"I'm shocked, just shocked!"
Posted on 04/03/2016 4:58:22 PM PDT by fision
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
Files reveal the offshore holdings of 140 politicians and public officials from around the world
◾Current and former world leaders in the data include prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan, the president of Ukraine, and the king of Saudi Arabia
◾More than 214,000 offshore entities appear in the leak, connected to people in more than 200 countries and territories
◾Major banks have driven the creation of hard-to-trace companies in offshore havens
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of 12 current and former world leaders and reveals how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion through banks and shadow companies.
The leak also provides details of the hidden financial dealings of 128 more politicians and public officials around the world.
The cache of 11.5 million records shows how a global industry of law firms and big banks sells financial secrecy to politicians, fraudsters and drug traffickers as well as billionaires, celebrities and sports stars.
These are among the findings of a yearlong investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other news organizations.
The files expose offshore companies controlled by the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan, the king of Saudi Arabia and the children of the president of Azerbaijan.
They also include at least 33 people and companies blacklisted by the U.S. government because of evidence that they’d been involved in wrongdoing, such as doing business with Mexican drug lords, terrorist organizations like Hezbollah or rogue nations like North Korea and Iran.
One of those companies supplied fuel for the aircraft that the Syrian government used to bomb and kill thousands of its own citizens, U.S. authorities have charged.
“These findings show how deeply ingrained harmful practices and criminality are in the offshore world,” said Gabriel Zucman, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley and author of “The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens.” Zucman, who was briefed on the media partners’ investigation, said the release of the leaked documents should prompt governments to seek “concrete sanctions” against jurisdictions and institutions that peddle offshore secrecy.
9This is a very comprehensive report Go to read the whole thing)
I want to see the Clinton Foundation entries.
I wonder how the Clintons are sleeping tonight?
Vallerie Jarret..???
REALLY HOPING..!
This is no surprise to anyone.
"I'm shocked, just shocked!"
Bkmrk.
“ICIJ” is SOS-FUNDED Journalism.
Take note of who the targets are, not a single Soros Cabal politician on the list.
UNLIKE the UnaOil scandal, which the US Media is flat-out refusing to cover, and involves many members of the Soros Billionaires Cabal, and links to Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation.
Funny how this comes out just days after the UNAOIL raids, isn’t it??
later
: )
Not shocked.
What’s so interesting here? The rich get richer and make sure that they are unaffected by any laws that they or their cronies enact.
All the big papers are reporting this. ICIJ is the organization that links the sources; i.e. the document linked to at the top of this page is the only comprehensive source of data on this scandal.
Is it possible.....could Trump be capable of dirty tricks?
Fight fire with fire???
Is the National Bank of Anguilla included?
Maybe they will find the 250 mil bribe Marc Rich gave for his pardon.
And everybody gives if a pass because they hope to be one of them someday.
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