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Welcome back!
It’s always great to see the hard work of our partners across the world (India, South Korea, Belgium...) recognized for their dogged investigative reporting on the Implant Files. The ICIJ team has also taken home a few accolades on behalf of the global collaboration! If you want more details, read here.
Nike could have to pay 14 years’ worth of back-taxes in the Netherlands, after a European Commission investigation preliminarily found that the company’s portrayal of its business structure was a fiction unsupported by the “underlying economic reality.” The interim EC decision follows our 2017 Paradise Papers investigation – which showed how Nike’s Bermuda office was little more than an empty shell company. Nike claims the European investigation is “without merit.” TBC the official decision.
We speak with two veteran reporters from Peru about what it’s been like reporting on one of the biggest scandals to ever rock Latin America. Gustavo Gorriti and Milagros Salazar are directors of major investigative networks who share with us what it’s been like working together on the Bribery Division after being competitors for many years.
And in Bribery Division news, there have been two resignations in the Dominican Republic after our reporting partner there revealed previously hidden Odebrecht payments. The president of the local stock exchange stepped down after he was linked with $2.4 million in payments from Odebrecht to two companies he was associated with.
An administrator at the Dominican state bank also resigned after it was revealed his company received $100,000 from the construction firm. In Peru, prosecutors announced they would interrogate key Odebrecht executives again.
Until next week!
Amy Wilson-Chapman
ICIJ's community engagement editor
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