When Binance's own investigators traced nearly $1 billion in cryptocurrency flowing toward an IRGC-linked shadow banking corridor, they did everything right: they mapped the network, briefed senior leadership, cooperated with law enforcement. Then they were fired. The accounts stayed open. This is what compliance failure looks like when it's a feature, not a bug — and why external visibility into executive-linked relationships has become the last line of defense for institutions with crypto counterparty exposure.
New Zealand’s bipartisan Modern Slavery Bill is the toughest supply chain law in the Anglosphere. It also illustrates why most modern slavery legislation is structurally incapable of finding what it claims to be looking for.
An Oxford study maps how $88.6 billion in annual African capital flight pivoted from Western havens to Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong after post-2008 regulatory tightening. Tracing where the money went requires the kind of curated, in-language source knowledge that no sanctions database can replicate.
A new investigation reveals the UAE joint venture meant to clean up Congo's gold trade sourced from conflict zones, never published due diligence reports, and traced back to one of Abu Dhabi's most powerful figures. When the deal collapsed, the gold found a new route — through Rwanda.
How professional launderers turned stolen PDVSA oil Into clean European assets.
Once a month, Evidencity looks into its Illicit Network Intelligence data and pulls out a story that helps reveal how our data is different.
How China's Squid Fleet Hides Labor Abuse in International Waters
When the Indonesian government reformed a major tin mining operation, it replaced corruption with opacity, and military control over the source for one-fifth of the world's tin supply.
Brazil's Labor Ministry defied a judicial order to expose corporate slavery—revealing how political power makes documented exploitation invisible to compliance teams
A Chinese embassy warning has fingered what NGOs and media outlets have been reporting for years: a 60 billion gold smuggling network operates across Africa, and modern compliance frameworks are blind to it.