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.

This is bound to be one of the greatest corruption cases in the world

http://www.afrivid.net/2016/04/lionel-messi-vladimir-putin-and-top.html

Can these people be punished?

OP, did you actually see Putin`s name on the list? I saw David Cameron`s dad on the list o

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Are you surprised? The West would do anything to tarnish Putin right now. Desperados!!!

A friend of Putin's friend's name is on the list so they decided to put Putin's picture all over the media even though his name is not on the list. But David Cameron's father's name is there and their family business is part of that bullshi.t list but no, this has nothing to do with Cameron? This is just an information attack on America's enemy and a few allies will be sacrificed but Cameron is definitely not part of them. I am looking forward to Putin turning this information war in his own favor to grow his popularity and acceptance like he did with the hybrid war and Syrian war. Viva La Putin.

NaijaTalkTown:
A friend of Putin's friend's name is on the list so they decided to put Putin's picture all over the media even though his name is not on the list. But David Cameron's father's name is there and their family business is part of that bullshi.t list but no, this has nothing to do with Cameron? This is just an information attack on America's enemy and a few allies will be sacrificed but Cameron is definitely not part of them. I am looking forward to Putin turning this information war in his own favor to grow his popularity and acceptance like he did with the hybrid war and Syrian war. Viva La Putin.

What people don't seem to understand is thatPutin is fulfilling a divine ministry and no one can pull him down. Remember who God don bless no one can curse.

This is not the first malicious publication against the servant of God, yet in all their campaign of calumny, the man keeps moving from height to height, And they keep failing and they will continue to fail until there won't be any rising for them.

The Kremlin actually warned of an impending information spin concerning Putin some days ago.

Isn't it funny how Putin himself apparently isn't listed but he's picture is all in the Western news headlines? I wanted to share it but couldn't come around to doing so.
Here it is:

http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/03/kremlin-warns-of-impending-information.html?m=1

NaijaTalkTown:
A friend of Putin's friend's name is on the list so they decided to put Putin's picture all over the media even though his name is not on the list. But David Cameron's father's name is there and their family business is part of that bullshi.t list but no, this has nothing to do with Cameron? This is just an information attack on America's enemy and a few allies will be sacrificed but Cameron is definitely not part of them. I am looking forward to Putin turning this information war in his own favor to grow his popularity and acceptance like he did with the hybrid war and Syrian war. Viva La Putin.

Read this. Although he also says Putin is bent and still provides no proof

CORPORATE MEDIA GATEKEEPERS PROTECT WESTERN 1% FROM PANAMA LEAK
4 April 2016


Republished with permission from craigmurray.org

Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.

Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.

But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.

The Suddeutsche Zeitung, which received the leak, gives a detailed explanation of the methodology the corporate media used to search the files. The main search they have done is for names associated with breaking UN sanctions regimes. The Guardian reports this too and helpfully lists those countries as Zimbabwe, North Korea, Russia and Syria. The filtering of this Mossack Fonseca information by the corporate media follows a direct western governmental agenda. There is no mention at all of use of Mossack Fonseca by massive western corporations or western billionaires – the main customers. And the Guardian is quick to reassure that “much of the leaked material will remain private.”

What do you expect? The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Theirfunders include

Ford Foundation
Carnegie Endowment
Rockefeller Family Fund
W K Kellogg Foundation
Open Society Foundation (Soros)

among many others. Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished.

Expect hits at Russia, Iran and Syria and some tiny “balancing” western country like Iceland. A superannuated UK peer or two will be sacrificed – someone already with dementia.

The corporate media – the Guardian and BBC in the UK – have exclusive access to the database which you and I cannot see. They are protecting themselves from even seeing western corporations’ sensitive information by only looking at those documents which are brought up by specific searches such as UN sanctions busters. Never forget the Guardian smashed its copies of the Snowden files on the instruction of MI6.

What if they did Mossack Fonseca database searches on the owners of all the corporate media and their companies, and all the editors and senior corporate media journalists? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on all the most senior people at the BBC? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every donor to the Center for Public Integrity and their companies?

What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every listed company in the western stock exchanges, and on every western millionaire they could trace?

That would be much more interesting. I know Russia and China are corrupt, you don’t have to tell me that. What if you look at things that we might, here in the west, be able to rise up and do something about?

And what if you corporate lapdogs let the people see the actual data?

Sharap there, its not putin its his close associates. Why una no mention the Cameron family?