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#CancerCalculus: An ICIJ-led collaboration with 47 media partners in 37 countries reveals how Merck & Co. keeps the price of its lifesaving cancer drug Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide. https://t.co/Zo4ZGf1NJ8

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Federal authorities in Mexico seized vials labeled as Keytruda during an operation to dismantle a counterfeit ring in a suburb outside of the capital city, sources told ICIJ. This is the second operation where vials of the cancer drug were seized. https://t.co/QB2ZxbqZIl

[Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge @IMAKglobal]

Here’s how Merck priced out cancer patients worldwide.

For its Cancer Calculus project, the @ICIJorg tracked and verified Keytruda's global patent thicket. Our team provided the starting dataset of 184 U.S. Keytruda patent applications from our public database, The Drug Patent Book. (https://t.co/VQTjsqqvsC)

The ICIJ data team reviewed each application, then expanded its search to uncover 1,212 Keytruda patent applications worldwide.

The ICIJ’s findings mirror what our U.S. data and investigations have shown: Merck exploits patent systems and capitalizes on a lack of transparency to build patent thickets that extend its monopoly over Keytruda and its dominance over patients who need it.

Read the story: https://t.co/2vycXDkKjz

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The @citizenlab has analyzed suspicious emails sent to ICIJ reporters and other messages sent by ICIJ impersonators to targets in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Their recent report details the findings, one year after #ChinaTargets was published. https://t.co/MPmkDjtfIx

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For the #CancerCalculus investigation, ICIJ’s data team created datasets using records from patent offices and courts, and analyzed the opaque pricing of a lifesaving drug with a sky-high price tag.

Read the data methodology: https://t.co/KJ4Ui0ProC

[Lars Bové @ZaakJustitie]

@tijd organiseerde vrijdag 29 mei samen met het internationaal consortium van onderzoeksjournalisten @ICIJorg een reünie in Mechelen naar aanleiding van 10 jaar Panama Papers.

De Tijd en ICIJ nodigden journalisten en media uit die in 2016 samen met ons de onthullingen deden.

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From @nytimes: A review of securities filings from nearly 500 companies showed that they avoided taxes by attributing hundreds of billions of dollars in earnings to low- or no-tax foreign locales like Cyprus, Bermuda, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. https://t.co/iI8xRCnnV8

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The search for affordable medicine can lead people to one of the tens of thousands of online pharmacies operating illegally, or even storefronts run by rogue sellers or organized crime groups.

In both cases, the dangers may not be immediately clear. https://t.co/xjiI0cb6qK

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From @ABCaustralia: Queensland jet ski salesman Ian Taylor, who helped set up offshore shell companies embroiled in scandals like the #PanamaPapers and #FinCENFiles, is facing extradition to the U.S. on money laundering charges. https://t.co/eH9CB6Uf3V

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Investment giant Fidelity opened a brokerage account for Jeffrey Epstein months before his 2019 arrest, according to a document reviewed by ICIJ. The account took in millions of dollars as Epstein publicly faced intense renewed scrutiny, the record shows. https://t.co/mT82WWVBgG

[GIJN en Español @gijnEs]

🇬🇹 Este reportaje de @PlazaPublicaGT, que forma parte de un especial de @ICIJorg, sigue las historias de pacientes guatemaltecos con cáncer que luchan por acceder a Keytruda, un medicamento innovador pero extremadamente costoso. https://t.co/fiBBf4atsi

[Sia At The Game @rhpsia]

NEW: As U.S. states & Canada crack down on scam-prone bitcoin ATMs & schemes to fleece senior citizens, most mainstream crypto industry players continue to enable massive transfers of bitcoin that facilitate ATM-related fraud. #CoinLaundry https://t.co/NCkwl2iali by @icijorg

[Laura Harth @LauraHarth]

Spreading beyond @ICIJorg - over the past weeks I’ve been receiving emails with most similar content, impersonating respectively ICIJ, @NEDemocracy [specifically asking about @FBIDallas transnational repression initiative launched 1 day prior], and - just now - @HudsonInstitute…

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In Austria, @derStandardat reported that Keytruda costs about $8000 per dose without discounts, making it the country’s single largest medication expense.

Austria is the sole country in the EU with no price ceiling for hospital drugs. https://t.co/EVcS3QfKAG

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Bitcoin Depot has taken its network — comprising some 9,700 kiosks — offline, CEO Alex Holmes said in a statement, and will cease operations citing "increasingly stringent compliance obligations" on crypto ATMs that have made the business infeasible. https://t.co/y6PxqMazCY

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ICIJ's latest global investigation, the #CancerCalculus, exposes a broken global health system, telling the story of a breakthrough medicine whose transformative power has been constrained by its manufacturer’s quest for profits.

Learn more: https://t.co/bKROdxuyW4

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In response to the #CancerCalculus investigation’s findings, Mexico’s Ministry of Health released a statement reassuring citizens that “medications used in the public sector meet strict safety, quality, and efficacy standards.”

Learn more: https://t.co/VIpMMcQBdC

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Olena Oblamska, also known as Lola Ferrari, has been accused of being one of the four founders of the cryptocurrency investment platform Forsage, which prosecutors allege was actually a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme. https://t.co/kGYm803qhZ

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ICYMI: ICIJ's latest live panel event on our #CancerCalculus investigation featured ICIJ chief reporter Sydney P. Freedberg and Serif Health health economist Bill Pajerowski unpacking what the reporting revealed about the cost of anti-cancer drug Keytruda. https://t.co/yDbSbpeJzP

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Data analyzed by ICIJ shows that health and legal systems are increasingly intertwined in some Latin American countries, where Keytruda is often accessed through a court order.

Learn more: https://t.co/zr1ocU7C9i

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In Tunisia, several journalists and human rights lawyers have recently been jailed under a law that criminalizes spreading “rumours and fake news.”

It now ranks 137 out of 180 countries in the @RSF_inter World Press Freedom Index, down eight spots since last year. https://t.co/Fmg5QDdeIB