As revolution reached Tehran, soldiers walked into its new museum of modern art and the Shahbanu’s Western masterpieces went into the basement. Chapter 5 of The Missing Masterpiece of Tehran, free with your email.
Foreign investors are betting on Venezuela’s future. On the streets of Caracas, the promised recovery feels far away — and questions are growing over where the country’s oil money is going.
In public, he was the country’s top Supreme Court litigator. In private, he won close to $100 million from opponents at the highest-stakes poker games in the world. His double life cost him everything.
House Republican leaders have formally urged Cabinet officials to deploy U.S. sanctions against the transnational criminal pipeline moving Southeast Asian scam proceeds through regional elites like former Thai Deputy Finance Minister Vorapak Tanyawong.
Western sanctions were meant to dismantle Coral Energy, one of the biggest traders of Russian oil. Now Istanbul prosecutors are being asked to investigate whether the network is behind the little-known Dubai company that just bought more than 100 fuel stations in Turkey.
Harry Sargeant III built a fortune where sanctions, political access and private opportunity overlapped. Then Washington revoked the licence behind his Venezuelan asphalt monopoly and it all came tumbling down.
For more than a decade, Jho Low has been buying access to power. Yesterday, news reports confirmed Trump is actively discussing his pardon. Here is the full history.
Cambodian businessman Yim Leak has filed a sealed application in a Washington DC federal court using a powerful but little-known statute to hunt for the journalists and sources behind the investigation that exposed his $1.5 billion money laundering network.
