People are now able to search for their names in the Panama Papers through a database provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on May 9.
President Obama called on Congress May 6 to fully close loopholes that allow tax evasion, a day after his administration announced a set of new financial regulations.
After the release of the Panama Papers, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa boasted that unlike other nations, his country had not been involved with Mossack Fonseca, but it’s not all true.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, asked to speak to journalists who participated in the Panama Papers project. Bharara is already investigating some of the Americans mentioned in the Panama Papers, one of them is president of New York Global Group, Benjamin Wey.
The Panama Papers have exposed the largest financial crime scandal of our lifetimes. But what has been uncovered by the Panama Papers is much more dangerous than simply greed and corruption.
The Panama Papers show that Mossack Fonseca falsely used the name of the Red Cross and other charity agencies routinely to help hide the origin of millions of dollars in mysterious funds, said two newspapers on April 10.
A video shows a UK Labor MP suspended from the Commons chamber after his “dodgy Dave” jibe over the prime minister David Cameron’s finances on April 11.
After David Cameron’s father was named as a client of Mossack Fonseca in the Panama Papers, the British prime minister admitted on April 7 that he profited from offshore holdings.
The early Russian media reaction to the claims from the Panama Papers that Putin’s close associate channeled more than $2 billion to offshore companies has been quite predictable: a combination of denial, counter-claims of poor journalism and, of course, silence.
Before this week, Panama was mostly associated with the Panama Canal and as a stop-over for international flights to South America. This has changed with the publication of the Panama Papers.