Every racket, on the record.
Edition No. 3
The permanent record. Filed. Documented. Never forgotten.
10 stories on file
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
José Luis Ábalos was Pedro Sánchez's trusted right-hand man, the kind of political confidant you'd expect to find loyally at the prime minister's side at every…
German software giant SAP — the company that helps corporations manage their business processes with maximum efficiency — apparently applied that same efficienc…
Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France and man who has collected criminal convictions the way other retirees collect stamps, was sentenced to five years in…
Goldman Sachs spent years insisting that the $4.5 billion looted from Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund was the work of a few rogue employees and absolutely…
Likud
In a political arrangement that would embarrass a Mafia accountant, Israeli police recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for receiving roughly…
Brazil's Odebrecht construction company turned corruption into a continent-wide subscription service. The firm agreed to pay $2.6 billion in fines — the largest…
PT
Odebrecht built Caracas's metro, a port in Cuba, and a generous chunk of Brazil's 2014 World Cup infrastructure, including stadiums. It also, apparently, built…
In December 2008, German engineering colossus Siemens settled bribery allegations with U.S. and German authorities for a then-record $1.6 billion — a figure so…
In 2008, Siemens AG achieved something rare in corporate history: it got caught doing what every multinational secretly dreams of, and had to pay $1.6 billion f…
In a feat of self-defeating corruption that would impress even the most committed kleptocrat, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori paid his own spy chief…