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| Date | April 2016 |
|---|---|
| Exposed by | Daphne Caruana Galizia |
| Interest of | Daphne Caruana Galizia |
| Description | A huge (2.6TB) cache of confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. Those identified include numerous wealthy and powerful political figures and organizations of many countries. |
Contents
History
More than a year before the Panama leaks in 2016, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung received documents related to Mossack Fonseca from an anonymous source.[1]
Response
Noting that the papers were in the hands of commercially-controlled media funded by big money, Craig Murray cautioned "Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished."[2]
Edward Snowden described the leak as the "biggest leak in the history of data journalism".[3]
A Panama Papers victim on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Louise Blouin | Canadian magazine editor. WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow 1993 |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | “The Australian Broadcasting Corporation shamed the BBC by putting out a Four Corners documentary on the Panama leak that had real balls. In stark contrast to the BBC, the Australians named and shamed Australia’s biggest company and Australia’s biggest foreign investor. BBC Panorama by contrast found a guy who sold one house in Islington. The Australians also, unlike the BBC who deliberately and knowing hid it, pointed out that the corruption centred on the British Virgin Islands, and even went there. All in all an excellent job.” | April 2016 |
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| Document:Was EU Tax Evasion Regulation The Reason For The Brexit Referendum | Blog post | 26 September 2017 | Josh Hamilton | The EU's new anti-abuse measures coming into force in 2019 would tighten up restrictions on UK-based intermediaries that take part in off-shoring and tax avoidance, of which Britain is a global leader |
| File:THE PRICE OF OFFSHORE REVISITED.pdf | paper | July 2012 | James S. Henry | Study on the "offshore" private banking market. |
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References
- ↑ http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/
- ↑ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/corporate-media-gatekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/
- ↑ "Twitter: Edward Snowden". Twitter. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2016.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
