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Ritu Sarin

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Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption....Read More

Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption.

Sarin is one of India’s most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of over four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and since early 2023, a member of its Board of Directors. She has also been a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers, the Uber Files and Deforestation Inc. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialisation on collaborative journalism in several countries.

Ritu Sarin Industry Experience
  • Years of experience: 40+

Published works: She is the author of two books, the last being one on the Panama Papers investigation in India, published in 2019.

Awards and Recognition: Sarin has been recipient of the 2007 Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year award. In 2011, she received the Prem Bhatia award for best investigative journalist and in 2017 she along with members of The Indian Express team received the Ramnath Goenka award for investigative journalism for the Panama Papers. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious International Press Institute (IPI-India) award for excellence in journalism, to be followed in 2019 by the Red Ink award of the Mumbai Press Club for the Implant Files investigation.

Articles by Ritu Sarin

👁 panama-papers

The Panama Papers: Investigation that got a third of total tax demand raised under Black Money Act

Apr 03, 2026 20:38 IST

The tenth year of Panama Papers -- the pathbreaking global offshore investigation published by over...

Fri, Apr 03, 2026
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Detonators continue to top list of stolen explosives, shows RTI data

Mar 30, 2026 07:20 IST

Information from PESO, both recent and past, reveals alarming levels of “missing” blasting...

Mon, Mar 30, 2026
👁 tax generation

I-T brings Rs 14,601-crore undisclosed offshore investments to taxSubscriber Only

Feb 24, 2026 05:54 IST

Follows The Indian Express’s Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers investigations into offshore tax...

Wed, Feb 25, 2026
👁 PMKVY

Flux in agency behind PMKVY: CEO exit, police complaintSubscriber Only

Feb 10, 2026 05:56 IST

Nothing better illustrates the challenges facing India’s flagship skilling mission than the...

Wed, Feb 11, 2026
👁 investigation (1)

On flagship skill PMKVY scheme blacklist: Empty centres, claims, counter-claims, few takersSubscriber Only

Feb 10, 2026 05:40 IST

178 PMKVY centres blacklisted, 41 FIRs filed after multi-layered...

Fri, Feb 20, 2026
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2020-24: Defence Ministry cleared 35 books, General Naravane’s only one pendingSubscriber Only

Feb 07, 2026 05:45 IST

Among those whose books have been recently cleared are Lt General S A Hasnain; Lt General S K...

Sat, Feb 07, 2026
👁 Major General V K Singh, 81, at his home. Renuka Puri

Not just Naravane: 19-yr-old case shadows ex-officer’s book on R&AW ‘secrets’Subscriber Only

Feb 05, 2026 06:00 IST

The General is not alone. There are other senior Army officers who have risked publishing tell-all...

Fri, Feb 06, 2026
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Workers left out of Israel jobs flight take legal route: ‘Mortgaged land, jewellery’Subscriber Only

Dec 26, 2025 05:14 IST

By 2024-end, around 5,000 workers had been sent via the Government-to-Government (G2G) route and an...

Fri, Dec 26, 2025
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Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy: ‘Threat to India very real, Yunus trying to bring Islamists to power via rigged poll’Subscriber Only

Dec 18, 2025 04:30 IST

‘I speak to my mother (Sheikh Hasina) regularly on the phone. I have been to Delhi once and plan...

Fri, Dec 19, 2025
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Sheikh Hasina party leaders slam death term: ‘India must help our fight’Subscriber Only

Nov 19, 2025 04:00 IST

Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina News: Say want to go back, contest polls — ‘if there is a...

Wed, Nov 19, 2025
👁 ED Crypto scams involving Indian operators were busted by agencies in India and the US. express file

The Coin Laundry | Hall of shame: Haldwani man in US net, Haryana businessman who stole $37 mnSubscriber Only

Nov 18, 2025 06:30 IST

These are just some of the mega crypto scams allegedly involving Indian operators that were busted...

Tue, Nov 18, 2025
👁 lado (1)

The Coin Laundry | Meet Lado, crypto-accused behind Disha Patani film, Musk mom’s partySubscriber Only

Nov 17, 2025 12:25 IST

Probe agencies in 4 continents cracking down on his ponzi...

Mon, Nov 17, 2025
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The Coin Laundry | Regulatory haze: Bank services, govt taxes, but no governing lawSubscriber Only

Nov 17, 2025 11:40 IST

Double whammy of 30% tax on capital gains and 1% TDS has pushed exchanges to shift base and crashed...

Mon, Nov 17, 2025
👁 Express Investigation — cryptocurrency

The Coin Laundry | After tax havens, dirty money finds a new home: CryptocurrencySubscriber Only

Nov 17, 2025 11:10 IST

The I4C analysed at least 144 cases over the past three years and came across a murky trail through...

Mon, Nov 17, 2025
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Corruption cloud: Skill Ministry blacklists 178 training partnersSubscriber Only

Nov 06, 2025 04:20 IST

Penalties imposed, FIRs being lodged, UP heads list of defaulting states, followed by Delhi,...

Thu, Nov 06, 2025
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Under ED lens: 22 deaddiction centres run by Punjab doctor that ‘showed fake patients, got extra pills, sold them in open market’Subscriber Only

Oct 30, 2025 04:00 IST

To bring transparency into system, Punjab govt decided this week that no private person will be...

Thu, Oct 30, 2025
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Modi writes foreword to Giorgia Meloni’s memoir, calls the book her ‘Mann Ki Baat’Subscriber Only

Sep 29, 2025 04:45 IST

Modi also heaped encomiums on Meloni and mentioned more than once how her “inspiring and...

Mon, Sep 29, 2025
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Delhi’s biggest ‘digital arrest’ fraud: Rs 22.92 crore stolen, split in 7 layers via 4,236 transactionsSubscriber Only

Sep 23, 2025 04:16 IST

It took six weeks for the retired banker to muster enough courage to report the disappearance of Rs...

Wed, Sep 24, 2025
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Ministry to police on NSDC officials: ‘Might run away with Govt money’Subscriber Only

Sep 22, 2025 04:20 IST

In its complaint, the Ministry asked the police to urgently initiate “necessary steps to prevent...

Mon, Sep 22, 2025
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In despair after Osama killing, Pakistan leaders met at 6.30 am: Zardari aideSubscriber Only

Sep 13, 2025 04:00 IST

A recently released book on Asif Ali Zardari’s first stint as Pakistan president from 2008-2013,...

Tue, Sep 30, 2025
👁 jagdeep

‘Absent’ Jagdeep Dhankhar catches up on OTT shows, wife on a family propertySubscriber Only

Aug 26, 2025 07:20 IST

The former V-P, not seen or heard since his resignation a month ago, has been staying away from his...

Tue, Aug 26, 2025
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ED action on Reliance official, influencer part of ramped-up probe into Anil Ambani group’s Rs 20,000-crore ‘loan scam’Subscriber Only

Aug 15, 2025 04:20 IST

The agency has alleged that Sethuraman and Virk were together trying to “influence” their probe...

Fri, Aug 15, 2025
👁 Satya Pal Malik

Manuscript of Satya Pal Malik’s tell-all book on J&K was hidden by him. Will it see the light of day?Subscriber Only

Aug 06, 2025 07:30 IST

Before he was hospitalised, Malik revealed that, as a precaution, he had moved the unfinished...

Wed, Aug 06, 2025
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Satya Pal Malik (1946-2025): He hid manuscript of tell-all book on J&K; will it see the light of day?Subscriber Only

Aug 06, 2025 04:36 IST

During his hospitalisation in 2024, too, Malik had spoken to The Indian Express about the yet-to-be...

Wed, Aug 06, 2025
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