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Panama Papers Explained
Published on Apr 4, 2016
The Panama Papers, as explained by the journalists responsible for working on the story for the last year. The Panama Papers expose the secret world of money laundering by billionaires, politicians, drug traffickers, and terrorists. CreditFirm.Net encourages you to read more about the Panama Papers visit https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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Panama Papers Explained
Published on Apr 4, 2016
The Panama Papers, as explained by the journalists responsible for working on the story for the last year. The Panama Papers expose the secret world of money laundering by billionaires, politicians, drug traffickers, and terrorists. CreditFirm.Net encourages you to read more about the Panama Papers visit https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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How to hide a billion dollars | The Panama Papers
The Guardian
Published on Apr 3, 2016
A major leak of the secret offshore arrangements of some of Vladimir Putin’s closest friends reveals how hundreds of millions of dollars are hidden around the globe in complex financial structures.
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The Panama Papers: Victims of Offshore
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The Panama Papers: Victims of Offshore
Published on Apr 3, 2016
The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world's rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions.
Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking.
Behind the email chains, invoices and documents that make up the Panama Papers are often unseen victims of wrongdoing enabled by this shadowy industry. This is their story.
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Panama Papers: mass protests in Iceland call for PM to quit – as it happened
http://www.theguardian.com/news/live/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-global-reaction-to-huge-leak-of-offshore-tax-files-live
Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking.
Behind the email chains, invoices and documents that make up the Panama Papers are often unseen victims of wrongdoing enabled by this shadowy industry. This is their story.
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Panama Papers: mass protests in Iceland call for PM to quit – as it happened
The biggest-ever leak of secret information involves 11m documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Here’s how the story is being covered around the world.
Late Summary
The US Department of Justice has said it is studying the reports from 107 global news organisations chronicling information contained in a massive cache of files from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca. These were initially leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
In the UK, the Guardian and the BBC have led reports on the 11.5m files, described as the biggest leak in history.
A British banker who spent two decades living in communist North Korea set up a secret offshore finance company allegedly used by the Pyongyang regime to help sell arms and expand its nuclear weapons programme, the papers show.
Several of the donors, MPs and financiers who supported David Cameron’s rise to power in the UK have had links to the UK’s network of tax havens, the papers reveal.
A big element of the Guardian’s first-day coverage related to claims of great wealth swirling around Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, much of it connected to a close friend of his, Sergei Roldugin, a cellist.
Russia’s government has dismissed the reports as unfounded and based on “Putinophobia”.
Iceland’s prime minister faces a vote of no confidence after the files disclosed offshore holdings linked to him and his wife. He has said there is “nothing new” in the reports, butwalked out of a TV interview when quizzed on it.
British tax investigators have written to the Guardian and others, seeking the files so they can investigate possible offshore tax evasion.
Downing Street has refused to comment on information in the files showing David Cameron’s father, Ian, used offshore techniques to avoid paying UK tax.
Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, faces calls for investigation from MPs following allegations about his offshore dealings.
Mossack Fonseca has said it cannot comment on individual cases, but says it is a “responsible member of the global financial and business community” and has broken no laws.
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca reacts
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euronews (in English)
Published on Apr 4, 2016
Edward Snowden labelled it "the biggest leak in the history of data journalism," but "the release of the so-called Panama Papers":http://www.euronews.com/2016/04/04/pa... had yet to draw a reaction from Mossack Fonseca - the law firm implicated - "until now":https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20......
Co-founder, Ramon Fonseca, claims the documents were obtained illegally, through hacking. Alth…
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Yasir Aziz
Published on Apr 4, 2016
BREAKING News
Law firm tied to leaked Panama Papers says: "Nothing we’ve seen in this illegally obtained cache of documents suggests we’ve done anything illegal."
(CNN)On Sunday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a massive leak of documents, dubbed the Panama Papers. CNNMoney has you covered with what you need to know about the story and responses to it.
What are the Panama Papers?
What are the Panama Papers?
2 Who leaked the Panama Papers?
3 Who is in the Panama Papers?
4 How do I search the Panama Papers?
5 How do I download the Panama Papers?
ICIJ and an international coalition of media outlets investigated the trove of papers which allegedly reveal a clandestine network involving associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and business ties between a member of FIFA's ethics committee and men whom the United States has indicted for corruption.
What are the Panama Papers?
2 Who leaked the Panama Papers?
3 Who is in the Panama Papers?
4 How do I search the Panama Papers?
5 How do I download the Panama Papers?
ICIJ and an international coalition of media outlets investigated the trove of papers which allegedly reveal a clandestine network involving associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and business ties between a member of FIFA's ethics committee and men whom the United States has indicted for corruption.
Why are they called the Panama Papers?
The more than 11 million documents, which date back four decades, are allegedly connected to Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca. ICIJ reports that the firm helped establish secret shell companies and offshore accounts for global power players. ICIJ reports that a 2015 audit found that Mossack Fonseca knew the identities of the real owners of just 204 of 14,086 companies it had incorporated in Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago often described as a tax haven.
Is it clear anything illegal has happened?
The documents do not necessarily indicate illegal activity. But shell companies and offshore accounts can be used to mask the origin of financial transactions and ownership. The files include people and companies that the U.S. has blacklisted due to drug trafficking and terrorism links, according to the ICIJ.
Who is implicated in the documents?
The documents reference 12 current or former world leaders, as well as 128 other politicians and public officials. In addition to allegations involving Putin and FIFA, the papers also accuse Iceland's prime minister of having ties, through his wife, to an offshore company that were not properly disclosed. The documents allegedly show Argentina's president did not correctly disclose assets when he was mayor of Buenos Aires.
How have the accused responded to the Panama Papers?
The Kremlin has dismissed the allegations as "a series of fibs" aimed at discrediting Putin ahead of elections. FIFA, the international soccer governing body, called them "ridiculous." But the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Mexico have vowed investigations for possible tax evasion.
What is Mossack Fonseca saying?
On Monday, the firm released a statement:
"Our industry is not particularly well understood by the public, and unfortunately this series of articles will only serve to deepen that confusion. The facts are these: while we may have been the victim of a data breach, nothing we've seen in this illegally obtained cache of documents suggests we've done anything illegal, and that's very much in keeping with the global reputation we've built over the past 40 years of doing business the right way, right here in Panama. Obviously, no one likes to have their property stolen, and we intend to do whatever we can to ensure the guilty parties are brought to justice.
"But in the meantime, our plan is to continue to serve our clients, stand behind our people, and support the local communities in which we have the privilege to work all over the world, just as we've done for nearly four decades."
Firm co-founder Ramon Fonseca Mora told CNN earlier that the information published is false and full of inaccuracies and that parties "in many of the circumstances" cited by the ICIJ "are not and have never been clients of Mossack Fonseca." The firm provided longer statements to ICIJ.
How did ICIJ get the documents?
An anonymous source gave the documents to Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung and the newspaper shared them with ICIJ. Other media organizations that reported on the documents include the BBC, The Guardian and McClatchy.
CNN is unable to independently verify the reports and is seeking comment from the most prominent figures mentioned. They are spread across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
CNN's Charles Riley, Laura Perez Maestro, Euan McKirdy, Elizabeth Gonzalez and Alla Eshchenko contributed to this report.
