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15 Feb ’12
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think anything will come of this? Weird there is no one in the US being named
Associates of President Vladimir Putin of Russia have channeled as much as $2 billion through offshore accounts, banks and shadow companies, according to a massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm.
More than 11 million documents, dubbed the Panama Papers, show how dozens of rich and powerful people around the world have used offshore and secret accounts to dodge taxes and sanctions and launder money.
The documents were leaked from the law firm Mossack Fonseca and connect to 140 politicians in more than 50 countries. Current and former leaders of Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Iceland, Georgia, Qatar and Iraq were among those named in the documents. Families and associates of Syrian president Bashar Assad, former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have also been implicated, the BBC reports.
Fusion has a breakdown of world leaders who are connected either themselves or through family or friends.
More than 370 journalists from 107 news organizations were involved in a year-long investigation, which began when the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung was leaked 2.6 terabytes of data. Süddeutsche Zeitung then worked in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which published the findings Sunday along with other media partners.
"I think the leak will prove to be probably the biggest blow the offshore world has ever taken because of the extent of the documents," ICIJ director Gerard Ryle said to the BBC. The files go back through 40 years of the inner workings of the secretive law firm.
more http://www.npr.org/s.....ld-leaders
Vice did an article on them back in 2014
15 Feb ’12
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might be why no one in the US is being named
What do you expect? The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Theirfunders include
Ford Foundation
Carnegie Endowment
Rockefeller Family Fund
W K Kellogg Foundation
Open Society Foundation (Soros)
among many others. Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished.
6 Feb ’14
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KVR said
...began when the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung was leaked 2.6 terabytes of data......Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished...
Doubt such a cap is maintainable. It was released internationally and has likely seen broad distribution. If the US isn't implicated, just look to other sources. Someone is bound to have done, be doing, or eventually do investigation that focuses on US involvement.
The first thing I came across mentioning this happened to be from a paper in India which named people from that country and explained about India's former restrictions to offshore accounts and how this was used as a secretive work-around long before the country began to loosen such restrictions.
It all comes down to the source, and where the focus of their writers and editors is.
15 Feb ’12
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good point, seems the PM in Iceland is taking some heat over this
Demonstrations are calling for his resignation
6 Feb ’14
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Focus on the US on TYT at 2:06 thru 3:30
More focus on the US at 6:14 till end
There you go, it took me 2 seconds to think of and perform a targeted Youtube search that yielded results contrary to the points of that quote. Not every news source is orchestrated or censored. We have independents like PBS or TYT, here in the US, and other independents in other countries. In fact, where other countries are concerned, the US can be an easy mark. Many foreign views of the US are negative, and there's plenty of legitimacy to such negative views. The US is a big country and not everyone is going to be a good person.
21 Feb ’12
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Once again, I'm not a conspiracy guy, but this whole thing reeks of the NSA or some other alphabet agency. I'm not buying it.
15 Feb ’12
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looks like Iceland's PM resigned
Iceland's government named a new prime minister and called for early elections in the autumn on Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson quit to become the first global politician brought down by the "Panama Papers" leaks.
It was unclear whether the naming of Fisheries Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson to head the government or the call for early elections would satisfy the thousands of Icelanders who in street protests this week demanded the government resign immediately for early elections.
Gunnlaugsson quit as prime minister on Tuesday after leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed his wife owned an offshore company that held millions of dollars in debt from failed Icelandic banks.
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