Once again, a massive data leak is showing the offshore tax actions of the world’s wealthy elites.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which had also organized the publication of the Paradise Papers and the Panama Papers, named the leak the Pandora Papers.
Colombian singer Shakira, Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias, and former German top model Claudia Schiffer are among those accused this time.
A total of 336 politicians, both former and current, have been linked to offshore money as a result of the revelation. Ukraine and Russia were the most common countries of origin, although they also came from a mixture of Latin American and African countries.
The United Kingdom was the only European country to make the top ten list of countries with the most politicians mentioned in the report. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is one of them, and others will be announced in the following days.
Around a dozen current heads of state appear in the leak, according to a constantly updated list on Wikipedia, including King Abdullah II of Jordan, the Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid, as well as the presidents of Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Kenya, Ecuador, Gabon, Chile, the Ukraine, and the Republic of the Congo. Those linked to offshore money havens include the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Lebanon, and Qatar’s emir.
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