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[Morrigan Stark]

Pretty scary it doesn't even get a mention on the major US news sites, but not unexpected.

Glad to see a French Canadian newspaper reported on it, at least.

http://www.lapresse.ca/internationa...rgement-utilises-par-des-leaders-mondiaux.php

English Canadian media also reported on it... but it's not a major headline, barely frontpage:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/panama-leak-offshore-records-putin-messi-money-1.3518951

The Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of United States individuals in the documents, saying to "Just wait for what is coming next".

yikes

Hah, nice. I wish I could hope for some real repercussions though...

 

[Out 1]

The Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of United States individuals in the documents, saying to "Just wait for what is coming next".

yikes

I'm guessing this thread is going to blow up when that happens.

 

[sphagnum]

Literally every single member of Congress, SCOTUS, and POTUS.

 

[HariKari]

The Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of United States individuals in the documents, saying to "Just wait for what is coming next".

yikes

Implicated sitting politicians in an election year? I can't even imagine...

 

[Gunztrix]

Literally every single member of Congress, SCOTUS, and POTUS.

This needs to happen.

Maybe we'll see the candidates names too.

 

[Pennywise]

Implicated sitting politicians in an election year? I can't even imagine...

I bet the majority will be economic based figures, which isn't the biggest suprise.

Maybe we will find a few gems here and there.

Damn what a massive job and that it all went unnoticed is even better.

 

[Oynox]

https://panamapapers.icij.org/

right hand side, sign up for updates

Did that as soon as I read the OP. But got nothing yet, of course. Hopefully they will send good summaries. The SZ in Germany hides some articles for free users, offering them only to subscribers.

The Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of United States individuals in the documents, saying to "Just wait for what is coming next".

yikes

Would be interesting to see if any candidates or relatives or friends or whoever connected to them was involved....

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Literally every single member of Congress, SCOTUS, and POTUS.

What happens if all the Presidential candidates too.

Too bad it's a two-party system amirite

 

[mysocksarepink]

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/716717197209501698

"PM David Cameron implicated via father in #PanamaPapers"


documents in the link

 

[ArgentPixel]

I hope something big comes of all this, and that it benefits humanity as a whole for exposing these fraudsters, cheats, and liars.

 

[Oynox]

Damn what a massive job and that it all went unnoticed is even better.

Video game industry should try that as well!

 

[Tugatrix]

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/716717197209501698

"PM David Cameron implicated via father in #PanamaPapers"


documents in the link

He must be thinking this is worst than the one about the pig head

 

[HariKari]

149 of 11 million documents released so far.

 

[Gunztrix]

What are the chances that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's name shows up. Legends

 

[mysocksarepink]

What are the chances that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's name shows up. Legends

possibly none

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/arch...tekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/


"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. Their funders include

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

 

[Phased]

What are the chances that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's name shows up. Legends

Likely zero. If you see anyone in the U.S implicated it'll probably be people from major lobbying firms and strategists behind the scenes.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Mainstream US media is a fucking joke. Not one mention on CNN frontpage last time I checked.

 

[HariKari]

They put a map up showing the number of companies/clients involved, here's the US:

COMPANIES
3072

CLIENTS
441

BENEFICIARIES
211

https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a9c-0e5db1731f59/embed_map

edit: no surprise at Hong Kong's numbers...

38k companies in Switzerland

 

[chadskin]

The Miami Herald has a few stories related to Miami, Brazil and Mexico:

1) How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami’s luxury real-estate boom
2) Brazil’s former top judge hid price he paid for Miami condo
3) A well-connected Mexican tycoon stashes a fortune overseas

... and teases the stories that are yet to come:
4) The middlemen who create a pipeline
5) Secret offshore companies trace back to condo featured on Miami Vice
6) How a drug lord washed her profits
7) Fast-living Italian fugitive used Miami firms in alleged laundering scheme
8) The new offshore haven: Wyoming
9) Stoner gun-runner drama shows up in offshore leaks

 

[Famassu]

It depends on who own the news studios. If parent companies are involved they probably wouldn't talk much about it. Internet websites, tv outside of the US, radio, and newspapers though...

At least in Finland, the work is being done by YLE, our national broadcast company, so there shouldn't be any conflicting interests with them and parent companies because they don't have one. And I'd like to think that our government isn't so corrupt or have so much power over them that they could keep things hush hush.

 

[Macho Madness]

Yeah unfortunately unless this has major implications for a high-ranking US politician, this has short legs in our media cycle.

 

[cacildo]

possibly none

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/arch...tekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/


"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. Their funders include

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

Well, this is... not good

 

[noshten]

I thought wikileaks already have the docs

 

[diablos991]

possibly none

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/arch...tekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/


"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. Their funders include

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

Soros is involved. Lol
Wonder what those implicated in this "leak" did to piss him off?

 

[Blablurn]

welp...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/apr/03/icelands-prime-minister-walks-out-of-interview-over-tax-haven-question-video

Edit: beaten

 

[SiteSeer]

possibly none

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/arch...tekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/


"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. Their funders include

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

they'll drag second and third world names out (putin looks like hes the poster child of these papers so far) but obfuscate their own dealings. any possibility we'll see a true unbiased report on these or will these papers only be redirected and framed to further the establishment agenda?

 

[mysocksarepink]

they'll drag second and third world names out (putin looks like hes the poster child of these papers so far) but obfuscate their own dealings. any possibility we'll see a true unbiased report on these or will these papers only be redirected and framed to further the establishment agenda?

that's what the article I linked delves into. Pointing at Syria, the rest of the middle east, and Russia seem to be more important than anything else. Painting the east as villainous and monstrous while the west slides by unscathed.

time will tell though, on the interactive map linked here virtually every western country (including the US) had companies / holdings so we'll see going forward

 

[Oynox]

Soros is involved. Lol
Wonder what those implicated in this "leak" did to piss him off?

Read this name sometime before in this thread. Did a quick read about Soros on Wikipedia, but how exactly is Soros linked to the elections?

 

[HariKari]

they'll drag second and third world names out (putin looks like hes the poster child of these papers so far) but obfuscate their own dealings. any possibility we'll see a true unbiased report on these or will these papers only be redirected and framed to further the establishment agenda?

Wikileaks supposedly has all of the documents. I'm reading that major US partners were kept out of the investigation on purpose.

 

[mysocksarepink]

the number of intermediaries in each country.

source: wikileaks

 

[SmartBase]

Besides giving IR and IB students some juicy material for their work and making a few state officials uncomfortable, what can we actually expect from this? Does anyone even care about private players?

 

[Aztechnology]

Oh man I can't wait to see what they dredge up here in the States.

 

[Famassu]

they'll drag second and third world names out (putin looks like hes the poster child of these papers so far) but obfuscate their own dealings. any possibility we'll see a true unbiased report on these or will these papers only be redirected and framed to further the establishment agenda?

Like I pointed out, not all the media delving into these leaks are owned by corporations. So unless they actually somehow prevent access to a portion of these leaked files, everything should come out eventually, no matter who it is it'll condemn. They've already revealed Cameron's father, Iceland's PM and one of the biggest Northern European banks (Nordea) being neck deep in these dealings, so it's not like they are doing nothing in regards to Europe other than Russia. Putin is just a pretty huge fucking deal considering how little we know of anything going on in those circles.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Glad to see a French Canadian newspaper reported on it, at least.

http://www.lapresse.ca/internationa...rgement-utilises-par-des-leaders-mondiaux.php

English Canadian media also reported on it... but it's not a major headline, barely frontpage:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/panama-leak-offshore-records-putin-messi-money-1.3518951

It's on the French CBC front page. Since they were involved, it seems no Canadian names showed up because they didn't mention any.

 

[diablos991]

Besides giving IR and IB students some juicy material for their work and making a few state officials uncomfortable, what can we actually expect from this? Does anyone even care about private players?

Nobody will care. This sort of scandal is harder for people to wrap around than other popular scandals.

This leak is Soros and company taking jabs at people they don't like.

 

[Neuromancer]

How do you leak terabytes

Someone on the inside has balls of steel.

 

[chadskin]

Wikileaks supposedly has all of the documents. I'm reading that major US partners were kept out of the investigation on purpose.

WikiLeaks doesn't and it'd be irresponsible to publish them, considering the amount of very personal information (passport copies, bank accounts, credit card details and many more) they contain and considering that not everyone implicated in these documents is necessarily guilty of wrongdoings. I like(d) WikiLeaks but their attempt to stay relevant through this when, as it turned out, they had nothing to do with this is rather poor.

With regards to the "Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung" tweeting "Just wait for what is coming next":
1) he's the "Head of Digital" for SZ
2) that's not what he meant:

No, it just means: relax. What's in the files will ne published without fear or favor.

https://twitter.com/ploechinger/status/716773530436825088?lang=de

 

[Elfforkusu]

The Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of United States individuals in the documents, saying to "Just wait for what is coming next".

yikes

Excellent.

Hopefully the NY Times gets the ok from the US state department to run the story!

 

[Damerman]

BBC is reporting this on their front page, I don't see shit from US media.

 

[Macho Madness]

BBC is reporting this on their front page, I don't see shit from US media.

NPR is covering it.

Washington Post has a story up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...437e1e-f839-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html

Others will follow. The more individual stories that come out, the more it will be covered. The leak itself will make little news.

 

[Ty4on]

https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a9c-0e5db1731f59/embed_map

edit: no surprise at Hong Kong's numbers...

38k companies in Switzerland

lol at Isle of Man
At first I was wondering why there was a country between Ireland and the UK.

 

[Seraph_Nicholas]

I hope the IRS and similar agencies across the world are sharpening their knives.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Yes. This is pleases me greatly. I hate the fact that wealthy people succeed at hiding their money, which could be used to help less fortunate people.

Hope that countries where implicated people are, put their tax collecting agencies to work.

 

[Damerman]

NPR is covering it.

Washington Post has a story up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...437e1e-f839-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html

Others will follow. The more individual stories that come out, the more it will be covered. The leak itself will make little news.

thank you for posting this. I'm still looking through all the outlets i know.

 

[Annubis]

On Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/panama-leak-offshore-records-putin-messi-money-1.3518951

Makes sense.
Most of the rich folks in Canada are low profile.

 

[Macho Madness]

thank you for posting this. I'm still looking through all the outlets i know.

AP is now on it: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b34c...paper-claim-huge-trove-data-offshore-accounts

 

[chadskin]

And so it begins

Australian tax office probes hundreds for possible tax evasion after Panama Papers leak

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) said on Monday it is investigating more than 800 wealthy clients of a Panama law firm for possible tax evasion.

"Currently we have identified over 800 individual taxpayers and we have now linked over 120 of them to an associate offshore service provider located in Hong Kong," the Australian tax office said in a statement emailed to Reuters. It did not name the Hong Kong company.

ATO Deputy Commissioner Michael Cranston said his office was working with the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Crime Commission and anti-money laundering regulator AUSTRAC to further cross-check the data.

"Some cases may be referred to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce," Cranston said in the statement. "The message is clear - taxpayers can't rely on these secret arrangements being kept secret and we will act on any information that is provided to us."

 

[Walpurgis]

149 of 11 million documents released so far.

Holy shit.

They put a map up showing the number of companies/clients involved, here's the US:



https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a9c-0e5db1731f59/embed_map

Wtf at Canada compared to the U.S. Adjusting for population, Canada is a dump.

It's on the French CBC front page. Since they were involved, it seems no Canadian names showed up because they didn't mention any.

What?! I can't believe that. I've had some strong suspicions about my province's premier and there's the entire senate, also plenty of idiot MPs to make it onto this list. I think they will show up in an update.

 

[Walpurgis]

On Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/panama-leak-offshore-records-putin-messi-money-1.3518951

Wow.

Spoiler

I guess I should be happy but I'm not convinced.

 

[Agent Cooper]

I read that Jackie Chan is in there somewhere.