kustomkarkommando posted:

A lot of things are saying the data includes copies of passports of lots of people so I don't think they are going to dump that wholesale

kustomkarkommando posted:

A lot of things are saying the data includes copies of passports of lots of people so I don't think they are going to dump that wholesale

Redgrendel2001 posted:

At least 2 dozen rich Canadians have been implicated.

Volkerball posted:

what they've released thus far has certain details censored, so i'd imagine they'll do that for everything they release. and i doubt they'll be doing that for 2.6TB worth of files.

Mr Hootington posted:

I'm so impotently angry at this.

Between Unaoil and the Panama Papers I've just about reached my sheer outrage level this week.

I can't wait for the US poo poo. Watch we find out loving Obama and the clintons are on it.

School Nickname posted:

http://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search

It's a searchable database of offshore companies created by country (I think), listing their intermediaries and addresses. Hong Kong and the UK blow everyone out of the water. Ireland also has a large amount of them relatively speaking.

quote:

Potential connection between Mossack Fonseca and the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery Called the "Crime of the Century" the robbery netted £26 million (today approx £79 million) worth of gold bullion, diamonds and cash stolen from a warehouse. Many of the robbery gang were convicted, but the gold has never been recovered.

Now documents within Mossack Fonseca’s files reveal that the law firm and its co-founder, Jürgen Mossack, may have helped the conspirators keep the spoils out of the hands of authorities by protecting a company tied to Gordon Parry, a London wheeler-dealer who laundered money for the Brink’s-Mat plotters."

BadOptics posted:

Every big name in US politics is dirty as gently caress, even Sanders more than likely. The only thing that matters to the public/media is how good they cover their trails and how outrageous the amount of $$$ is.

Redgrendel2001 posted:

So make that The Boys from Brazil, The Big Short, and Heat.

Volkerball posted:

Mr Hootington posted:

Oh yeah I know this. You have to be a bit scummy. It just depends on the level of scum. I do not actually think Sanders, Obama, or even the likes of a Rand Paul would be on this. Clinton, Kissinger, Romney, or Kasich could easily be in here.

Mr Hootington posted:

Oh yeah I know this. You have to be a bit scummy. It just depends on the level of scum. I do not actually think Sanders, Obama, or even the likes of a Rand Paul would be on this. Clinton, Kissinger, Romney, or Kasich could easily be in here.

Grundulum posted:

FYI: Dick Cheney represented Wyoming in Congress way back when.

OldMemes posted:

Julian Assange is going to use this as a chance to be annoying and attention seeking again, isn't he? Dude wishes he was as cool as Ed Snowden.

Scaramouche posted:

So I've not heard of them, can someone give me a pithy, truthy paragraph about the ICIJ? Cynical American attempt to create a partisan wikileaks equivalent? Crusading journalists who care only for truth? Somewhere in between?

Scaramouche posted:

So I've not heard of them, can someone give me a pithy, truthy paragraph about the ICIJ? Cynical American attempt to create a partisan wikileaks equivalent? Crusading journalists who care only for truth? Somewhere in between?

Xae posted:

They have hinted that they will be releasing some US names soon.

Most of the investigators were in Europe, so they released the European names first.

This isn't a conspiracy or some sort of other bullshit. It is a staggered release because the volume of information is massive.

Volkerball posted:

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/716780162403033088

Vermain posted:

I'll scream and hit the ceiling if the name "Clinton" pops up in any capacity.

Vermain posted:

I'll scream and hit the ceiling if the name "Clinton" pops up in any capacity.

TheQuietWilds posted:

I don't think Obama or Sanders have enough money to justify this, but I'm definitely holding out for a good solid Clinton Foundation connection. Maybe some Trump in there too.

Grundulum posted:

Ahem.

Xae posted:

I'll basically guarantee you that every single Republican operative got called into work to ctrl-F Clinton in every document.

TheQuietWilds posted:

I don't think Obama or Sanders have enough money to justify this, but I'm definitely holding out for a good solid Clinton Foundation connection. Maybe some Trump in there too.

AllanGordon posted:

Every event in the world is shaped by America so why should this be any different.

Please never give any agency to non-Americans. They are in the end just puppets to the true rulers of the world.

Mr Hootington posted:

Here is the rest of his $10 billion.


That is a given. Plus the Bushes and the rest of the gang.

I kinda just want to refer to everyone in the documents as bad words.

Any British goons have thoughts on how this could affect Cameron? What happens in still destabilized Ukraine? This thing could be huge if given legs. Which it won't. Just like Unaoil seems to not have legs. Just need to burn it all down.

Vermain posted:

I'll scream and hit the ceiling if the name "Clinton" pops up in any capacity.

quote:

Tony Merchant of Regina, dubbed Canada's class-action king because of the large settlements he has won for his clients, transferred money to a tax haven in the South Pacific and then onward to an account in the Caribbean, according to the files. His wife, Senator Pana Merchant, as well as their three sons are named in the documents as beneficiaries of the funds.

...

All along, the documents show, the high-profile Prairie lawyer sought to keep the investments secret.

"Keep correspondence to a minimum," reads a note placed on his Cook Islands account that warned only to communicate with Merchant by airmail. "Do not fax to client. He will have a stroke."

Another note discusses Merchant's reaction when told his holdings in Luxembourg would require him to either cough up his identity to officials there, or have all transactions on the mutual funds frozen.

"Received a letter from Mr. Merchant requesting that we do not disclose now or in the future any information to the authorities in Luxembourg, or anywhere," the note on the account reads. "And the [mutual funds] will just remain on a freeze for the foreseeable future."
Mailed thousands in cash

Even the modest annual fees for his offshore accounts would have been impossible to trace back to Merchant: He often paid those expenses by sending cash in the mail from Canada to the South Pacific, prompting a caution from the account administrators.

"We strongly advise, however, that all future payments be made either by cheque or by telegraphic transfer, as we cannot vouch for the security of cash sent through the post," a lawyer wrote to him in 2002.

Merchant didn't heed the warning, though. Documents show he mailed cash and traveller's cheques in ensuing years to pay the roughly $2,000 in annual charges.
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The Merchant trust was administered in this building in the capital of the Cook Islands. (CBC)

"The less innocent explanation is that this particular individual did not want to have any record maintained at all of this payment," said professor and lawyer Art Cockfield, an expert on international tax at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., to whom CBC showed the documents.

"There may be an innocent explanation for all this. But boy, in my mind that does raise some serious red flags."

"If you want to move money around the world without onshore regulators or officials understanding that you're behind the wire transfer, you set up a bank, you set up an account at Lines Overseas Management — they use very strict standards of confidentiality," said lawyer Martin Kenney, a specialist in tracing international assets who runs a firm in another offshore haven, the British Virgin Islands.

"This would be an excellent way to do it without Revenue Canada, or anyone in Canada, being able to discern who is this unidentified beneficiary," added Kenney, who was shown the files but without revealing Merchant's identity.

C-SPAN Caller posted:

Probably Trump too, and I'd imagine the DNC will start ctrl+f'ing republicans too.

Volkerball posted:

I wouldn't hold my breath. Shady relationships with lobbyists, sure. Outright corruption including shell companies and illegal activity in offshore accounts to the tune of millions of dollars? That's a hell of an escalation. I really don't think you can get away with that kind of thing in the US as a politician these days, and I doubt many are eager to see if they can get away with it. There might be some lobbyists from corporations wrapped up in it though.

Volkerball posted:

I wouldn't hold my breath. Shady relationships with lobbyists, sure. Outright corruption including shell companies and illegal activity in offshore accounts to the tune of millions of dollars? That's a hell of an escalation. I really don't think you can get away with that kind of thing in the US as a politician these days, and I doubt many are eager to see if they can get away with it. There might be some lobbyists from corporations wrapped up in it though.

Scaramouche posted:

Jeeze Louise I'm not even an American and someone upthread said they're funded by USAID so I wanted to find out more.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

People act like anyone will actually get in trouble for any of this.

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Currently my wild pipe dream is like the Russian business elite orphan child abduction rape scheme will show up through something similar for Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, connected to that plane trip that totally didn't happen.