The Pandora Papers - Offshore Wealth Exposed, Again

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58780465
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

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Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.

They reveal the King of Jordan secretly amassed £70m of UK and US property.

They also show how ex-UK PM Tony Blair and his wife saved £312,000 in stamp duty when they bought a London office.

The couple bought an offshore firm that owned the building.

The leak also links Russian President Vladimir Putin to secret assets in Monaco, and shows the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - facing an election later this week - failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France.

BBC Panorama in a joint investigation with the Guardian and the other media partners have had access to nearly 12 million documents and files from 14 financial services companies in countries including the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Belize, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Switzerland.

The documents reveal the owners of some of the 95,000 offshore firms behind the purchases.

[Vaspinne]

Cool, so nothing is going to happen and a few journalists will be "committing suicide" like the last time right?

[TsingTao]

I expect that's the short version, yeah.

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