It is a bang: an information leak unprecedented scale letterbox of politicians and celebrities are blown around the world. Among several current or former heads of state
The facts:. The ” Süddeutsche Zeitung “scored controversial data on financial transactions internationally known personalities leaked. An enormous data leak did not disclose transactions by 215,000 letterbox companies. The data indicate, according NDR, which is in a research collaboration with the “SZ”, the financial operations of a total of 140 politicians and senior officials from around the world open. Overall, were to be found in the documents, the names of twelve acting and former heads of state.
- What is a shell company and ? what it is used
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a shell company is a company at its registered office (for example, Panama) only a mailbox – so a postal address – maintains. The management shall take place elsewhere. The company benefits therefore of some lax laws in countries like Panama, the Cayman Islands or Jersey.
Most try entrepreneurs so, both the to disguise actual location and ownership. In part, this is done for tax purposes (including tax), partially due to criminal transactions (eg. Arms trade) or because the owners simply want to hide their assets and their businesses.
By letterbox companies can build a complex corporate construct that can not be controlled or by looking through tax. Such companies also adhesion can for example deal.
. 1 Petro Poroshenko
June 2014, Petro Poroshenko is President of Ukraine. He went up to the promise to overthrow the oligarchs – to which he himself belonged. The cornerstone of his business empire put Poroshenko as chocolate maker. Meanwhile, among his Roshen Group also media and defense company and the International Investment Bank. During the election campaign he announced that the Group for sale in the event of an election victory. He would take care of the welfare of the country alone, he said at the time of the “Bild” newspaper
Now the so-called Panama Papers to demonstrate that Poroshenko precisely at the height of the war in his country -. In late summer 2014 – the creation of a shell company was initiated. The reported the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”.
Two months after his election victory was for the president, who is also commander of the Ukrainian Army, the Prime Asset Partners Limited was founded and based in the British Virgin Islands. On September 1, the formalities had become settled – coinciding with the great battle of Ilovaisk, where hundreds of Ukrainians died. The press office of the president informed the “SZ” on request with Prime Asset Partners Limited was “part of the process” to convert Poroschenkos assets into a trust.
. 2 Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson
2008 Iceland slid into a financial crisis, during which collapsed all three major commercial banks of the country. In this crisis, the political rise of Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson began – in the grassroots movement “InDefence”. Since May 2013 he is Prime Minister of the country
In this context, the recent revelations in the Icelandic population for particularly great indignation worry. Because according to the Panama Papers should Gunnlaugsson possessed by the end of 2009, with its present wife a letterbox company have, inter alia, bonds important Icelandic banks were deposited. Wintris Inc., registered in the British Virgin Islands
comes from a 2010 published by Wikileaks list shows that Wintris was also one of the creditors of the collapsed Kaupthing Bank, the company is also to claims against the Landsbanki have had and have, according to a source owned bonds issued by Glitnir, the third broke bank. The reported the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”.
A now published email to prove that Gunnlaugsson and his former partner each hold half of the shares Wintris. In 2009 he was elected to Parliament. According to a then newly enacted regulation had deputies companies in which they hold more than 25 percent, report. Gunnlaugsson reported according to the report nothing – and sold at the end of his half of the company for a dollar to his future wife. Even when he became prime minister in 2013, he did not put the open conflict of interest – even though he was involved as such, negotiations that affected creditors’ interests. Just last year he went in this context a controversial deal a.
The names of the Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson and the Interior Minister Olöf Nordal should appear in the papers.
. 3 King Salman
King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz took the crown in January 2015 from his late half-brother Abdullah – the age of 79 years. Also it should, according to the Panama Papers offshore companies owned or hear.
4. Mahmut Ahmadinejad, former President of Iran
In the papers, the names of persons are to be found, which have been occupied by the United States or the European Union sanctions. As the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported to some companies the Iranian state owned and have been allegedly used to circumvent the sanctions for global oil transactions. As an employee of the firm Mossack Fonsec had inquired after the owner discreption the company, answered a colleague from London, it was Mahmut Ahmadinejad.
. 5 Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his sons and his daughter
As the “Indian Express” reported possess Hussain and Nasan Nawaz Sharif and Mariam Safdar, so the sons and daughter of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, at least four companies in the British Virgin Islands. turn this company included six high-quality properties in London’s Hyde Park. The “Indian Express” continues on, that four of the real estate at Deutsche Bank (Switzerland) SA with a mortgage of 7 million pounds (8.8 million euros) to be occupied, while the Bank of Scotland in part financed the purchase of two more properties have. The prime minister denied such a relationship, his sons and daughters did not want to view the newspaper to comment on the leaks.
. 6 Other politicians
In addition, to find the names of these politicians in the papers, like the British “Guardian” reported:
- Bidzina Ivanishvili , the former Georgian Prime Minister, apparently was the owner of a company in the British Virgin Islands
- Ayad Allawi , former interim prime minister and former vice president of Iraq, is a shareholder of a listed company and a property owner. The cousin of Syrian President Bashar Assad is also present
- Alaa Mubarak , son of former Egyptian president, is listed as the owner of a company
- Six members the British House of Lords
- Eight current and former members of the Chinese Politburo
- It also relates to the new Argentine president, Mauricio Macri , as a former director of a letterbox company, as spanish-language news sites report
- the name of the Russian President Vladimir Putin does not appear in the documents on, but rather many close Putin confidante. They conducted according to the information in recent years under conspiratorial circumstances apparently more than two billion dollars through shell companies and managed this much money out of Russia. Among the key figures in this case belong among others Sergej Roldugin, a renowned cellist, who is considered one of the closest friends of Putin.
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