Bethan McKernan, The Independent: The most incredible details from the Panama Papers investigation
Millions of confidential documents belonging to a secretive law firm servicing the world's wealthy were leaked on Sunday, exposing how the one per cent hide their money through offshore companies.
The 'Panama Papers', as they have been dubbed, contain links to 72 current or former heads of state, dictators and other powerful clients of secretive Panamaian lawfirm Mossack Fonseca.
The leak is being touted as the biggest in history - and the full range of potential consequences is as of yet unknown.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its partners in more than 100 countries are raking through the more than 11 million documents for evidence of tax evasion, sanction avoidance and money laundering among the work done for clients who wanted secrecy for non-criminal reasons.
Just some of the more baffling details that have come to light include:
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 6, 2016
Panama Papers: Spies and shadowy allies lurk in secret, thanks to firm’s bag of tricks -- Will Fitzgibbon, News and Observer
The Panama Papers Vindicate the NSA -- Tom Rogan, NRO
The Panama Papers’ Sprawling Web of Corruption -- New York Times editorial
Iceland is in crisis mode. It feels like 2009 all over again -- Eirikur Bergmann, The Guardian
Is Egypt the key to a Hamas, Fatah reconciliation? -- Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor
Nobody wants to stay in Lebanon. It’s a miserable life -- Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian
South China Sea: Is Beijing making a new 'strategic strait'? -- Everett Rosenfeld, CNBC
Why China will go rogue -- Narciso Reyes Jr., Inquirer
Chinese politics: Beware the cult of Xi -- The Economist
Public discontent rises as Jacob Zuma's ship sinks in South Africa -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
Obama Should Return His Nobel Peace Prize -- Barry M. Blechman, National Interest
What If Mexico Really Does Pay for Trump’s Wall? -- Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
Chernobyl - wilderness regained -- Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters
The 10 countries that execute the most people -- Alex Lockie, Business Insider
An Abu Ghraib Torturer Speaks Out -- Matt Gallagher, Daily Beast
1 comment:
Only as much as it embarrasses people like David Cameron, not that corrupt weasels will do anything about it.
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