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Geheime Daten zeigen, wie ICBC – die größte Bank der Welt – jenes rätselhafte karibische Investmentvehikel durchleuchten wollte, dem fast die Hälfte am Wiener Flughafen gehört. Und sich dabei offenbar ziemlich die Zähne ausgebissen hat.
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Link in Bio! Ein Austrian-Airlines-Flugzeug schwebt vor einem dunklen Hintergrund, begleitet von Text, der über eine Untersuchung des Eigentums am Wiener Flughafen berichtet. by @icijorg

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For many years, Zhang Hongli was the face of China’s banking might. But in 2024, he was arrested by Chinese authorities on bribery and corruption charges spanning 11 years after he joined the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

His former employer, Deutsche Bank, filed a civil claim in 2014, alleging he had improperly transferred $3.9 million to a relative’s consulting company while heading the bank’s China unit. Despite the troubling allegation, ICBC promoted Zhang to executive director, and he went on to become a leading force of the bank’s international expansion.

Confidential bank records reviewed by ICIJ show that, while Zhang’s case made international headlines, employee fraud, account padding and petty corruption were chronic inside the bank.

Read this #ChinaCapital story by tapping the link in our bio.

Story by Scilla Alecci (@shirafuu)
Illustration by Ben King by @icijorg

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Nearly eight years after the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed its indictment against Huawei, the Chinese tech giant is facing 12 felony charges in a New York federal court.

ICIJ reporter Jacob Silverman attended the first days of the current trial as part of ICIJ’s #ChinaCapital investigation, which found Huawei had leaned on its close relations with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to insulate itself from the fallout of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s 2018 arrest.

Read the full story by tapping the link in our bio. by @icijorg

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ICIJ lost contact with Africa coordinator and journalist Micah Reddy at around 1 p.m. local time on Sept. 19, along with his local assistant, Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”).

On Sept. 21, ICIJ confirmed unofficially through diplomatic and other channels that Reddy was in custody, understood to be held for failing to obtain proper media accreditation. Djibouti authorities did not publicly confirm his whereabouts or provide access to Reddy until today.

Reddy’s family expressed relief at his and Ismael’s release but dismay over his treatment and the secrecy surrounding it. “Waiting for news of a loved one whose whereabouts and wellbeing are unknown is unimaginably painful,” the family’s statement said.

Read the update by tapping the link in our bio. by @icijorg

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ICIJ is gravely concerned for the safety of our colleague Micah Reddy, ICIJ’s Africa coordinator, and local journalist Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”).

Read ICIJ’s statement. by @icijorg

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No client tested the relationship between the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s compliance officers in London and their managers in Beijing more than Huawei — the symbol of the U.S.-China battle for technological supremacy.

A trove of 4.8 million confidential bank records spanning 20 years shows how ICBC officers ignored red flags and breached internal anti-money laundering policies under pressure from the bank’s Beijing headquarters, ICIJ’s #ChinaCapital investigation found.

Read the full story by tapping the link in our bio.

Story by Scilla Alecci (@shirafuu)
Illustrations by Ben King by @icijorg

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Die Ober-Eigentümerin der Flugzeugfirma FACC, die chinesische AVIC, rüstet das Reich der Mitte hoch. Doch trotz US-Sanktionen blieb AVIC bevorzugte Kundin der größten Bank der Welt. Geheime Kredit-Dokumente legen spannende Zusammenhänge offen. Mehr dazu auf profil.at. Link in Bio. #chinacapital by @icijorg

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#ChinaCapital, ICIJ’s latest investigation, found that the Beijing headquarters of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China directed bank officers overseas to pursue explicitly political objectives for its majority shareholder, the Chinese state.

In doing so, ICBC breached some of its own anti-money laundering and sanctions policies.

ICIJ examined 4.8 million confidential records from ICBC in collaboration with 23 media partners.

Learn more by tapping the link in our bio.

Story by Scilla Alecci (@shirafuu)
Illustrations by Ben King by @icijorg

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Wie die größte Bank der Welt den strategischen Staats-Interessen Chinas zuarbeitet – und dabei auch vor problematischen Geschäften nicht zurückschreckt. Geheime Daten offenbaren einen tiefen Blick ins Innere des Milliarden-Riesen ICBC. Mehr dazu in der neuen investigativen Recherche von Stefan Melichar. #ChinaCapital by @icijorg

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ICIJ’s new investigation is out: #ChinaCapital

With 4.8 million ICBC records, dated between 2005 and 2024, the investigation reveals the bank used its London branch as a financing hub for companies linked to sanctioned Russian and Belarusian business owners, autocrats accused of corruption and China’s political establishment.

The records highlight ICBC’s hybrid nature: a commercial bank that often acts like a development bank to help China fulfill its global ambitions.

Check out the #ChinaCapital investigation by tapping the link in our bio. by @icijorg

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COMING SOON: #ChinaCapital

An international investigation that exposes how the world’s biggest bank advances Beijing’s global ambitions.

To learn more, sign up for our newsletter by visiting the link in our bio.

Illustration by Ben King
Music provided by West One Group by @icijorg

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Leaked #PandoraPapers records reveal that Italian drug trafficker Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers.

Italian prosecutors's recent investigation — which has made international headlines because of Tamburellos’ alleged links to one of Italy’s most powerful mafia clans — led to the trio’s arrest in May and the seizure of assets spread across nine jurisdictions.

Read the full story by visiting the link in our bio. by @icijorg

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