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Here are the famous politicos in ‘the Wikileaks of the mega-rich’
by Fusion Investigative Unit
April 3, 2016 7:59 p.m.


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It’s being called the “Panama Papers” — a trove of 11.5 million leaked internal documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, showing how hundreds of thousands of people with money to hide used anonymous shell corporations across the world. Fusion’s investigative unit was one of the more than 100 media organizations that dove into the files — and found drug dealers, arms traders, human traffickers, fraudsters. We also found no shortage of politicians or their family members.

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Dirty little secrets: Inside the 'Wikileaks of the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful'

Here is a listing of current and former world leaders connected to the files. Check out Dirty Little Secrets, Fusion’s full investigation into the leak and the underworld it exposes.


For additional information on these names and more, read “The Power Players,” an interactive presentation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), from which much of this information is gleaned.

MAURICIO MACRI
President of Argentina
Macri — who as president has vowed to fight corruption — is listed, with his Italian tycoon father Francisco and brother Mariano, as a director of Fleg Trading Ltd., incorporated in the Bahamas in 1998 and dissolved in January 2009 — a financial connection Macri didn’t disclose on asset declarations when he was mayor of Buenos Aires. His spokesman said didn’t list Fleg Trading Ltd. as an asset because he had no capital participation in the company. The company, used to participate in interests in Brazil, was related to the family business group. “This is why Maricio Macri was occasionally its director,” he said, reiterating that Macri was not a shareholder.

AYAD ALLAWI
Former Iraqi PM

A wealthy Iraqi exile who helped lead the push for war with Saddam Hussein, Allawi returned to Iraq to serve as prime minister in 2004. He also served as vice president s recently as last year. From 1985 to 2013, Mossack Fonseca helped run his Panama-registered company I.M.F. Holdings Inc. I.M.F. owned a house in Kingston upon Thames, England worth roughly $1.5 million, and another offshore company of his, Moonlight Estates Ltd., held a property in London. Representatives for Allawi confirmed that he “is the sole director and shareholder of Foxwood Estates Limited, Moonlight Estates Limited and IMF Holdings Inc.,” adding that he ran many of his house purchases through anonymous offshores “in light of an assassination attempt on him.” Indeed, he survived an attempt on his life in 1978, presumably by Saddam Hussein.


SIGMUNDUR DAVID GUNNLAUGSSON
PM of Iceland

A radio personality who led the Progressive Party to victory after the financial crisis of 2008, Gunnlaugsson and his wealthy wife owned a British Virgin Islands shell company called Wintris Inc., that held nearly $4 million in bonds in Iceland’s three major banks. He failed to declare his ownership of Wintris on entering the Parliament in 2009. In March, a TV interviewer asked Gunnlaugsson if he had ever owned an offshore company. “Myself? No,” he said, adding: “Well, the Icelandic companies I have worked with had connections with offshore companies.” A spokesman told the ICIJ that Gunnlaugsson and his family had followed all Icelandic laws.

KING SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ BIN ABDULRAHMAN AL SAUD
King of Saudi Arabia

Through a series of British Virgin Islands shell companies, the Saudi king appears to have taken out several luxury mortgages for houses in London — at least $34 million worth — and held “a luxury yacht the length of a football field.” The king did not answer the ICIJ’s requests for comment.


PETRO POROSHENKO
President of Ukraine

Known as Ukraine’s billionaire “chocoloate king,” Poroshenko swept into office in 2014 vowing reforms that have not yet come. He became the sole shareholder of Prime Asset Partners Limited in 2014, as Russian troops invaded Eastern Ukraine. The following year, Poroshenko vowed to sell most of his assets; news reports said they ultimately ended up in “Prime Asset Capital.” His spokesman told the ICIJ said that “creation of the trust and related corporate structures had no relation to political and military events in Ukraine,” adding that his assets held by an independently managed fund — Prime Asset Capital.

RAMI AND HAFEZ MAKHLOUF
Cousins of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

“For years, any foreign company seeking to do business in Syria had to be cleared by Rami, who controlled key economic sectors such as oil and telecommunications. Hafez, a general in charge of Syria’s intelligence and security apparatus, has been suspected of helping his older brother intimidate business rivals.” The cousins have been subjected to international financial sanctions and appear to have used multiple offshore accounts to siphon wealth from Syrian industry and avoid freezes on their assets. In early 2011, emails show employees at Mossack Fonseca discussing U.S. sanctions and allegations of bribery and corruption made against members of the Makhlouf family. By that June, Mossack had cut its ties with the Makhloufs.


KOJO ANNAN
Son of ex-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

Then only son of former U.N. head Kofi Annan courted controversy in 1998, when a firm of his won a big contract under the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food humanitarian program in Iraq. An inquiry eventually cleared father and son of any corruption in the deal. Internal Mossack Fonseca documents show Koji Annan has held several offshore shell companies, using one to purchase a half-million-dollar apartment in central London. A spokesman for Annan said his business was for “normal, legal purposes of managing family and business matters and has been fully disclosed in accordance with applicable laws.”

FAMILY OF NAWAZ SHARIF
PM of Pakistan

For years, Sharif, a longtime presence in Pakistani politics, has had to answer questions about his family’s “riches from a network of businesses that include steel, sugar and paper mills and extensive international property holdings,” ICIJ says. Mossacks’ documents show a series of offshore companies operated by Sharif’s children, Mariam, Hussein and Hasan, including one to hold “a UK property each for use by the family” and others that moved million in assets. Mossack Fonseca resigned from a company Hasan directed in 2007, calling him “a politically exposed person.” The Sharif family did not respond to the ICIJ’s requests for comment.

ARKADY AND BORIS ROTENBERG
Lifelong friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin

The billionaire brothers grew up with Putin and have benefited richly from his turns as Russia’s president and prime minister. The U.S. has sanctioned their wealth over alleged corruption, particularly allegations they profited over contracts from the 2014 Sochi Olympics. They ran at least seven British Virgin Islands shell companies “involved in everything from investing in a major pipeline construction company… to buying equipment for the construction of an Italian villa in Tuscany for Arkady’s son.”

SERGEY ROLDUGIN
Close persona friend of Putin

Widely known as one of the world’s better cellists, Roldugin has been close to Putin since the 1970s, when the future president worked in the Soviet KGB. Documents show Roldugin owned three shell companies, two of which were funded by a Russian organ that the U.S. government calls “Russia’s ‘personal bank for senior officials.'” Through those companies, Roldugin appears to hold significant shares of Kamaz, Russia’s largest truckmaker, and a major state media corporation.

IAN CAMERON
Father of David Cameron

The father of Great Britain’s current Conservative Prime Minister died in 2010, having amassed a fortune in smart investments. According to the documents, “Cameron helped create and develop Blairmore Holdings Inc. in Panama in 1982 and was involved in the investment fund until his 2010 death.” Blairmore was valued at $20 million in 1998 and was promoted to investors in brochures as “not liable to taxation on its income or capital gains.” The promotional literature added that Cameron’s fund “will not be subject to United Kingdom corporation tax or income tax on its profits.”
 
Mossack – Fonseca: 40 años de vender secretos

por Redacción AN abril 3, 2016 12:50 pm

Archivos muestran lista de clientes que incluye a narcotraficantes, miembros de la mafia, políticos corruptos, evasores de impuestos y delitos generalizados.


Por Martha M. Hamilton, con aportes de: Rigoberto Carvajal, Emilia Díaz-Struck, Cecile Schillis-Gallego, Mar Cabra, Mago Torres y Sol Lauría

Mossack Fonseca es una firma panameña que durante 40 años ha vendido servicios financieros basados en la secrecía, incluso para clientes que han resultado ser delicuentes, miembros de las mafias, narcotraficantes, políticos corruptos y evasores de impuestos.

El Consorcio Internacional de Periodismo de Investigación (ICIJ, por sus siglas en inglés) obtuvo 11 millones de documentos que revelan el funcionamiento de Mossack Fonseca desde 1977 hasta 2015, los cuales hablan sobre propiedades offshore de individuos y compañías de más de 200 países.

Hoy, es considerado uno de los cinco mayores proveedores de secreto offshore en todo el mundo. Tiene más de 500 empleados y colaboradores en más de 40 oficinas alrededor del mundo, incluyendo tres en Suiza y ocho en China.http://aristeguinoticias.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mossack-Fonseca-Map_d7_Spanish.jpg



Gráfico: factcheckargentina

Las raíces

La empresa Mossack Fonseca nació en 1986, cuando Ramón Fonseca y Jürgen Mossack (panameño de origen alemán) juntaron sus firmas de abogados.



Fonseca nació en Panamá en 1952 y estudió derecho y ciencia política en la Universidad de Panamá y la London School of Economics.

En su juventud, recordó una vez, quería salvar el mundo, primero quiso ser sacerdote y luego trabajó durante cinco años para las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

“No salvé nada, no logré ningún cambio”, dijo en una entrevista televisiva en 2008. “Entonces decidí, ya un poco más maduro, dedicarme a mi profesión, tener una familia, casarme y vivir una vida normal… Al envejecer, uno se vuelve más materialista”.

Por otro lado, Mossack nació en Alemania en 1948. Se mudó a Panamá con su familia a principios de la década de 1960.

El padre de Mossack fue miembro de la Waffen-SS, el brazo armado del Partido Nazi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, según archivos de inteligencia del Ejército de Estados Unidos obtenidos por ICIJ.

Los archivos de inteligencia dicen que el padre de Mossack acabó estableciéndose en Panamá, donde se ofreció como espía de la CIA, ante la actividad comunista en Cuba.

Tras conseguir un título de derecho en Panamá en 1973, el hijo de Mossack trabajó como abogado en Londres. Después regresó a su país para abrir la firma que terminaría convirtiéndose en Mossack Fonseca & Co.

Hoy, los socios fundadores se mueven en los círculos más altos de la sociedad panameña.

Además de ser un abogado, Fonseca es un novelista galardonado. Entre sus libros está “Mister Politicus”, un thriller político que, según dice su sitio web literario, “articula el complicado proceso que funcionarios inescrupulosos emplean para ganar poder y lograr sus detestables ambiciones”.

Fonseca conoce el mundo de la política por su trabajo, pues hasta hace poco era asesor del presidente panameño Juan Carlos Varela.

A principios de marzo Fonseca anunció que se tomaba un descanso de esa posición, luego de alegatos de corrupción en la oficina de la firma en Brasil. Tomó ese paso, según dijo, “para defender mi honor, a mi firma y a mi país”.

Las propiedades de Mossack, según los archivos obtenidos por ICIJ, incluyen una plantación de tecas (un tipo de madera) y otros terrenos, un helicóptero ejecutivo, un yate llamado Rex Maris y una colección de monedas de oro.

Abriéndose camino en el mundo

Mossack Fonseca llegó en un momento difícil en la historia de Panamá. El país enfrentaba inestabilidad política y económica bajo la dictadura del militar Manuel Noriega, quien llamaba estaba envuelto en lavado de dinero y narcotráfico.

En 1987, con una Panamá ensombrecida, Mossack Fonseca dio su primer gran paso en el extranjero, estableciendo una sucursal en las Islas Vírgenes Británicas, que años antes había pasado una ley que facilitaba establecer compañías offshore sin revelar públicamente a los dueños y directores.



Foto del ministro de Finanzas de las Islas Vírgenes, Orlando Smith, con representantes de Mossack Fonseca, en septiembre 2012.

“Mossack Fonseca fue la primera en venir de Panamá a las Islas Vírgenes Británicas, y otros le siguieron”, dijo en 2014 Rosemarie Flax, una veterana directora de Mossack Fonseca.

Hoy, las Islas Vírgenes Británicas albergan a cerca de 40 por ciento de las compañías offshore del mundo.

Cuentos del Pacífico Sur

En 1994 Mossack Fonseca cambió la historia de la diminuta nación de Niue, una isla del Pacífico Sur con menos de 2 mil habitantes, al ayudar a cambiar la legislación que permitía las compañías offshore.
 
Vamos a ver...Si España no consideraba desde el 2011 a Panamá como paraiso fiscal porque había colaboración de información....¿Nos tenemos que creer que ésto no se sabía hasta ahora?

¿Nos toman por idiotas? ¡Por Dios! Por eso no quieren el acceso de gente nueva en política, para poder seguir tapando escándalos y chanchullos. ¡Que asco!
 
Después salen que los ciudadanos hemos vivido por encima de nuestras posibilidades y nos culpan con la crisis....panda de chorizos y encima los gobiernos los protegen.
 
y después salen también y dicen que los refugiados quieren vivir por encima de sus posibilidades a nuestra costa.............cuando está ahí bien claro quién está y cómo dando dinero al ISIS.....los super amiguitos de Europa y sus mandatarios, sobre todo de los nuestros......
 
y después salen también y dicen que los refugiados quieren vivir por encima de sus posibilidades a nuestra costa.............cuando está ahí bien claro quién está y cómo dando dinero al ISIS.....los super amiguitos de Europa y sus mandatarios, sobre todo de los nuestros......

¿te podrías explayar un poco más, por favor?
no lo pongo en duda, pero no he tenido el tiempo de ver la info- de los enlaces en detalle. gracias.
 
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