system itself.

Offshore & the Mega-Rich

After Multi-Million Inheritance, Playboy Sachs Goes Offshore

He's known as Brigitte Bardot’s husband, photographer, director, art collector. Now another aspect has come to light about Gunter Sachs: a man who set up an intricate offshore scheme to manage his vast fortune, a scheme that remained inscrutable to the fiscal authorities until the end.

Conflict & Offshore

Offshore Documents Solve Mystery of Pre-Civil War Helicopter Deal in Congo

Secret records from British Virgin Islands firm show a South African and two Americans reaped $2.5 million from aborted sale of surplus military choppers to Congolese leader.

Politicians & Offshore

François Hollande’s Campaign Treasurer’s Investments in the Cayman Islands

Jean-Jacques Augier says that his actions were fully legal and attributes his participation in these schemes to his “adventurous nature”.

Offshore middlemen

Caribbean Go-Between Provided Shelter for Far-Away Frauds, Documents Show

British Virgin Islands firm kept doing business with shady characters even as regulators prodded it to obey anti-money-laundering laws.

Impact

Philippine Government to Probe Marcos Daughter’s Offshore Trust

Offshore reporting collaboration prompts interest from two Philippine government agencies and attorney representing former Marcos regime political prisoners.

Banks & Offshore

Deutsche Bank Helped Customers Maintain Hundreds of Offshore Entities

Largest German bank’s Singapore unit helped birth companies and trusts in tax havens.

Notable names

Who Uses the Offshore World

Secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal tens of thousands of people in more than 170 countries and territories linked to offshore companies and trusts. Here are some examples from around the world.

Russia

Elites Undermine Putin Rail Against Tax Havens

Owners of corporations registered in British Virgin Islands include top managers of state-controlled giants.

Offshore Crime

Ponzi Scheme Used Offshore Hideaways To Shuffle Investors’ Money

Bribes for Venezuelan officials were funneled through tax havens, court filings claim.

Financial Crisis & Offshore

Taxmen Have Little Clue of Offshore Companies Owned by Greeks

Officials say they will check ICIJ’s data for any evidence of misconduct by owners of offshore companies.

Politicians & Offshore

Ferdinand Marcos’ Daughter Tied to Offshore Trust in Caribbean

Records show late dictator's oldest child, now a Philippine provincial governor, didn't disclose British Virgin Islands trust in asset declarations required for public officials.

Politicians & Offshore

Disclosure of secret offshore documents may force top Mongolian lawmaker to resign

“I shouldn’t have opened that account”: Bayartsogt Sangajav, Mongolia’s deputy speaker.

Deputy speaker of Mongolia’s Parliament admits he had $1 million Swiss account.

Detective story

How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files

The ICIJ’s exploration of the secretive world of offshore companies and trusts began after a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail.

Politicians & Offshore

Canadian Senator's Husband Shifted Money Into Offshore Tax Havens

Lawyer Tony Merchant, Canada’s “class action king,” sought secrecy for Cook Islands trust.

Politicians & Offshore

Offshore companies provide link between corporate mogul and Azerbaijan’s president

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mehriban.

Members of Azerbaijan’s first family have had been shareholders in at least four offshore companies, newly revealed records show.

Politicians & Offshore

'Crony' of African Strongman Among Thai Names in Secret Offshore Files

Politicians and billionaire business magnates are among prominent Thais listed in secret documents as owners of offshore holdings in tax havens.

Art and Offshore Mix

Mega-Rich Use Tax Havens to Buy and Sell Masterpieces

Famed Spanish art patron uses island haven in South Pacific to manage her collection.

Britain

Australia

Inside the shell: Drugs, arms and tax scams

At a Bangkok airport, Thai police officers and soldiers found 30 tonnes of war weaponry in a cargo plane on its journey from North Korea to Iran.

Arms deals between North Korea and Iran, money-laundering by Mexican drug lords, and Russia's largest tax fraud: the common element is a 68-year-old Queensland businessman, Geoffrey Taylor.