Thread: Offshore Accounts Of World Leaders Revealed

Originally Posted by OhOh

Or is Ameristan on of the "exceptional" countries which are above international agreements - money laundering, illegal invasions, UNCLOS ......

Edit?

Link to report showing probable Ameristani exceptional practises:

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/338782-us...panama-papers/

I hope you are not too disappointed that once AGAIN your Ameristani conspiracy has failed.


Panama Papers reveal spies used Mossack Fonseca - The Economic Times
Panama Papers reveal spies used Mossack Fonseca



BERLIN: Secret agents from several countries, including intermediaries of the CIA, have used the services of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca in order to "conceal" their activities, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday.

"Secret agents and their informants have made wide use of the company's services," wrote the newspaper, which obtained a massive stash of 11.5 million documents from the company that is sending shockwaves around the globe.

"Agents have opened shell companies to conceal their activities... Among them are close intermediaries of the CIA," the newspaper reported.

The Munich-based newspaper said Mossack Fonseca's clients included "several players" in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, which saw senior US officials facilitate secret arms sales to Iran in a bid to secure the release of American hostages and fund Nicaragua's Contra rebels.

The Panama Papers also reveal that "current or former high-ranking officials of the secret services of at least three countries... Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Rwanda" are listed amongst the company's clients, the Sueddeutsche said.

Among them was Sheikh Kamal Adham, the former Saudi intelligence chief who died in 1999. Adham "spent the 1970s as one of the CIA's key intermediaries" in the Middle East, the daily said.

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung received the huge stash of Mossack Fonseca documents from an anonymous source and shared them with more than 100 media groups through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

A week after the first revelations, the documents have shed light on how the world's rich and powerful have used offshore companies to stash their assets, forcing Iceland's prime minister to resign and putting pressure on a slew of other leaders around the world.

BERLIN: Secret agents from several countries, including intermediaries of the CIA, have used the services of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca in order to "conceal" their activities, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday.

"Secret agents and their informants have made wide use of the company's services," wrote the newspaper, which obtained a massive stash of 11.5 million documents from the company that is sending shockwaves around the globe.

Read more at:
Panama Papers reveal spies used Mossack Fonseca - The Economic Times Secret agents from several countries, including intermediaries of the CIA, have used the services of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca in order to "conceal" their activities, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday.

"Secret agents and their informants have made wide use of the company's services," wrote the newspaper, which obtained a massive stash of 11.5 million documents from the company that is sending shockwaves around the globe.

Read more at:
Panama Papers reveal spies used Mossack Fonseca - The Economic Times

...and there are of course no Russians, Chinese, or Muslims involved in this silly Panama conspiracy

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Cash is king mate.

Buy physical gold with it and I agree.

It's probably true that the value of $1, £1 .... have been vastly reduced over the decades to a small % of it's original worth.

What's he bloody waffling on about now?

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Have no idea

Originally Posted by OhOh

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The first releases.
Were obtained by.
Searching.
The complete.
Data set.
With one query.

The query was:
"Who".
"has been".
"UN".
"Sanctioned".

One does this.
To reduce.
The returned.
List.
If one desires too.

1, 2 ,3 or 4 words in a sentence? Just for the colonials. I apologise to those that had more than 3 years of infant schooling.

They've had this shit for a year, and the best they can find is some circumstantial nonsense.


They should just release the fucking lot and let smarter people do the job.

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

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Have no idea

I believe its fluid bollocks, not a very useful language... though using it you can apparently eat a rancid curry and simultaneously speak...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

They should just release the fucking lot and let smarter people do the job.

Unfortunately harry, that would allow others to search the data and consequently, probably, change the story. No problem, the world now knows that it's only The LORD, short and shifty looking brown people or Muslims!

All are acceptable, to the sheeple, as targets for either military or financial bombs,

Panama Papers details are correct but do not implicate me, says Putin

Russian president says information about his old friend Sergei Roldugin is accurate while insisting it shows no illegal activity


Vladimir Putin has said the revelations from the Panama Papers published in the Guardian concerning an old friend of his are true.

However, the Russian president went on to say that the files demonstrate no illegal activity on his part. The papers link the cellist Sergei Roldugin to a number of offshore companies with cash flows of up to $2bn (£1.4bn).

During his annual phone-in with the nation, Putin discussed the documents with an irate caller who asked why he had not sued western media for spreading lies concerning the unprecedented leak of 11.5m files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca.

“However strange it may seem, the information is correct,” he said. “I have the feeling that it was prepared not by journalists but by lawyers, given the way it is presented. And it doesn’t actually accuse anyone of anything, and that’s the whole point. They are just trying to cause confusion, saying that some of my friends are involved in business, and suggesting that some of the money from these offshore accounts finds its way to officials, including the president.

Roldugin, who runs the Music House in St Petersburg, told state television earlier this week that he had spent all the money on musical instruments for talented young Russians. Without directly answering allegations that he personally controls a series of assets worth at least $100m, Roldugin dismissed any suggestion that he was fabulously wealthy or was safeguarding money or assets for Putin.

The programme also explained an unusual series of huge loans to Roldugin with a theory that the Russian intelligence services had spent $1.5bn to foil a plot by the CIA to gain control of Russia’s cable television network. Neither Roldugin nor Putin has mentioned this.

On Thursday, Putin said Roldugin had spent “all the money he acquired” on musical instruments including an 18th-century cello for $12m. “Sergei Pavlovich [Roldugin] already has nothing left. He spent even more money on buying all these instruments than he had, and even owes money to the foundations which he paid for them through,” the president said.

He repeated the accusation that the Panama Papers were part of a western plot to smear Russia, which Russian officials have claimed on a number of occasions, despite the large number of politicians from different countries involved in the leak.

More here.
Panama Papers details are correct but do not implicate me, says Putin | World news | The Guardian

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Nothing like throwing a friend under the bus. Well done Putin.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Nothing like throwing a friend under the bus. Well done Putin.

"Exceptional" empire SOP doesn't travel well. Ameristan disregards global agreements willy nilly, they fail to accept global agreements yet strut around, shitting everywhere, hoping to be protected by them.

Others sign agreements and deliver measurable, validated, improvements and life enhancing, to the citizens of their own and partners lives.

China Railway links Ethiopia to Red Sea | New Eastern Outlook

Links to named "friends" breaking laws would be of assistance for us to decide. Not just propaganda for the sheeple.

300 Economists Urge Leaders to Reject Tax Havens

LONDON—
Hundreds of economists urged world leaders Monday to end the era of tax havens, arguing they only benefit rich individuals and multinational corporations and serve to increase inequality.

The 300 economists, in a letter coordinated by activist group Oxfam, say poorer countries are hit hardest by tax dodging. The signatories, including Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University's Earth Institute and author Thomas Piketty, argue there is no economic justification for tax havens and urge leaders to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding them.

"As the Panama Papers and other recent exposés have revealed, the secrecy provided by tax havens fuels corruption and undermines countries' ability to collect their fair share of taxes," the letter said. "While all countries are hit by tax dodging, poor countries are proportionately the biggest losers, missing out on at least $170 [billion] of taxes annually as a result."

The letter comes days before an anti-corruption summit in London, featuring politicians from 40 countries as well as representatives from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Economists from Harvard, Oxford and the London School of Economics were among the signatories.

Many of the companies that featured in the leak of the so-called Panama Papers were incorporated in British Overseas Territories and the British Virgin Islands.

"The existence of tax havens does not add to overall global wealth or well-being; they serve no useful economic purpose," the letter said. "Whilst these jurisdictions undoubtedly benefit some rich individuals and multinational corporations, this benefit is at the expense of others, and they therefore serve to increase inequality."

300 Economists Urge Leaders to Reject Tax Havens

Panama Papers database dump reveals 200,000 secret offshore account details

The "Panama Papers" database went live today - the largest ever release of secret offshore companies and the people behind them.

The data, collated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), comes from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and includes information about companies, trusts, foundations and funds incorporated in 21 tax havens, from Hong Kong to Nevada in the United States.

much more here Panama Papers database dump reveals 200,000 secret offshore account details

^ Above mentioned searchable database


Offshore Leaks Database

Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

5555 ....Gotta wonder what they intend to do with with so much wealth stashed? Just plain avarice perhaps?

Originally Posted by misskit

^ Above mentioned searchable database


Offshore Leaks Database

Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

It is rather fun but it does give very limited information which is a shame.

China Has Biggest Number of Links to Panama Papers

China-linked offshore companies in the Panama Papers far exceed the number of entities from other countries and regions of the world, reports indicate.

Some 25,000 offshore companies with owners -- either companies or individuals -- from China have been listed in a mass online leak of data from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, according to initial analysis of the data.

Of those, around 13,000 are traceable to Hong Kong, which has long been suspected as a major staging post for offshore Chinese funds re-entering the country as "foreign direct investment."

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made public information on around 210,000 companies listed in the records of Mossack Fonseca, which helps clients set up shell companies in tax havens.

The leak has sent shockwaves around the world as the tax avoidance habits of the world's wealthiest people have been exposed.

But the ruling Chinese Communist Party has shifted its censorship machinery into overdrive since the leaks, banning news outlets from independent coverage of the story and ordering the deletion of related content from websites and social media platforms.

Chinese leaders' families implicated

The massive leak of 11.5 million files has revealed details of the operations and ultimate, hidden ownership of a slew of offshore shell companies, including those owned by family members of top Chinese leaders and Chinese celebrities.

Many of the networks outlined in the Panama Papers begin in Hong Kong, and are now available for public investigation at the ICIJ's website.

However, the link to the database was 100 percent blocked in China on Tuesday, while the Panama Papers homepage https://panamapapers.icij.org/ was 90 percent blocked in China on Monday and Tuesday, according to a test on the anti-censorship site GreatFire.org.

Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper on Tuesday said it had found 33,000 Chinese names, some of which matched the English spelling of the names of high-ranking Chinese officials.

However, the ICIJ warned that independent identity checks must be carried out to ensure that nobody is mistakenly identified.

It added that setting up an offshore shell company does not in itself prove that any wrongdoing has occurred.

According to the Apple Daily, one name is spelled the same as that of Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei, who is listed as a beneficiary of the British Virgin Islands (BVI)-registered company Crown Aquarius.

Another listing had a name spelled identically to that of former State Ethnic Affairs Commission chief and government minorities adviser Wang Zhengwei.

And another was identical to that of State Council secretary general Yang Jing, the Apple Daily said.

Censorship limits impact

However, further investigations would be needed to confirm that these individuals were the people listed on the database, it said.

Hong Kong-based independent political commentator Johnny Lau said the new revelations are unlikely to have an immediate impact in China, where they remain inaccessible, and where public debate on the topic is tightly controlled.

But he said they could lend authenticity to future cases brought by the administration of President Xi Jinping as part of his ongoing anti-corruption campaign.

"The case of [former Chongqing party chief] Bo Xilai showed us that a lot of material was gathered to use against him and his family after he became a problem," Lau said.

"But a lot of these offshore companies revealed in the Panama Papers are people avoiding tax rather than evading it, which means that it's a smear on their public image, but nothing more," he said.

At least eight current or former members of the all-powerful Politburo standing committee are among the more than 140 political figures worldwide linked to the offshore tax havens, according to a global investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other news organizations.

Included in the names uncovered by the investigation are the brother-in-law of President Xi, Deng Jiagui, and the daughter of former premier Li Peng, Li Xiaolin.

China has dismissed queries about the leaks as "groundless accusations."

China Has Biggest Number of Links to Panama Papers

Originally Posted by misskit

Of those, around 13,000 are traceable to Hong Kong, which has long been suspected as a major staging post for offshore Chinese funds re-entering the country as "foreign direct investment.

Of those 13,000 how many are shell companies for "other" nationality owners?

All goes to underline the truism that power corrupts.

637 new names in Thailand linked to the leak

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) yesterday released the result of its probe into the Panama Papers leak, revealing that 203 Thai nationals, 383 foreigners living in Thailand and 51 legal bodies were linked to the giant leak.

AMLO adviser Pol Colonel Sihanart Prayoonrat said he checked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which leaked the Panama Papers, and it denied that the 16 Thais whose names were initially mentioned were linked to the Panama Papers.

He said the ICIJ's second list, however, revealed 637 names based in Thailand.

He said he would check the names to see if they violated the anti-money laundering law.

The Panama Papers has revealed more than 11.5 million financial and legal records, exposing a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing enabled by secretive offshore companies.

637 new names in Thailand linked to the leak - The Nation

I had a quick look through yesterday. I noticed a couple of Shinawatra names but not Thaksin's. His ex-wife and a son, I think.

Allegedly Tump, or his companies, had accounts. No mention of the Cuntons/Bushes/Chaney....... though, so far.

Vietnam launches probe into people and businesses named in Panama Papers

A total of 189 individuals and businesses named in the latest release of the Panama Papers are now under the investigation of Vietnam’s tax authority and relevant agencies, according to Thanh Nien News on Wednesday.

The report said Deputy Finance Minister Vu Thi Mai has confirmed the investigation on Tuesday, one day after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a database of nearly 214,000 offshore entities.

The Vietnamese-linked individuals and businesses are listed as being associated with 19 questionable offshore companies, mostly in British Vergin Islands.

Mai said that, at the moment, it could not be established yet whether the individuals and businesses implicated in the papers have evaded taxes or not. He added that it would take time to find out.

Meanwhile, the government’s Anti-Corruption Department chief Pham Trong Dat said his agency would launch a separate probe into the controversy.

All the individuals named by the papers have dismissed the allegations.

Vietnam launches probe into people and businesses named in Panama Papers - Thai PBS English News