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vanessa ogle

@vanessahistory

In a longer segment, I would have talked abt other issues arising from the #PandoraPapers 🧵. ICIJ's work is remarkable. As someone who spends time w descriptions of obfuscated legal vehicles for holding assets, I assure you their reconstruction of stories is a major feat. But:

https://twitter.com/vanessahistory/status/1445394075763580935

The focus on personalities, while certainly necessary in some part to get people interested and talking, obscures other essential points. For one, we need to talk about the enablers-tax lawyers, bankers etc-about the striking similarity of strategies and tactics they adopted...

100 years ago and now. Of course, as one WaPo piece on the Pandora leak describes, the out-of-State NYC lawyer went to Alaska and wrote the trust law that turned A into a trust tax haven, working with legislators to get necessary measures through. In the early 1920s, Zurich...

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Neo4j

@neo4j

The courageous journalists of the @ICIJorg just published a gigantic piece of work — the #PandoraLeaks.

🧐 Let’s explore the Pandora Papers with @mesirii.

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#neo4j #graphdatabase

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How many documents were explored in the #PandoraPapers?

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Let’s investigate the data of the "Power Players" — those illustrious figures that the @ICIJorg chose to highlight. okt.to/L8Q39U

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Anonymous Operations

@AnonOpsSE

As we can see now, the #PandoraPapers investigation began to show results even before it was published. #PandoraLeaks

Of the 50 largest leaders and influential figures studied by the ICIJ, attention is drawn to Putin's closest ally Timchenko. #PandoraLeaks #PandoraPapers

Shortly before the release of the global investigation, Mark Getway of the Russian gas company Novatek, which Timchenko partially owns, was arrested in Florida for hiding $ 93 million offshore. #PandoraLeaks #PandoraPapers

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DonSMKafeero

@sdkafeero

Uganda's Security Minister Jim Muhwezi owned and held shares in two shell companies according to the #PandoraPapers #PandoraLeaks. In February 2015, Muhwezi became one of three shareholders of the British Virgin Islands company Audley Holdings Ltd. 1/

The company’s directors authorized it to manage bank accounts in Europe. In 2015, an Israeli businessman sued Muhwezi’s co-shareholders in a Ugandan court, disputing the transfer of shares in a similarly-named company, Audley Ltd, which owns two casinos in Uganda.2/

Regulators closed Audley Holdings Ltd. in 2016 for failing to pay registration fees. But in 2018, the Panamanian law firm Alcogal, which set up the company, reported Audley Holdings and its shareholders, including Muhwezi, to BVI regulators in a suspicious...3/

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NewsBytes

@NewsBytesApp

In a shocking development, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Reliance ADAG chief Anil Ambani, Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw have been named, along with over 300 Indians who have hidden their wealth in offshore accounts, according to Pandora Papers. #PandoraLeaks
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) exposed the 'Pandora Papers'—the largest offshore data leak—which has reportedly revealed the assets of over 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders, 300 public officials, among others. #PandoraPapers

The leak includes 11.9mn leaked files from 14 global firms. These firms had established as many as 29,000 off-the-shelf companies & private trusts in "tax havens" like Panama, Dubai, Monaco, Switzerland, & the Cayman Islands & countries such as Singapore, New Zealand, & US.

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mmnjug™

@mmnjug

As Uhuru Kenyatta mounted a political comeback by campaigning against corruption, his family’s secret fortune was growing offshore, a massive new leak shows. bit.ly/3mCKAlR - @ICIJorg

#PandoraPapers
#PandoraLeaks

Uhuru along with his mother, sisters and brother, have for decades shielded wealth from public scrutiny through foundations and companies in tax havens, including Panama, with assets worth $30M+, according to records obtained by @ICIJorg and shared with 600+ reporters, media orgs

The records – from the Panamanian law firm Aleman, Cordero, Galindo & Lee (Alcogal) – show that the family owned at least seven such entities, two registered anonymously in Panama and five in the British Virgin Islands. bit.ly/3mCKAlR - @ICIJorg

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mmnjug™

@mmnjug

Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak The #PandoraPapers reveal the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else. bit.ly/3a4Fqcq by @ICIJorg

Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, 330+ politicians and public officials in 91 countries and territories, and a global lineup of fugitives, con artists, murderers.

The secret documents expose offshore dealings of the King of Jordan, the presidents of Ukraine, Kenya and Ecuador, the prime minister of the Czech Republic and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. bit.ly/3a4Fqcq by @ICIJorg

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Roznama Lifafa

@RoznamaLifafa

THREAD on Pandora Papers from Pakistan’s retired military

Raja Nadir Pervez, a retired army Lt. colonel and ex gov minister, owned Int’l Finance & Equipment Ltd, a BVI reg. co

In leaked files, his firm is involved in machinery & related businesses in India

#ICIJ #PandoraLeaks

Lt. Gen. (R) Shafatullah Shah who happened to be ex military secretary of Gen. Pervez Musharraf and has an offshore company called Talha Limited. BVI.

Talha Limited is registered in the British Virgin Islands

Major General (R) Nusrat Naeem who was former ISI DG Counter Terrorism registered a company offshore shortly after his retirement

The retired Major General shipped out money and parked his assets offshore soon after retirement

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