Panama City: It’s been a year since the Panama Papers burst on the scene. The scandal has rocked governments, exposed high-profile personalities, triggered scores of investigations around the world and dealt a blow to Panama as an offshore financial hub. What are the Panama Papers? A trove of 11.5 million digital records from the Panamanian […]
New report shows urgent action needed to keep corrupt cash out of luxury goods market Issued by Transparency International Secretariat In time for the first anniversary of the release of the Panama Papers, Transparency International will publish on 3 April a report exposing how luxury goods dealers rarely perform adequate due diligence, allowing corrupt customers to spend their […]
PANAMA CITY: It’s been a year since the Panama Papers burst on the scene. The scandal has rocked governments, exposed high-profile personalities, triggered scores of investigations around the world and dealt a blow to Panama as an offshore financial hub. A trove of 11.5 million digital records from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that […]
Friday, 31 March 2017 By by Adrian Darbyshire adrian.darbyshire@iomtoday.co.im Twitter:@iomAdrian in Business Premier Group IoM’s brochure promoted intelligent and innovative investment A troubled fund manager now in liquidation had links to the Panama Papers, it has emerged. Premier Group Isle of Man went into voluntary liquidation earlier this year. One of the funds it managed […]
Panama City: It’s been a year since the Panama Papers burst on the scene. The scandal has rocked governments, exposed high-profile personalities, triggered scores of investigations around the world and dealt a blow to Panama as an offshore financial hub. What are the Panama Papers? A trove of 11.5 million digital records from the Panamanian […]
PANAMA CITY: It’s been a year since the Panama Papers burst on the scene. The scandal has rocked governments, exposed high-profile personalities, triggered scores of investigations around the world and dealt a blow to Panama as an offshore financial hub. A trove of 11.5 million digital records from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that revealed […]
Indonesia’s ongoing wave of economic nationalism, which has left prospective foreign investors wondering whether they are welcome at all, apparently doesn’t extend to wealthy Indonesians bringing home cash and other assets stashed in offshore havens. Indeed, when the country’s historic nine-month tax amnesty ended today, only 146 trillion rupiah (US$11 billion) in assets had actually […]
PANAMA CITY: Panama has a new tourist attraction: the building hosting the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal. That is why, workers there say, the sign announcing the firm has been taken down from where it used to be outside the dark-tinted edifice in Panama City’s modern […]
PANAMA CITY — It’s been a year since the Panama Papers burst on the scene. The scandal has rocked governments, exposed high-profile personalities, triggered scores of investigations around the world and dealt a blow to Panama as an offshore financial hub. WHAT ARE THE PANAMA PAPERS? A trove of 11.5 million digital records from the […]
Photo: Oleg Nikishin/Getty The sports world is replete with notably wacky commissioners and leaders, and for all the wild shit that the Sepp Blatters and Oleg Tinkovs of the world get up to, the World Chess Federation’s president probably has them all beat. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been the top dog at FIDE since 1995, and […]
New report shows urgent action needed to keep corrupt cash out of luxury goods market Issued by Transparency International Secretariat In time for the first anniversary of the release of the Panama Papers, Transparency International will publish on 3 April a report exposing how luxury goods dealers rarely perform adequate due diligence, allowing corrupt customers to spend their […]
While names like Carter Page, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn dominate headlines amidst allegations of possible collusion with Russia, there’s another angle to Donald Trump’s connections to the former Soviet Union that’s only beginning to receive the attention it deserves. This is the series of murky financial dealings that often make little business sense. Taken […]
The release of the Panama Papers exposed an elaborate kickback scheme whose tentacles spread from the Caribbean island of Aruba to warehouses in Doral to the offshore banking haven of Panama City, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami federal court. The scam was allegedly hatched by Egbert Koolman, an employee of Aruba’s state-owned telecommunications […]
German journalists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, co-authors of the “Panama Papers” investigation, pose on April 7, 2016, in Munich. Photo credit: Christof Stache of AFP via Getty Images. A year has passed since our Panama Papers investigation shook the world and showed how enormous the impact of collaborative journalism can be. Minutes after we […]
Although the demonstrations were unexpectedly large, they had been planned for weeks, sparked by a viral investigative video that Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation released on March 2. The report alleged that Russia’s prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, had accumulated vast real estate holdings through bribery and graft. … read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-protests-navalny_us_58d954e3e4b03787d35ae72d