Panama Papers: World Leaders & Rich Criminals Exposed (Video)
HAVANA TIMES — “The biggest leak in the history of data journalism just went live, and it’s about corruption.” That is what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted about the Panama Papers, which were released Sunday and reveal how the rich and powerful in numerous countries use tax havens to hide their wealth.
Some 11.5 million files were leaked from one of the world’s most secretive offshore companies, Mossack Fonseca, a law firm based in Panama, and passed to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then pored over by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The revelations implicate 12 heads of state and a number of other politicians, their family members and close associates, including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers of Britain, Iceland and Pakistan, and the president of Ukraine.
On Monday, one of the largest protests in Iceland’s history demanded Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson step down after the leaked files revealed he and his wife were hiding investments worth millions of dollars behind a secretive offshore company.
We are joined from Munich by Frederik Obermaier, co-author of the Panama Papers story. He is an investigative reporter at Germany’s leading newspaper, the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, and co-author of the book “Panama Papers: The Story of a Worldwide Revelation,” just released today in Germany. We also speak with Michael Hudson, senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which published the Panama Papers.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/us-corporations-14-trillion-hidden-tax-havens-oxfam
The Panama Papers leak includes information about how Cuba & Venezuela used the Mossack Fonseca bank to hide their financial tracks so they could purchase a German made passport system. The passport system was then used to create false passports for Hezbollah terrorists.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/04/05/panama-papers-venezuela-cuba-conspired-passports/
A 2015 report estimated that the government of Venezuela has issued over 500 passports to members of the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/22/report-over-300-hezbollah-operatives-secured-venezuelan-passports-after-2007/
Have you ever wondered why Hezbollah has offices in Venezuela & Cuba? Well, now you know.
http://english.aawsat.com/2016/01/article55346928/hezbollah-members-use-latin-passports-to-travel
Rumors abound about the Castro family as a result of this leak. Word search Castro and the board lights up. As Griffin notes, quite a few of the references are connected to Venezuelan high officials. Stay tuned Circles.
Dear Conga, although 90 percent of our articles focus on Cuba we also have a World section and especially cover important events like the disclosure of the Panama Papers. We have no insider information.
wondering what this post is doing in Havana Times or is there something you know that is not public yet?
Some of the very richest criminals have been exposed in this Panama Papers scandal, including the family and associates of the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez,
“Venezuela” shows up on 241,000 documents in the Panama Papers. Leaked files include names of ex-presidential security chief and wife, who amassed a fortune.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/04/inenglish/1459767530_103109.html