The proof is in the Putin: thread for Panama Papers/Mossack Fonseca leaks.

he terminated interview when pressed

Bit of spin there tbh.

incredible to look at this http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry pan across london in particular but the whole of the country and get an idea of the land and buildings owned by companies registered in these places transparently for dodgy tax reasons

Swiss police has carried out a raid on UEFA headquarters.

Isn't another possible explanation for there not being a lot of Americans just that there are a bunch of other firms that do this kind of work and maybe this one just didn't have a lot of American clients?

Yes. And Suddeutsch Zeitung has implied the leak with all the Americans in it is still to come, I swear I read that somewhere.

http://www.vocativ.com/305557/the-most-bonkers-panama-papers-conspiracy-theories/

Wasn't here but the quote is referenced; also, lol

This is interesting:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/monicamark/the-panama-papers-may-help-unravel-the-corruption-deal-of-th?utm_term=.vuej1BB1o3#.irO3OllOgx

Strong echoes of the Russian 'cash for shares' scandals of the 90s where state assets were given away for nothing (accompanied by huge bribes) to be sold for billions further down the track.

The dramatic change in ownership was pushed through just a few days before former dictator Lansana Conté died at age 74 in December 2008. BSGR didn’t actually pay for the mine, but instead pledged to invest $165 million into exploring and upgrading it. Two years later, they sold 51% of their stake to another company — this time for $2.5 billion.

Put another way, BSGR netted a profit of some $2.2 billion — then worth twice the entire GDP of Guinea — in return for investing just $165 million. That prompted Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese billionaire whose foundation promotes good governance in Africa, to ask whether “the Guineans who did that deal” were “idiots, or criminals, or both.”

interesting that not a single guardian article that refers to the panama papers has an open comments thread.

but also a blessed relief

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-an-obscure-nonprofit-in-washington-protects-tax-havens-for-the-rich/2016/06/09/ab03e70a-2908-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_panama-1020a-top%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

In the eight-page fundraising document discovered by The Post, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity in Alexandria, Va., said that it had already persuaded the Bush administration to thwart an international effort to require more transparency from tax havens. Now the center was promising to derail similar reforms in legislation before Congress.

Among those it planned to contact: lawmakers, key figures in the Bush White House, the Treasury Department, the State Department and the Office of Management and Budget.

...

In emails and documents sent to Mossack Fonseca between 2001 and 2012, the center said it had parlayed its access into action with the support of former House majority leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), high-ranking Treasury Department officials in the Bush administration, and members of key congressional committees that regulate U.S. tax and spending policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist?CMP=twt_gu

Shit man

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/18/guardian-bbc-legal-action-paradise-papers

Guardian getting sued by Appleby for publishing what they say were confidential, stolen documents.

ICIJ publishes West Africa Leaks and the results are as expected. Resource extraction continues, only faster and worse:
https://www.icij.org/investigations/west-africa-leaks/

Actress Isabelle Adjani, who was named in the Panama Papers, to be tried for tax evasion

French actress Isabelle Adjani is facing tax fraud and money laundering charges partly tied to Panama Papers revelations.

The star, who reportedly denies any wrongdoing, will be tried in Paris in October. She has been called to appear on Oct. 19. Judicial sources told French media that Adjani, 68, is accused of separate financial crimes.

In the first instance, she is alleged to have received a donation of two million euros from a Senegalese businessman, Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye, “under the guise of a loan.” This is said to have enabled Ndiaye, who is also an Olympic official, to evade transfer duties.

In the second, she is accused of passing 119,000 euros to an unknown beneficiary via an offshore company in 2014.

Adjani was revealed to be a shareholder of the offshore company, Deckert Investments Limited, by the 2016 Panama Papers investigation.

Based on that information, France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office reportedly opened its investigation into her at the end of 2016.