So just last week, we had one of the largest corruption scandals EVER (Unaoil). This week we have the largest dataleak ever. This dataleak involves corruption, the mafia, heads of state, etc. This dwarfs anything done by wikileaks, cablegate, etc. Over 2.6TB (11.5 million documents) detailing how shell companies have been set up to funnel money and covers a period from 1970 to 2016. THese shell companies were used for tax evation, laundering of money from corruption and how politicians use it to hide their ties to various corportations. Supposedly it involves a quarter of Icelands cabinet, FIFA, 8 or 9 senior chinese politicians plus possibly the current Chinese Premier (Xi Jinping).
The leak is SO big it is being handled by over 400 journalists from a variety of papers in europe (and possibly elsewhere I haven't seen a list of all of the journalists involved):
http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/...b8d3c3495adf4/
Slowly but surely more and more summaries will be release, the first one discuses the Iceland (called Storm Brewing). So far, no signs of involvement of American politicians or businessmen. Pretty much all around us though the UK, Mexico, etc. Loads of countries you expect (Putin's off-shore network to funnel money from corruption for example).
This page from ICIJ lists some of the power players:
https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/
Honestly, I am still trying to wrap my head around this.
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