Financial Transparency Coalition

PRESS RELEASE Investigations vindicate the need for strengthening of financial systems across the globe NAIROBI, 6 April 2016 – The recent revelation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) of a systematic and complicit scheme of tax evasion involving major world leaders (past and present), wealthy individuals and a host of multinational corporations (MNCs)

Our friends at RightingFinance have just released the first in a series of toolkits exploring the intersection of human rights and tax policy. Please read the following blog, crossposted from the RightingFinance website for more information.

In what is being referred to as the largest data leak in history, 11.5 million files of confidential information from global law firm Mossack Fonseca were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Mossack Fonseca, based in Panama, operates in more than 40 offices worldwide, and is known for their work setting up

Late last year, we wrote about how an anonymous company incorporated in Delaware purchased Nevada’s largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The move left the paper’s staff, its readers, and even presidential candidates, puzzled. We finally found out who was behind that takeover, but today we have yet another example of how corporations can be used to hide one’s identity. Instead