Section: The Epoch Times (USA)
CEO Says Malaysia Airlines Has First Monthly Profit in Years
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The chief executive of Malaysia Airlines said Wednesday that the carrier recorded a profit in February, its first positive monthly result in years, and is on track to return to the black by 2018. In an interview with The Associated Press, CEO Christoph Mueller described the airline as a “ship that has many leaks,” but said...
Panama Rejects Money-Launder Label Following Documents Leak
PANAMA CITY—Panamanians have long shrugged off their country’s checkered reputation as a financial haven for drug lords, tax dodgers and corrupt oligarchs. If they’re crooks, they’ve learned from the world’s wealthy nations, they like to joke. That same defensiveness has re-emerged amid the fallout from the leak of 11.5...
Panama Papers: Spain Officials Investigate Lionel Messi, Messi Sues Newspaper for Defamation
Spanish tax officials said on April 4 they are investigating accusations of tax irregularities involving international soccer star Lionel Messi after the massive Mossack Fonseca data leak from Panama. Messi’s family released a statement claiming they are not guilty of any wrongdoing. They also threatened to hit media outlets with a lawsuit...
Panama Papers: Ukrainian President Poroshenko Established Secret Company During Bloody Ukraine Crisis
The Panama Papers have placed politicians under a microscope, and the Ukrainian president is one of them. The papers consist of an unprecedented data leak that reveals tax information and offshore accounts that are linked to politicians, celebrities, drug traffickers, and fraudsters, according to the international group of journalists (ICIJ) that...
US Justice Dept and Foreign Officials Respond to Panama Papers
The massive data leak from the law firm Mossack Fonseca on April 3 revealed how the rich and powerful hide their money offshore. No big names have popped up yet when it comes to the U.S., but the breached data reported 3,072 companies, 441 clients, 221 beneficiaries, and 3467 shareholders related to the U.S. U.S. Justice Department Peter Carr...
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...
News Group Claims Huge Trove of Data on Offshore Accounts
BERLIN—An international coalition of media outlets on Sunday published what it said was an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of the rich and famous, based on a vast trove of documents provided by an anonymous source. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organization based in Washington,...
Is Belgium’s Nuclear Security Up to Scratch?
Belgium’s counterterrorism efforts are once again being called into question following the recent tragedies in Brussels. The attacks were carried out against soft targets—the public check-in area of Brussels Airport and Maelbeek metro station—but a series of unusual and suspicious occurrences were also reported at nuclear facilities in the...
Ghosts of Babi Yar: A Visit to the Ravine Where Nazis Murdered 150,000
KYIV, Ukraine—Seventy-four years later, I reached up and broke off a small piece of a branch that was long and gray. It was bent in the strange, contorted ways it had blindly grown to look for light here at the cold bottom of the ravine, where the forest canopy above had turned the sunny spring day into dark winter’s night. The branch...
Has Europe Blinked on Defeating ISIS in the Middle East?
KYIV, Ukraine—The terrorist attacks in Brussels so far have produced an internal evaluation of Belgium’s intelligence and law enforcement missteps, rather than the escalated airstrikes on Islamist targets in Syria that quickly followed the deadly attacks in Paris. Two days after the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, French...
