Senegal’s Hidden Debt: How a 25-Point Accounting Gap Became a $2.2 Billion IMF Rescue
Senegal's state auditors restated public debt by 25 points of GDP. Now bondholders face losses and the IMF must rule on a misreporting waiver.
Counterfeit Stamps: Inside the $349 Million Revenue Leak the Postal Service Still Can’t Detect
A USPS inspector general audit estimates counterfeit stamps cost the Postal Service more than $349 million in fiscal 2026, capping a year of escalating fraud warnings.
Decarbonization Partners’ Battery Bonfire: How Ascend Elements’ $1.1 Billion ESG Bet Ended in a Texas 363 Sale
BlackRock-Temasek's Decarbonization Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, and $206 million in DOE grants funded a Kentucky cathode plant that never produced at commercial scale. The Trump administration cancelled the next $110…
Foreign Money on American Campuses: Qatar’s $8.8 Billion, $2 Billion in Late Filings, and the Section 117 Portal That Finally Made Them Public
The Department of Education's redesigned Section 117 portal has surfaced $67.6 billion in cumulative foreign funding to U.S. universities — with Qatar at $8.8 billion, Cornell holding a $1.1 billion…
Cooking the Climate Books: How the C-Quest Carbon Credit Fraud Exposed a $1.4 Billion Offset Industry Built on Inflated Math
Federal prosecutors, the Verra registry, and the ICVCM have now disqualified the methodologies behind nearly two-thirds of cookstove offsets — yet corporate ESG buyers continue retiring credits the science says…
Tehran’s Fortune 500 Customer: How Hengli Petrochemical Became the Centerpiece of Iran’s Shadow Oil Trade
Treasury's April 24 designation of Hengli Petrochemical, China's second-largest 'teapot' refinery, exposes a Fortune 500 conglomerate at the heart of Iran's military oil revenue and signals a strategic shift toward…
Oil, Gold, and Gulf Shells: Treasury’s ‘Economic Fury’ Maps Shamkhani’s Sanctions-Evasion Empire
The son of one of Iran’s most senior security officials now sits at the center of what the U.S. Treasury Department is calling the “financial equivalent” of a bombing campaign…
From Brazil to Budapest: Inside BYD’s Growing Forced Labor Crisis
The world’s largest EV maker now faces forced labor investigations on two continents — and just landed on Brazil’s official slavery blacklist BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle giant that surpassed…
Russian Oligarchs’ Western Real Estate: How Sanctioned Wealth Hides in Plain Sight
When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the Pandora Papers in October 2021 — 11.9 million leaked documents comprising 2.9 terabytes of data — the revelations confirmed what anti-corruption…
Iran’s Dark Oil Fleet: How Tehran Evades Sanctions With an Armada of Ghost Ships
Somewhere in the waters of the Riau archipelago, off the coast of Indonesia, a CBS News investigation documented twelve ship-to-ship oil transfers in a single day — an unprecedented concentration…