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The accounting giant Deloitte helped doctor a paper trail that enabled Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to conceal billions in assets and dodge millions in tax, according to a joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and BBC Panorama.

The Tunis Court of First Instance ruled this week to dismiss a case that would have shuttered media publisher Al Khatt, and with it, ICIJ partner Inkyfada. The ruling, praised by press freedom advocates, comes amid a severe crackdown on Tunisian media. Tunisian authorities filed the dissolution request against Al Khatt, a nongovernmental organization that promotes independent journalism and media literacy, in May.

Lina Rénique-Poole, a tenant advocate in Brooklyn, had high hopes in 2023 about a bill moving through the New York State Legislature that promised to rein in the anonymous companies often used to own real estate.

Companies owned by Hungarian oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros — a longtime friend of former prime minister Viktor Orbán — donated heavily to a right-wing influence operation that peddled propaganda online for the ruling Fidesz party, according to a new investigation by ICIJ media partner Direckt36. Confidential documents show that since at least 2022 the rail giant V-Híd Zrt.

In the summer of 2021, an employee at a firearms dealer in Minnesota emailed one of the company’s compliance officers with a concern: a customer had bought six pistols in a little over a week. The large number of purchases in such a short period had triggered a federal reporting requirement intended to alert the government to potential firearms trafficking, he wrote, and he wanted to know “if we should stop any future sales” to the person. The sales continued.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists hosted a live virtual discussion exploring findings of its China Capital investigation. The event featured ICIJ reporter and Asia partner coordinator Scilla Alecci and Bradley C. Parks, executive director of AidData at William & Mary. ICIJ digital editor Carmen Molina Acosta led the discussion. For your invitation to future events, please subscribe to ICIJ’s newsletter or consider making a donation to support our work.

Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several major trading firms pledged to stop or reduce new dealings with Russian businesses, joining global efforts to weaken Vladimir Putin’s military machine. One of them was Gunvor Group, a company co-founded by a Swedish businessman and a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin. In 2014, a U.S. Treasury Department report said that Putin himself had investments in the energy trading firm and may have had access to its funds.

China Capital, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in collaboration with 23 media partners, provided an unprecedented look into decision-making at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, one of the most powerful Chinese institutions, at a time of China’s ascendance on the world stage. The investigation is based on more than 4.8 million confidential records from two of ICBC’s U.K. units.

ICIJ Africa coordinator and journalist Micah Reddy has been released from custody in Djibouti. Reddy, who had been held secretly after being detained on Saturday, flew out of the country today following his release. Reddy arrived in Djibouti on Sept. 17 and went silent around 1 p.m. local time on Sept. 19, along with his local assistant, Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”). Ismael is understood to be free as well.

A company linked to a major Trump donor received authorization from the Treasury Department to complete an acquisition involving a sanctioned Russian bank, according to public records. The Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings purchased Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, this summer. Dynamic Frontier’s manager is Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-American businessman who was one of three dozen private donors to President Donald Trump’s $350 million White House ballroom project.