Pandora Papers

[Foxx]

More on the elite and their hidden havens, The Pandora Papers.

 

Trove of secret files details opaque financial universe where global elite shield riches from taxes, probes and accountability...

 

A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors, criminal investigators and — in 14 cases involving current country leaders — citizens around the world.

 

The revelations include more than $100 million spent by King Abdullah II of Jordan on luxury homes in Malibu, Calif., and other locations; millions of dollars in property and cash secretly owned by the leaders of the Czech Republic, Kenya, Ecuador and other countries; and a waterfront home in Monaco acquired by a Russian woman who gained considerable wealth after she reportedly had a child with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

Other disclosures hit closer to home for U.S. officials and other Western leaders who frequently condemn smaller countries whose permissive banking systems have been exploited for decades by looters of assets and launderers of dirty money.

 

The files provide substantial new evidence, for example, that South Dakota now rivals notoriously opaque jurisdictions in Europe and the Caribbean in financial secrecy. Tens of millions of dollars from outside the United States are now sheltered by trust companies in Sioux Falls, some of it tied to people and companies accused of human rights abuses and other wrongdoing.

 

The details are contained in more than 11.9 million financial records that were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and examined by The Post and other partner news organizations. The files include private emails, secret spreadsheets, clandestine contracts and other records that unlock otherwise impenetrable financial schemes and identify the individuals behind them.

 

The trove, dubbed the Pandora Papers, exceeds the dimensions of the leak that was at the center of the Panama Papers investigation five years ago. That data was drawn from a single law firm, but the new material encompasses records from 14 separate financial-services entities operating in countries and territories including Switzerland, Singapore, Cyprus, Belize and the British Virgin Islands...

[Cinga]

Here is another link for it

Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful (msn.com)

 

But remember the Panama Papers and how far that went? This is wealth, I'm sure it will magically go away too

[Foxx]

The actual ICIJ article.

 

Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak

 

Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and territories, and a global lineup of fugitives, con artists and murderers.

 

The secret documents expose offshore dealings of the King of Jordan, the presidents of Ukraine, Kenya and Ecuador, the prime minister of the Czech Republic and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The files also detail  financial activities of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “unofficial minister of propaganda” and more than 130 billionaires from Russia, the United States, Turkey and other nations.

 

The leaked records reveal that many of the power players who could help  bring an end to the offshore system instead benefit from it – stashing assets in covert companies and trusts while their governments do little to slow a global stream of illicit money that enriches criminals and impoverishes nations. ...

 

... A document in the Pandora Papers shows that banks around the world helped their customers set up at least 3,926 offshore companies with the assistance  of Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee, a Panamanian law firm led by a former ambassador to the U.S. The document shows that the firm – also known as Alcogal – set up at least 312 companies in the British Virgin Islands for clients of the American financial services giant Morgan Stanley....

 

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Baker McKenzie and its global affiliates have used their lobbying and legislation-drafting know-how to shape financial laws around the world. They have also profited from work done for people tied to fraud and corruption, reporting by ICIJ has found.

 

The people that the firm has done work for includes Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who U.S. authorities allege laundered $5.5 billion through a tangle of shell companies, purchasing factories and commercial properties across the U.S. heartland.

 

Baker McKenzie also did work for Jho Low, a now-fugitive financier accused by authorities in multiple countries of masterminding the embezzlement of more than $4.5 billion from a Malaysian economic development fund known as 1MDB. ICIJ’s reporting found that Low relied on Baker McKenzie and its affiliates to help him and his associates build a web of companies in Malaysia and Hong Kong. U.S. authorities allege they used some of those companies to shift money looted from 1MDB....

[Foxx]

They're all corrupt.

 

[Fansince88]

15 minutes ago, Foxx said:

They're all corrupt.

 

So he ran on "clean it up" but he is dirty.  All this and we hate Putin. Something just doesnt feel right. 

[Cinga]

4 hours ago, Fansince88 said:

So he ran on "clean it up" but he is dirty.  All this and we hate Putin. Something just doesnt feel right. 

You can't tell me that some of the powers that be in this country have been using Ukraine to launder kickbacks for years and Zelensky didn't know about it.

 

So as far as I'm concerned, both nations can go to hell, I just feel for the citizens

[Spartacus]

On 2/27/2022 at 11:22 AM, Fansince88 said:

So he ran on "clean it up" but he is dirty.  All this and we hate Putin. Something just doesnt feel right. 

Putin is the all purpose boogey man.

pushing people's buttons by drawing on America's past cold war conflict with USSR.

 

how is Russia more of a threat to our way of life than China?

because the media tells us it is

[Spartacus]

On 2/27/2022 at 11:22 AM, Fansince88 said:

So he ran on "clean it up" but he is dirty.  All this and we hate Putin. Something just doesnt feel right. 

did he get the benefit of Dominion voting assistance?