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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

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Fish trader with crypto links to Cambodia fresh catch in digital scamSubscriber Only

Jun 10, 2026 05:30 IST

The scam was at the centre of a series of investigative reports published by The Indian Express in...

Wed, Jun 10, 2026
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Penguin pulls plug on Joe Sacco’s book on Muzaffarnagar riots

Jun 06, 2026 04:21 IST

Readers in India hoping to find it at their local bookstore will be disappointed: Penguin Random...

Sat, Jun 06, 2026
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2022 Port Blair case: Key witnesses turn hostile in gangrape case against former Andamans Chief Secretary

Jun 03, 2026 05:57 IST

Confident about every word victim has spoken in her testimony:...

Wed, Jun 03, 2026
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VFS Global visa operations: 20-member EU team came to India with focus on gaps, problems and remediesSubscriber Only

May 28, 2026 06:29 IST

Beyond the inspection findings, leaked EU documents accessed as part of this investigation shed...

Thu, May 28, 2026
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Express Investigation: As Indians head to Europe in record numbers, EU monitors flag VFS Global opsSubscriber Only

May 28, 2026 06:14 IST

As record numbers of Indians apply for Schengen visas to Europe, inspection reports reveal...

Thu, May 28, 2026
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A 70-year-old tussle: Union government had sent Gymkhana Club its first notice in 1956Subscriber Only

May 27, 2026 02:51 IST

Each time, the matter has been settled — the “illegal constructions” have been demolished,...

Wed, May 27, 2026
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Centre’s online content blocking orders double to 24,000 in a year, over half on XSubscriber Only

Apr 27, 2026 05:30 IST

Officials in the Ministry said that currently, roughly 60% of orders for blocking URLs were for...

Tue, Apr 28, 2026
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‘I have moved on (from autobiography row)… no harm if manuscripts are vetted before publication’: General Naravane to ExpressSubscriber Only

Apr 23, 2026 11:51 IST

‘Neither me nor my publisher had anything to do with the shenanigans in Parliament. So why should...

Thu, Apr 23, 2026
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Rs 22.9 cr lost in digital arrest, five banks made to pay Rs 1.3 cr to victimSubscriber Only

Apr 22, 2026 04:25 IST

Order by RBI ombudsman cites deficiencies linked to KYC...

Thu, Apr 23, 2026
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The Panama Papers: Investigation that got a third of total tax demand raised under Black Money ActSubscriber Only

Apr 03, 2026 20:38 IST

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

Sat, Apr 04, 2026
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Detonators continue to top list of stolen explosives, shows RTI dataSubscriber Only

Mar 30, 2026 07:20 IST

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

Mon, Mar 30, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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