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Investigative journalism has been key to discovering illicit financial flows, tax heavens and the challenges of reforming the international financial infrastructure. Every investigation and every leak brings progress in the search for transparency, it raises the bar for financial institutions, and the pressure against financial crime actors. In today's episode we are joined by Will Fitzgibbon, a senior reporter with the  International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Will has reported on ICIJ projects, including West Africa Leaks, Paradise Papers and Panama Papers and he also coordinates ICIJ's partnerships with journalists in Africa and the Middle East. Topics discussed in this episode: What drew Will to the world of investigative journalism. Views on the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. Why stopping and reforming the international financial infrastructure has been a challenge. How Will sees the role of investigative journalism in the context of financial crime. Top discoveries from the Pandora Papers. What has changed for better and for worse since the Pandora Papers. How financial crime control fines should broaden up to include other actors beyond financial institutions. What attributes financial criminals look for when they choose jurisdictions. Why there will always be loopholes in the financial sector that bad actors can exploit. 3 Pieces of advice for industry professionals.

In October 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists — with 150 partner news organizations around the world, including FRONTLINE — began publishing the results of an investigation based on a massive leak of confidential documents. The leaked files, known as the Pandora Papers, exposed a secretive financial system that enables the world's wealthy and powerful to hide their money and assets from creditors, taxing authorities and governments. The revelations have reverberated across the globe. In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast, FRONTLINE producer Evan Williams and ICIJ reporter Will Fitzgibbon, both featured in the November 2021 short documentary Pandora Papers, from ICIJ and FRONTLINE, join FRONTLINE executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath to discuss some of the investigation's key findings, the ongoing impacts, and the importance of global reporting collaborations. “The basic principle of ICIJ really is one of journalistic equality, I think. Recognizing that the smartest reporter in New York City or Washington D.C., is never going to have the experience or the ability to find a story in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or in the Philippines, right?" Fitzgibbon says. "And that's why we provide access to the data and bring on reporters from more than 100 countries. Because we know that, hidden in these documents, are only stories the reporters from those countries can tell." The Pandora Papers documentary is now streaming on FRONTLINE's website, the PBS Video app and FRONTLINE's YouTube channel.  Want to be notified every time a new FRONTLINE podcast episode drops? Sign up for The FRONTLINE Dispatch newsletter.

Elizabeth Humphrey, Financial Crime Researcher at Themis, speaks to Will Fitzgibbon, senior investigative journalist at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), regarding the recently released Pandora Papers - the largest leak of offshore data in history. Will discusses his inside insights on the evolving story and its implications for the fight against financial crime.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We begin the show by asking listeners their reactions to a recent wave of harassment in youth sports, after Danvers school officials faced calls to resign amid reports of hazing on a boys hockey team. Trenni Kusnierek discusses recent reporting on hazing rituals on a boys hockey team in Danvers, including sexual misconduct and pressure to use racist and antisemitic epithets. Kusnierek is an anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Boston, as well as a Boston Public Radio contributor. Lyndia Downie talks about the wake of last week's tent clearing at Mass. and Cass, and why it's so hard for people to get into long term treatment for drug addiction. Downie is the president and executive director of Pine Street Inn, one of the largest agencies serving homeless people in New England. Will Fitzgibbon and Evan Williams previews their reporting on the Pandora Papers, which showed how some of the wealthiest people across the globe hide their wealth from authorities and the public. Williams is a reporter and producer with Frontline. Fitzgibbon is a senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Jim Aloisi and Stacy Thompson talk all things transportation, including Beacon Hill's response to Mayor-elect Michelle Wu's plan to free the T. Aloisi is the former Massachusetts transportation secretary, a member of the Transit Matters board and a contributor to Commonwealth Magazine. Thompson is executive director of Livable Streets. John King updates listeners on the latest political headlines, including Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona sharing an altered anime video of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and going after President Joe Biden. King is CNN's chief national correspondent and anchor of “Inside Politics,” which airs weekdays at noon and Sundays at 8 a.m. We end the show by asking listeners their opinion on Wu's proposal to make the MBTA free.

The Pandora Papers have exposed how some of the most powerful and influential people in the world -- including heads of state, billionaires and celebrities -- use offshore companies to hide their wealth. Senior ICIJ reporter Will Fitzgibbon speaks to Jim.

Cambodia wants its religious artifacts returned. Dozens tied to an indicted collector remain in prominent museums. The Pandora Papers expose his reliance on offshore secrecy. Plus, U.S. lawmakers respond to revelations in the Pandora Papers.Read more:Cambodia wants its religious artifacts returned. Dozens tied to an indicted collector remain in the Met and other prominent museums. The Pandora Papers expose his reliance on offshore secrecy, as Peter Whoriskey reports. Although it's only been a few days since the Pandora Papers published, there has already been a wave of reaction around the world, including in the United States. Will Fitzgibbon, a senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reports that lawmakers are calling for a crackdown on financial “enablers.”

Will Fitzgibbon from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was one of over 600 journalists who combed through financial data from international rich and powerful individuals to show how they have illicitly hidden their wealth. He joined the show to discuss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The past 24 hours have seen a flurry of anger, denials and promises to investigate after the Pandora Papers made global headlines, where almost 12 million documents were leaked, revealing hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation. Will Fitzgibbon is one of the lead reporters on this project, he spoke to Corin Dann.

The United States has long condemned secretive offshore tax havens where the rich and powerful hide their money. But a burgeoning American trust industry now shelters the assets of wealthy foreigners by promising even greater secrecy and protection. That same secrecy has insulated the industry from meaningful oversight and allowed it to gain new footholds in states like South Dakota and Alaska.The Washington Post and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) gained unprecedented insight into the money flowing into U.S. trusts through a trove of more than 11.9 million documents, among the largest of its kind, maintained by financial services providers around the world. Their findings are revealed in a new investigation, the Pandora Papers, that exposes how foreign political and corporate leaders or their relatives moved money and other assets from long-established tax havens to obscure trust companies in the United States. In many cases, the assets were connected to individuals or companies accused of fraud, bribery and human rights abuses in some of the world's most vulnerable communities. In this audio report, Post reporter Debbie Cenziper, producer Ted Muldoon and ICIJ reporter Will Fitzgibbon travel from the sugar cane fields of the Dominican Republic to the beaches of California to back rooms of Sioux Falls to examine how this industry came to be, who profits from it and whom it harms.

Un destin caustique pour une crise diplomatique qui pique. Ali Dilem croque un Macron hurlant : « On ne veut pas de vous ici ». Derrière lui, un Français qu'on devine d'origine algérienne lui tape dans le dos. Et l'interpelle : « C'est à nous que tu parles ? ». La caricature à la Une de Liberté, le journal algérien saisit au vol la crise entre Paris et Alger. La réduction drastique des visas accordés par la France aux Algériens avait déjà jeté de l'huile sur le feu avec Alger, un déjeuner jeudi à l'Elysée entre le président français et les « petits-enfants » de la guerre d'Algérie a fini d'envenimer les choses. « La moutarde est montée au nez de Jupiter », résume Aujourd'hui au Faso. Au cours de ce déjeuner, le président Français dénonçait  « une histoire officielle [...] totalement réécrite qui ne s'appuie pas sur des "vérités", mais sur "une haine de la France" ». C'est « un système politico-militaire qui s'est construit sur une rente mémorielle »... « C'en est trop pour l'Algérie », écrit le journal burkinabé. Car « l'histoire avec la France a toujours été sensible ». « Fureur » des Algériens pour qui « Macron a franchi une ligne rouge ». C'est « un tabou » et « Macron commet une faute politique doublée d'un sacrilège mémoriel en parlant de la sorte ». Des propos au vitriol, un « dérapage » titre El Watan . « Une atteinte intolérable à la mémoire 5 millions 630 mille valeureux martyrs » pour la Nouvelle tribune au Bénin qui cite la réaction officielle algérienne. « Un égarement impardonnable, [...] tout comme l'aveuglement [...] pour mieux exonérer cette France autiste, qui refuse de voir en face son terrible passé colonial » tacle une source officielle algérienne citée par Tout Sur l'Algérie. Avant de prévenir : « ça ne restera pas sans conséquences ». Echourrouk prévoit d'ailleurs de « dangereuses répercussions sur l'avenir de la relation bilatérale », dans ce qui ressemble à « la crise la plus grave entre les deux pays depuis plusieurs années », dit encore TSA. Une crise « à la mesure des espoirs déçus d'Emmanuel Macron », y voit Frédéric Bobin dans le Monde Afrique.   Et les conséquences sont là : ambassadeur algérien à Paris rappelé et surtout interdiction aux vols militaires français de survoler désormais le territoire algérien « Ca commence à ressembler à une stratégie plus ou moins concertée visant à étouffer la France au Sahel », commente le Djeli. « La France de Macron n'a pas la cote sur le continent », ajoute le journal guinéen. Car Paris est aussi en « délicatesse » avec Bamako. D'ailleurs ce même jeudi après ce déjeuner élyséen à Paris, le président français a remis le couvert sur le Mali. Le premier ministre malien, Choguel Maïga, dénonçant à la tribune l'ONU « l'abandon de Paris » après la fin annoncée de Barkhane, a suscité l'ire d'Emmanuel Macron. « C'est une honte, ça déshonore ce qui n'est même pas un gouvernement ». Un Macron qui « fulmine », pour Wakat Sera. « Il se permet de faire la leçon aux "ingrats" dirigeants maliens qui gagneraient à organiser les élections en février prochain », écrit encore le site burkinabé. « Une logique paternaliste et condescendante qui caractérise nos ancêtres les Gaulois » raille Maliweb. « Mais la France peut-elle se fâcher contre tout le monde ? » s'interroge la Nouvelle Tribune. Le journal béninois s'épand sur cette France de Macron qui « se sent trahie par ses alliés, la Centrafrique, le Mali, la Guinée qui sait peut-être demain », maintenant l'Algérie...La France « va devoir ajuster sa politique » au risque de s'isoler.   À la une aussi: les Pandora Papers L'ICIJ, le consortium de journaliste d'investigations et 600 journalistes à travers le monde révèlent depuis hier soir les secrets les plus inavouables de 300 responsables mondiaux, dont 35 chefs d'Etats, y compris africains. Uhuru Kenyatta au Kenya ; le premier ministre de Cote d'Ivoire, Patrick Achi ; Denis Sassou Nguesso au Congo Brazzaville ; ou encore Ali Bongo au Gabon. Voilà quelques noms cités dans ce nouveau scandale international qui n'en est qu'à ses débuts.  « Alors qu'Uhuru Kenyatta faisait campagne contre la corruption, la fortune secrète de sa famille s'étendait à l'étranger », explique l'enquêteur Will Fitzgibbon. « Ils ont amassé dans des paradis fiscaux plus de trente millions de dollars ». « Explosif », juge le Financial Afrik. Une bombe à fragmentation qui devrait toucher tout prochainement la Cote d'Ivoire, l'un des éminents journalistes enquêteurs ivoiriens promet des découvertes inédites sur son pays.

The past 24 hours have seen a flurry of anger, denials and promises to investigate after the Pandora Papers made global headlines, where almost 12 million documents were leaked, revealing hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation. Will Fitzgibbon is one of the lead reporters on this project, he spoke to Corin Dann.

Will Fitzgibbon of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) joins the podcast with an update on last year's FinCEN Files story, including a prison sentence for the whistleblower who leaked the information.

Celebrating the 5 years Anniversary of the Panama Papers with Will Fitzgibbon, Investigative Journalist @ the ICIJ. Five years ago today, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 media partners around the globe began publishing an investigation that would become a byword for exposing financial chicanery and political corruption: The Panama Papers. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY PANAMA PAPERS  (ICIJ). https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years-later-panama-papers-still-having-a-big-impact/

Welcome to the IndependentLeft.News Daily Headlines podcast for Friday, March 5th, 2021 Early Edition - https://independentleft.news/?edition_id=e56ae9b0-7daf-11eb-8e7a-fa163edbd376&utm_source=anchor&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=top-headlines-podcast&utm_content=ILN-Anchor-top-headlines-podcast-early-ed-03-05-21 Top Headlines:

This episode features Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thousands of leaked documents obtained by journalists allegedly reveal banks were used by criminals to move dirty money around the globe. Information on more than $2 trillion dollars worth of transactions have been exposed and reportedly show how banking officials allowed fraudsters to move money between international accounts, often in the knowledge that the funds were being used criminally. More than 2500 documents are being scoured through by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. One of their senior reporters is Will Fitzgibbon, who speaks to Corin Dann from Washington DC.

Pour notre septièmement podcast en français, nous revenons sur le Mauritius Leaks, la récente publication de ICIJ, le consortium international des journalistes d'Investigation, qui révélé comment ce pays africain aura été complice des abus fiscaux en Afrique. Nous parlons aussi de l'engagement de la société civile africaine pour une gouvernance budgétaire qui permet d'atteindre les objectifs de développement durable. Comme intervenants & Invités Will Fitzgibbon, Journaliste d'Investigation au sein de ICIJ Jean Mballa Mballa, Directeur exécutif du CRADDEC

According to Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and National Treasury reports in 2016, it was estimated that a third of Kenya’s national budget was lost through corrupt dealings annually. That would mean that in 2018/19, we can reasonably expect to lose KES 1 trillion, if not more, to corruption. Much of this money ends up in offshore accounts in countries that are tax havens. As at 2007, economists at the American research firm National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that about 70% of Kenya’s GDP (KES 1.83 trillion in 2007) was stashed abroad, while the think-tank Global Financial Integrity (GFI) estimated in an October 2018 report that Kenya loses about 8% of government revenues annually (above USD 907 million, or KES 78.41 billion, based on the historical exchange rate) to trade misinvoicing by multinationals. We’re joined by Will Fitzgibbon, an investigative journalist at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), who has worked on the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and Swiss Leaks, to talk about where our stolen money goes. Press play! Resources The Panama Papers - Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry The Panama Papers - Power Players Paradise Papers - Secrets of the Global Elite Swiss Leaks - Murky Cash Sheltered By Bank Secrecy Swiss Leaks - Kenya Country Profile Offshore Leaks Database: Kenya What are the 'Paradise Papers' and why should you care? Paradise papers: a special investigation HSBC files Kenya: Potential Revenue Losses Associated with Trade Misinvoicing Wealthy Kenyans hiding Sh5trn in foreign banks Concern as wealthy Kenyans stash their riches in tax havens Leaks reveal Kenyan judge a director of multiple offshore companies More Kenyans on Panama Papers list What leaked Paradise Papers mean for Kenya Inside the havens, where super rich people hide their billions Third of Kenyan budget lost to corruption: anti-graft chief Understanding the economic cost of corruption in Kenya Experts: Theft, waste likely to silence calls for austerity Episode 54: The Cost of Corruption Episode 62: Tax Justice in Kenya Image Credit: ICIJ

Will Fitzgibbon, an ICIJ reporter on the Paradise Papers team, describes this latest tranche of documents.  He discusses the corrosive nature of offshore accounts, even in those cases where they are technically legal.

How billionaires hide their money and avoid taxes with reporter Will Fitzgibbon. Richard Vague of Gabriel Investments says funding for pensions and Medicaid is draining funds like education. The surprising social life of pumas with Mark Elbroch of Panthera. Apple Seed stories with Sam Payne of BYUradio. Brian Walsh of Elon Univ says we have President Lincoln to thank for the modern funeral. Harvard's Nancy Koehn describes leaders forged in crisis.

World Policy Institute — Notorious Nigerian oil mogul and playboy Kolawole Aluko is one of the "Minister’s Men," named in the Panama Papers leak as the owner of several offshore assets in the British Virgin Islands. On the latest episode of Africa Investigates, the lead investigator on the case, Will Fitzgibbon of the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists details the evidence that places Aluko and Nigerian Minister of Oil Diezani Alison-Madueke at the center of a scheme cheating the Nigerian government out of nearly $1.8 billion in oil sales.

Following the unveiling of the Newseum’s updated press freedom map, reflecting changes in the state of world press freedom in 2015, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest moderated a program examining press freedom throughout the world. Panelists included ProPublica president Richard Tofel, award-winning independent journalist Anna Therese Day, Freedom House vice president for analysis Vanessa Tucker and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reporter Will Fitzgibbon.