Scottish shell firms played a core role in a billion-dollar bribery ‘mega scandal’ threatening to topple or disgrace up to a dozen world leaders. By David Leask.

The debate about anonymity in art sales has intensified as some people wonder whether a lack of ownership transparency has invited criminal activity. By Graham Bowley and William K. Rashbaum. (Feb. 19, 2017)

The mainstream media’s obituaries for Gen. Manuel Noriega missed the real story: the U.S. government’s rank hypocrisy in justifying a bloody invasion that deepened Panama’s role in the drug trade, explains Jonathan Marshall.

A new class of startups is using bitcoin and the blockchain to drastically lower fees as they try to grab a share of the remittance market from old competitors like Western Union. By Ben Schiller.

Report’s authors say that the U.S. and EU have the power to force other nations to embrace transparency reforms. By Michael Hudson.

Edward N. Luttwak reviews Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier's "The Panama Papers: Breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money."

A Scottish firm is at the heart of a major organised crime investigation into arms exports from the former Soviet Union to the Middle East. By David Leask.

Fraud, Santeria rituals and an unsolved killing at Doral Bank. By Zeke Faux.

A long life in politics has allowed Bill and Hillary Clinton to accumulate relationships to wealthy people and businesses across the globe. McClatchy found multiple connections to the Clintons in the Panama papers database. By Anita Kumar, Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall.

A new law in Germany seeks to eliminate the trade in ancient artifacts. It was written to target people like Leonardo Patterson, whose long career selling plundered objects from Central America throws a spotlight on the dubious industry. By Konstantin von Hammerstein.

Alleged Nazi-looted artworks were discovered through the Panama Papers revelations. Among the works hiding at the Geneva Freeports was a masterpiece by Modigliani - and many more lost treasures could be found. By Sabine Oelze.

The primary pleasure in “Making Monte Carlo” comes from watching the various eccentrics, lowlifes, high-rollers, and famous artists -- Edvard Munch, Karl Marx, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel -- stroll in to take a seat at the table. By Matt Seidel.

A deeper insight into Japanese businessmen’s offshore deals. By Scilla Alecci and Alessia Cerantola.

The Panama papers show that rich people aren’t even rational: they send their money on holiday to the Caymans, and live in perpetual rain in Britain. By Frankie Boyle.

The website for Corporation Makers promises that owning a business can remain “your deep dark secret. Do you wish to own land or other assets without anyone becoming aware of it?” it advertises. By Matt Pearce.

If you want to launder your money through a shell firm with no questions asked, don't go to Panama. Try Delaware instead. By Jason Sharman.

Yesterday Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, asking him to investigate potential U.S. involvement in the money laundering issues recently exposed by the leak of the Panama papers from the law firm, Mossack Fonseca… By Pam and Russ Martens.

“Whether we like it or not, art is used for tax avoidance and evasion,” said NYU economics professor Nouriel Roubini last year. “Plenty of people are using it for money laundering.” By Felix Salmon.

Documents newly released by the Federal Election Commission in cases involving 2012 election-cycle contributions to super PACs may foreshadow enforcement action against limited liability companies in the future. By Alex Glorioso. (Apr. 4)

Americans don’t need offshore companies in tiny island nations to hide their money. America has Delaware. By Libby Watson.