Numerous retroactive foreign lobbying filings / New Litvinenko documentary / Panama Papers anniversary / Campaign finance reform vital

Payments to Manafort on black ledger confirmed / FBI obtained court order to monitor communications from Carter Page / Anniversary of Panama Papers

One year after the Panama Papers, has anything changed in the world of offshoring? Casey Michel talks to Will Fitzgibbon of ICIJ.

Feds find $50m scheme that gave green cards to criminals on China’s wanted list / 3 Baltic news sites secretly linked to Kremlin’s propaganda network

Treasury Dept leading corruption probe into Manafort’s work in Eastern Eur / Lawyer connected to murdered Putin foe Magnitsky thrown from window

A court in Kiev heard arguments on a $74 million embezzlement case / £4.2 billion worth of London property is bought using suspicious wealth

Russian missile downed MH17, Putin’s friends get rich, and Iran bemoans sanctions

The week’s leading stories on kleptocratic regimes and their professional enablers

FBI official lauds global anti-graft efforts, Ukraine considers the price of China’s investments, and UK distances itself from Chinese infrastructure firms

Stiglitz resigns from Panama Papers committee, Ukraine’s IMF aid needs not “critical,” and U.S. states compete to attract anonymous trusts