Offshore accounts of world leaders exposed

If anyone wishes to read for themselves....

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


Luke Harding
Sunday 3 April 2016 18.50 BST Last modified on Sunday 3 April 2016 19.35 BST
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A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.

An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin’s close circle fabulously wealthy.

Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.

Personally, I couldn't give a flying one about Putin's money - he doesn't pretend to be holier than thou.

I want to know about the Western crooks and hypocrites - and right now, it looks like some in Iceland, despite all that brave talk about jailing bankers, are up to their necks in this.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/iceland-pm-calls-snap-election-offshore-revelations

Iceland’s prime minister is this week expected to face calls in parliament for a snap election after the Panama Papers revealed he is among several leading politicians around the world with links to secretive companies in offshore tax havens.

The financial affairs of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and his wife have come under scrutiny because of details revealed in documents from a Panamanian law firm that helps clients protect their wealth in secretive offshore tax regimes. The files from Mossack Fonseca form the biggest ever data leak to journalists.

Opposition leaders have this weekend been discussing a motion calling for a general election – in effect a confidence vote in the prime minister.

On Monday, Gunnlaugsson is expected to face allegations from opponents that he has hidden a major financial conflict of interest from voters ever since he was elected an MP seven years ago

Oops.

Now, how about the UK and US hypocrites?

Let's have some celebs too, especially the ones that are always lecturing us plebs about how evil and selfish we are.

Hmm. He doesn't lecture the plebs, or hide the fact that he's very wealthy, so he isn't on my personal Hypocrite Register.

Dr David D. Davidson ‏@dailydavedavids 3h3 hours ago
Hopefully the #panamapapers topple the current administration in #iceland and people #votepirate so things become super amazing and awesome.

Pirate party? Don't they steal stuff from other people and hide it away?

this is no surprise to me.

Pedro, I am not jealous of rich people, and I don't care if some of their money is offshore - I'd do the same if I was that rich.

What I DO object to, is politicians and celebrities lecturing the rest of us about how wicked we are, how we've got to do without, when they've been stashing away their own money.

And it looks like there are some prime examples:

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Doria Esther Benaim
‏@doriaebenaimc
Venezuela. 100000 veces nombrada en #panamapapers

What, the bankrupt socialist paradise of Venezuela?

yasir ali ‏@ShayanK02621690 3h3 hours ago
#PanamaPapers the whole sharif family involve in black mony transfer out of pakistan shame on the voter who vote these basterd

That's the Pakistan UK taxpayers give so much aid to because Pakistan is 'poor'.

Keep them coming please......

Robby Delaware ‏@RobbyDelaware 3h3 hours ago
Interesting chatter: why no Americans (like, say, Trump) in #PanamaPapers release - guessing US outlet has it? http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/the-panama-papers-how-the-worlds-rich-and-famous-hide-their-money-offshore …

*sigh*

Why would Trump need to hide money? He puts his to good use. The Clintons and their ilk, on the other hand....

http://fusion.net/story/287227/famous-presidents-shell-companies-trove/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialshare&utm_content=theme_top

MAURICIO MACRI
President of Argentina
Macri — who as president has vowed to fight corruption — is listed, with his Italian tycoon father Francisco and brother Mariano, as a director of Fleg Trading Ltd., incorporated in the Bahamas in 1998 and dissolved in January 2009 — a financial connection Macri didn’t disclose on asset declarations when he was mayor of Buenos Aires. His spokesman said didn’t list Fleg Trading Ltd. as an asset because he had no capital participation in the company. The company, used to participate in interests in Brazil, was related to the family business group. “This is why Maricio Macri was occasionally its director,” he said, reiterating that Macri was not a shareholder.

Hypocrite.

lily wrote:Keep them coming please......

It'll come as no surprise to anyone that the Saudis get rather a lot of mentions, Lily:

KING SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ BIN ABDULRAHMAN AL SAUD
King of Saudi Arabia

Through a series of British Virgin Islands shell companies, the Saudi king appears to have taken out several luxury mortgages for houses in London — at least $34 million worth — and held “a luxury yacht the length of a football field.” The king did not answer the ICIJ’s requests for comment.

But he won't pay for his co-religionist 'refugees', leaving that to the European taxpayer.

Hypocrite.

Of course he is. They are all like it.....

Dr Derek Lynch ‏@derekflynch 3h3 hours ago
Mixed reaxn to #panamapapers - legit tax avoidnce shd not b target of privacy violations. But good to see anti-corrptn hypocrites xposzd

That pretty much sums up my feelings. I would LOVE for rich hypocrites like the Clooneys and Brangelina to be exposed.

Or even better, Jay-Z and BeyBey.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-03/unprecedented-leak-exposes-criminal-financial-dealings-some-worlds-wealthiest-people


The files include a convicted money launderer who claimed he’d arranged a $50,000 illegal campaign contribution used to pay the Watergate burglars, 29 billionaires featured in Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s 500 richest people and movie star Jackie Chan, who has at least six companies managed through the law firm. The files contain new details about major scandals ranging from England’s most infamous gold heist to the bribery allegations convulsing FIFA, the body that rules international soccer

I am afraid I cannot get worked up about Jackie Chan's financial dealings; as far as I am concerned, he earned his money, and hasn't lectured the rest of us.

ZH link:

Finally, for those curious why not a single prominent US name features in the list above, the reason may be found within the snapshot of the non-profit ICIJ's "funding supporters":

Recent ICIJ funders include: Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Waterloo Foundation.

And then, at the bottom of the Panama Papers disclosure site we again find Open Society which, as everyone knows, is another name for George Soros.



Guess we won't be reading anything about the old monster or his lackeys, then.

You are truly blessed, Lily. You appear to live in the only country on the planet that doesn't have any greedy rich people or corrupt politicians.

bb1 wrote:You are truly blessed, Lily. You appear to live in the only country on the planet that doesn't have any greedy rich people or corrupt politicians.

What great fortune, Bonny. We all should celebrate the innocence of our Great Leaders.

bb1 wrote:Francesco Maggioni
‏@fmaggioni
**BREAKING**

ICELAND PM HAS RESIGNED AFTER #PANAMAPAPERS LEAKS -- LOCAL MEDIA

Success!  How many more will follow?  

P.S. I get really sick to death of people like the Clooneys, Pitts etc... with their holier than thou attitudes. They should take them in.....

Hypocrite.