What are the Panama Papers? A guide to the biggest data leak in history
What is Mossack Fonseca, how big is it, and who uses offshore firms? Key questions about one of the biggest ever data leaks
The leak, given to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous whistleblower, was handled collaboratively by 400 journalists from more than 100 media organizations, over 80 countries.
"The Guardian notes that some of the biggest players connected to these offshore accounts include Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif,Ayad Allawi, ex-interim prime minister and former vice-president of Iraq; Ukranian president Petro Poroshenko; Alaa Mubarak, son of Egypt’s former president; and Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.
Most notably, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been connected to accounts totaling $2 billion, taken out in the name of his closest friend and associate, musician Sergei Roldugin. His trail of money from the accounts was even used on loan to a private ski resort where his younger daughter, Katerina, was married in 2013."
And it's not over yet. https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/716771686482202625
red herring most dont have to dodge taxes star bucks facebook ect another bullshit story
I saw that +John Lewis! I'll be curious to see what else shakes out.
+michael joseph Heavey That's not even a real sentence… it's just a bunch of words strung together. Additionally, this has nothing to do with corporate taxes but individuals.