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Two days before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Malaysia in April, police arrested over 70 Falun Gong practitioners and allegedly held them until after Xi left the country, echoing a pattern of detention identified by ICIJ's latest investigation China Targets. Read more: https://buff.ly/Km1hrdD

Have you lost money to a cryptocurrency fraud scheme? We're interested in talking to you for a story about cryptocurrency platforms being used by scammers and other criminals. Please get in touch with ICIJ reporter Spencer Woodman via email: [email protected] And if you want share sensitive information about crypto scams (or anything else), you can do so through ICIJ's secure channels: buff.ly/eoP7uZH

ICIJ has won the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting for Caspian Cabals, an investigation exposing how Western oil companies ignored corruption risks and cost blow-outs to secure their stakes in the critical Caspian pipeline. Learn more: https://buff.ly/bIG4yoG

Leaked documents shared with ICIJ reveal oil-rich Equatorial Guinea awarded Portuguese construction giant Zagope $1 billion in contracts as part of a splurge on lavish infrastructure projects. The firm channeled millions to a company belonging to the dictator’s eldest son. Read more: https://buff.ly/itv7USs

Passports are often a critical part of the jigsaw for investigative reporters digging into offshore companies. ICIJ’s tech team partnered with machine learning scientists from the AI Journalism Resource Center at OsloMet University and the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK to develop a passport detection tool. Read more: https://buff.ly/5PZxurA

For nearly two decades, businessman Douglas Edelman created a near-invisible corporate empire that received more than $7 billion in defense contracts. Last week, he pleaded guilty in what DOJ described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history. Read more: https://buff.ly/X8Nn4nw

Canada’s lawmakers are urging the government to implement a recently adopted law against foreign interference following reports by ICIJ, CBC News and other media partners that the Chinese government has targeted dozens of Chinese dissidents living in Canada and other countries over the last decade. Read this follow up to the China Targets investigation: https://buff.ly/1HU3mnU

Leaked Chinese government records show Beijing’s systematic reprisals against Uyghur reporters working for Radio Free Asia, a news organization that is now in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. Xinjiang police records detail a yearslong Chinese government push to silence the news outlet, which the Trump administration has dismantled. Read the story: https://buff.ly/FG2w9tN

Cyprus missed the European Union’s deadline to create a long-awaited national sanctions implementation unit after objections from the Cyprus Bar Association prompted lawmakers to delay passing the necessary legislative package. The package of reforms meant to help the country clamp down on sanctions evasion has repeatedly faltered amid pushback from the legal industry. Read more: https://buff.ly/1YncUpA

Decades before cartel boss Christopher Kinahan Sr. fled to Dubai, he dabbled in prison poetry and prose alongside some of Ireland’s most notorious criminals — including remorseless killer Dessie O’Hare. Read the story: https://buff.ly/jW1fF6o