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The largest in the history of leaking documents can make for a lot of people from the front pages of newspapers fall pale fear. With a database of tax law firm Mossack Fonseca, specializing in investing money in tax havens, leaked 2.6 terabytes of data. 11.5 million documents, more than WikiLeaks revealed in 2010. Edward Snowden or three years later. The case writes wyborcza.biz.
Presidents, prime ministers, royal families …
The services of the law firm used m .in. King of Saudi Arabia, present the presidents of Argentina, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates were the prime ministers of Georgia, Iceland, Iraq, Ukraine, Jordan and Qatar, as well as the former emir of Qatar and the former president of Sudan. That’s not all, Mossack Fonseca also helped, among others, son of former Egyptian President Mubarak, a close friend of Putin, the daughter of the former Prime Minister of China, cousins Syrian President al-Assad, to the late Prime Minister Cameron’s father or sister of the former king of Spain.
And this is only the heads of state and their families. Among other names, including ministers, parliamentarians and directors of banks was also Pawel Piskorski. The former mayor of Warsaw, MEP and chairman of the Democratic Party in 2012. Bought a Panamanian company to purchase the bonds of Singapore. As you can read on the pages of “Panama Papers”, he did so to his account at the Panama not learned Polish banks. In 2015. The company has been dissolved, there is no evidence that the bank accounts were ever established.
Own Goal Messi
Use of tax havens is perfectly legal. International law limits the business activities of persons who serve or served public functions. Why? Because of the position they would work for the good of their interests or get corrupt. Eg., The company president Iceland during the crisis was the creditor banks in the country ruled by him.
President of Russia had to move out of the island approx. Two billion US dollars. His name does not appear in the documents, but there are people around him, including childhood friends. Cellist Sergei Roldugin, best friend of Vladimir Putin and the godfather of his daughter, owns two companies that have their headquarters in tax havens.
Client Office is also Leo Messi, one of the best and richest footballers in the world.
the data sent anonymous source to the German “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”, they were published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. “Election” was one of the 108 editors from 76 countries who participated in the investigation.
The documents relate to clients and business partners law firm since 1977. Until December 2015. This includes 214.5 thousand. companies, foundations and funds. “Some of them could be used for tax optimization, avoidance of economic sanctions or marketed sensitive goods, such as works of art and weapons” – writes wyborcza.biz. The documents are given 23 people lined on sanctions for supporting governments in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Russia, Iran and Syria.
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