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Panama Papers
Basar
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Sued Deutsche just released millions of documents leaked from a law firm called Mossack Fonseca (Panama) which apparently deals with massive corruption, especially with offshore business and banking.
Background info on Mossack Fonseca from VICE (great read): http://www.vice.com/read/evil-llc-0000524-v21n12
Sued Deutsche: http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/
ICIJ: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/news/series/panama-papers
This has the potential to be huge, but more than likely won't amount to much unfortunately.
Background info on Mossack Fonseca from VICE (great read): http://www.vice.com/read/evil-llc-0000524-v21n12
Sued Deutsche: http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/
ICIJ: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/news/series/panama-papers
- A quarter of Iceland's cabinet members held offshore companies - even the current prime minister. Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is suspected of having been influenced by personal interests in his fight against the banking crisis.
- Why Juan Pedro Damiani, founding member of the FIFA ethics committee, has come under his colleagues' scrutiny. The story of the football association´s king of shell companies.
- 3 sitting Presidents, 1 sitting Prime Minister, and even 1 sitting King, no one else but the King Salman himself. And 5 former Prime Ministers, 1 former President, and even 1 former Emir.
This has the potential to be huge, but more than likely won't amount to much unfortunately.
i live in a country with a batshit crazy president and no, english is not my first language
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That's just with this one company.
What the fuck else is he hiding?
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Putin's ascent to power was based on corrupt politicians colluding with powerful KGB types to loot the corpse of the Soviet Union, so yeah, checks out.
I hate to share such long form articles but this one details Putin's $2 billion pretty deep: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/panama-papers-secret-records-reveal-money-network-tied-to-vladimir-putin-1.2595527
It doesn't seem like there's anything that actually can be done?
He walked out of an interview after questioned about his accounts, and opposition parties are preparing to file a no confidence vote when they reconvene.
The truly insane thing is that if/when elections are held, there is a legitimate chance that the Pirate Party would hold a plurality of the vote.
My understanding is that (oddly enough), no Americans are implicated in this release.
Current speculation is because of how the IRS taxes US citizens regardless of their current location, so banks opening accounts for Americans have to adhere to certain rules. Not to say that the sort of under-the-table banking such as these doesn't occur with Americans as well, but it probably happens that the bank in question is one of those which did not want to agree to those rules, so had a blanket policy of not accepting American clients.
Agreed, really odd but your explanation makes sense. Maybe the corrupt in the US have a totally different method of laundering their money.
Especially considering the reckoning that befell the financial industry after 2008
Or the people who institutionalized torture in the wake of 911 in the USA
Or... oh. Oh.
You are right. I knew it was Süddeutsche but I guess (in my mind) I were inclined to associate any leak with WL.
This isn't Wikileaks as far as I can tell but a source directly contacted Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Seriously. The biggest.
How many thousands of these firms exist out there?
Edit: A journo friend of mine is so giddy right now.
It's not some small firm though, it's the fourth largest in that line of business in the world.
Still, bigger fish out there.
David Cameron's father implicated by the Panama Papers
https://projects.icij.org/panama-papers/power-players/?lang=en
^Link including family members
Apparently not all names have been released yet, as journalists have given those on the list opportunity to comment.
What blows my mind is the scope of this thing not having gotten leaked. Hundreds of journalists working together for a year, across multiple countries, all releasing all at once (presumably to make it so that it wouldn't get push under the rug, and also to prevent assassinations of individual journalists). That's fucking nuts.
Above tweet:
So we're definitely not done here.
Some other choice bits of information:
I had to awesome that. Yes its more dirt on the US's name. But I love the idea of people who have been doing dirty bullshit being exposed.
If you are an American citizen involved in this kind of thing then you have been skirting your tax responsibilities to the US. And you get no sympathy from me.
Though either way it's a fuck-ton
Well they said 11.5 million documents. So probably PDF's.
The Panama papers website says "The data primarily comprises e-mails, pdf files, photo files, and excerpts of an internal Mossack Fonseca database."
I haven't seen any exact breakdowns.
Argentina's President has responded
Even FIFA and Putin!
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Please let it be Trump.
He alone can tax-evade.
CHECKMATE OBAMA
I know you are just being silly.
But to comment seriously, I doubt it's the President because that would be page 1 news and they would lead with that and because, seriously has the Pres ever had that much money? I know he's a Millionaire but I don't think he's ever had the resources that you need a Mossack Fonseca to conceal.