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    World Leaders Scramble After Massive Leak On Offshore Intrigues
    Apr04

    World Leaders Scramble After Massive Leak On Offshore Intrigues

    World leaders have scrambled to react to the leak of a trove of documents linking many of them to secretive offshore companies that enabled vast sums of money to move around the world hidden from law enforcement and regulators. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Bombshell Revelations From the Panama Papers Show Just How Much We Need Financial Transparency
    Apr04

    Bombshell Revelations From the Panama Papers Show Just How Much We Need Financial Transparency

    James CardenGiven the American media’s failure to cover the Ukrainian government’s corruption, the reaction to the report’s revelations about reigning president-oligarch Petro Poroshenko has been muted. …read more Source: The...

    Jailed Ukrainian Pilot ‘To Begin Dry Hunger Strike’
    Apr04

    Jailed Ukrainian Pilot ‘To Begin Dry Hunger Strike’

    Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko, who has been sentenced by a Russian court to 22 years in prison, will begin a dry hunger strike on April 6, her defense lawyers say. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Panama Papers: Naming names of powerful officials
    Apr04

    Panama Papers: Naming names of powerful officials

    Associates of Putin, Assad and Poroshenko are among those implicated in offshore dealings. …read more Source: USA...

    Will the ‘Panama Papers’ Bring Down Ukraine’s Chocolate King?
    Apr04

    Will the ‘Panama Papers’ Bring Down Ukraine’s Chocolate King?

    Leaked documents have revealed a secret offshore company setup in Poroshenko’s name and not disclosed in his public income statements. …read more Source: Foreign...

    6 Things You Need to Know About the Bombshell ‘Panama Papers’ Leak
    Apr04

    6 Things You Need to Know About the Bombshell ‘Panama Papers’ Leak

    Anonymous whistleblower unloads massive trove of files exposing how world leaders and other elites hide money and evade taxes. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and over 100 other media partners dropped the explosive “Panama Papers” leak on Sunday. The trove is described by...

    5 Things You Need to Know About the Panama Papers
    Apr04

    5 Things You Need to Know About the Panama Papers

    Here’s what you need to know about the massive leak from Panama law firm, Mossack Fonseca: 1. What Are the Panama Papers? One of the biggest leaks in history, The Panama Papers reveal how the rich and powerful, including world leaders, hide their wealth through offshore tax havens. According to The Guardian, the data leak contains 11.5...

    Panama Papers: Ukraine’s President Defiant Despite Impeachment Push
    Apr04

    Panama Papers: Ukraine’s President Defiant Despite Impeachment Push

    While much of the focus on the Panama Papers leak has been on Russia and Vladimir Putin, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko is also under serious pressure. Supposedly anti-corruption, Poroshenko is facing impeachment calls in parliament, after the documents showed that the leader registered an offshore company on the day of a bloody defeat for...

    Panama Papers: Lionel Messi, Jackie Chan and David Cameron’s Father Among Those Named
    Apr04

    Panama Papers: Lionel Messi, Jackie Chan and David Cameron’s Father Among Those Named

    Football stars, internationally reknowned actors and the friends and family of current and former world leaders are among those named in the Panama Papers scandal. On Sunday, more than 100 news outlets around the world published stories on the Panama Papers, the more than 11 million files that were leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack...

    Here’s what we know so far about the leaked Panama papers
    Apr04

    Here’s what we know so far about the leaked Panama papers

    More than 11 million documents from a Panamanian law firm were released over the weekend in a massive data dump that purported to show the company helped clients launder money and evade taxes. A source (unnamed in the media reports) gave the financial and legal documents to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which shared them with the...