Thread by @JasonLeopold, NEW: For 2 years, I have been working on a massive, global [...]

NEW: For 2 years, I have been working on a massive, global financial investigation w/my @BuzzFeedNews colleagues based on secret US govt docs we shared w/@ICIJ, internal bank records & intvs w/100s of sources.

Here's Day 1 #FinCENFiles

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks

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#FinCENFiles: Secret Documents Show How Criminals Use Famous Banks To Finance Terror And Death, And...

Thousands of secret “suspicious activity reports” offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity — and how the government lets it flourish.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks

NEW: Massive new investigation into Deutsche Bank's mirror trades led by my colleague @TomBWarren based, in part on never before released internal US govt documents we obtained.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/deutsche-bank-money-laundering-mirror-trades

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#FinCENFiles: How Deutsche Bank Let Crooked Clients Run Rampant

When the $10 billion mirror trading scandal was exposed, little emerged about who its victims were or how much Deutsche’s executives knew. The FinCEN Files investigation shows how deep the rot went.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/deutsche-bank-money-laundering-mirror-trades

NEW from the #FinCENfiles: Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of @BuzzFeedNews’ unprecedented trove and how we did it

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/fincen-files-explainer-data-money-transactions

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The FinCEN Files By The (Very Big) Numbers

Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of BuzzFeed News’ unprecedented trove.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/fincen-files-explainer-data-money-transactions

NEW from the #FinCENfiles investigation: Alexander Perepilichnyy, the Dead Man With Links To Two Of The World’s Largest Money Laundering Scandals

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/alexander-perepilichnyy-money-laundering-scandals

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The Dead Man With The Link To Two Of The World’s Largest Money Laundering Scandals

Alexander Perepilichnyy transformed himself from a money launderer to a whistleblower, and then he died. The company he founded began a new life in the criminal underworld. A FinCEN Files investiga...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/alexander-perepilichnyy-money-laundering-scandals

NEW: Here Is How Banks Have Responded To Our #FinCENFiles Investigation

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/bank-responses-fincen-files

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Here Is How Banks Have Responded To The FinCEN Files Investigation

Read each statement, bank by bank.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/bank-responses-fincen-files

It's been an honor going into the trenches of the #FinCENfiles w @a_cormier_ @TomBWarren @jtemplon @Richard_AHolmes @scottpham @jsvine @LoopEmma @MikeSallah7 @TanyaKozyreva & editors extraordinaire @arielkaminer @GeorgeWPapajohn

We're not done yet

And a special solo tweet for the final member of the #FinCENfiles team: my extraordinary UK colleague @alexcampbell

And finally, before she became our science editor, @azeen was one of the first members of our #FinCENfiles and her work on this project has been vital.

She's also the host of our new podcast on this project: Suspicious Activity. Here's Episode 1 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oTEgXsnXvRBS2YK3vAYXf?si=yAb__cVYTDm-40DSaMQttg

Episode One: The Documents - Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files - Pineapple Street...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oTEgXsnXvRBS2YK3vAYXf?si=yAb__cVYTDm-40DSaMQttg

NEW from our #FinCEN files investigation: Follow the money. This stunning interactive map shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and other financial institutions — making their way through the global financial system. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/icij/fincen-files-global-transactions-map

Explore Thousands Of Suspicious Payments Sent Around The World

This interactive map, created by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the FinCEN Files investigation, shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/icij/fincen-files-global-transactions-map

BuzzFeed shared these suspicious activity reports, or SARs, with the @ICIJorg and more than 400 journalists from 110 news organizations in 88 countries. #FinCENFiles

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